Monthly Archives: September 2025
Is “Impact Investment” serious? It should be to our pension funds
On Tuesday, we’re having a debate on how we pay for New Towns in the UK. I have been thinking about alternatives to hiking up gilt yields by borrowing from the Exchequer. What’s needed is impact investment and that can … Continue reading
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Tagged Better Society Capital, capital, Con Keating, Robert Gardner, Sir Ronnie Cohen, Thomas Aubrey
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Royal London’s IGC report’s a good audit of 2024; but the customer’s left out!
I am pleased that Royal London have based the purpose of its IGC in Value for Money and hope that this will be the basis not just for commercial insurers active in the workplace and to policyholders but to commercial … Continue reading
Some thoughts on podcasts from Darren and Nico
I write a lot about these podcasts and I’m not quite sure why. I know how many times they get watched and I know how many times my comments on their podcasts get read. It’s not knockout – but I … Continue reading
“Demographic change – hard to grapple with – easy to ignore”
This is good Beyond Curious with LCP · S4 Ep.6 Retirement in an ageing society Stuart McDonald and Steve Webb are on my pod – it’s early on a cold Sunday morning. What are the demographic trends that impact our … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Young, Pension Commission, Steve Webb, Stuart McDonald
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A morning on fire
Red sky in the morning Shepherd’s warning
Could the future for finding and matching pensions be quantum computing?
We can expect from the race between Google and IBM a computer that behaves in a different way to anything we have today by the end of the decade. It will be able to work out what is going on … Continue reading
OFT and IGCs set pensions on a road to VFM – here’s Royal London ever at the fore!
Peter Dorward keeps the flame for IGCs alight Those who have followed this blog will know that I have charted the progress of IGC reports since the 2015 vintage (which were published the April after). At that time the workplace … Continue reading
Is Europe sabotaging Trump’s America?
It is a good thing to wake up to This is why! Our team has done it once and they can do it again and for once we are part of Europe and Europe did it in their opponent’s back … Continue reading
Pension Bee are setting down standards for workplace pensions – help them do it!
There are many things that Pension Bee are doing which are good practice in pensions. I have signed their petition and I hope that you will too. There are hundreds of thousands of people who think of private pensions in … Continue reading
“People more interested in investing in the UK than just in performance”
“When we asked more than 1,000 people with a pension what they thought, we found that they were more interested in more of their pension being invested in the UK than solely in performance.” – New Financial The think tank … Continue reading