Monthly Archives: March 2025
Aussie asks how “hands off” saving helps Brits with “hands on” pensions!
Set & Forget? The Trap of Hands-Off Savings Leading to Hands-On Retirement Jim Hennington Combining behavioural science with an understanding of quantitative finance techniques is critical for any retirement planning system. Australia has a compulsory retirement savings system. In the … Continue reading
Disgraceful reporting of “Royal Mail pension pot”
Fake worries for Royal Mail and its postal workers and pensioners Last week I got a mail along the lines pf the headline above from some journalist and hoped it would not see the light of public distribution. It has … Continue reading
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Pensions have never been more important for the lives we lead.
I know that dashboard techies are bored by legal bores but we are at a point of political agenda with pensions that is critical not just to pensions but to the country and I am going to focus on a … Continue reading
What excites us? Richard Smith and the pensions dashboard do!
Yesterday, to my delight, I heard from Richard Smith, who has taken our interest in pension dashboards into parliament and our pension press. In other articles appearing this week I look at fiduciary investment rules , quoting Eversheds and the … Continue reading
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Can a political investment be “perverse”?
We are lucky to have people who read this blog who have experience beyond our own. I exclude a few and include myself in those for whom 1976-78 was the time of O levels or primary school or (bless you) … Continue reading
A call to arms for UK pensions!
Robert Shrimsley follows on from an article by Mary McDonald which explores how pension schemes could invest in UK defence (rather than let the Treasury cupboard run empty). If the re-arming of Britain is truly the mission it should … Continue reading
Are pensions to save Ukraine? Is defence investment ESG or Mansion House?
The FT has a story on ESG investments which asks questions of fund manager and banks More than 100 Labour MPs and peers have urged British banks and fund managers to stop viewing all defence investments as “unethical”, as they … Continue reading
The sorry tale of a Pension Dashboard – in three episodes from parliament
I have now watched the pension dashboard sessions at Westminster yesterday. If you are wanting to focus on what was good start with the clip below (Kim will know I enjoyed her too!) Do not bother with the second and … Continue reading
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NatWest Cushon set their sights high at the Mansion House
John Greenwood has reported on yesterday’s event at the Mansion House, reported on from the FT and Torsten Bell’s perspective here. It looks that an agreement was in place that set the FT’s Mary McDougall on reporting Torsten Bell and … Continue reading
Tough words from a Pension Minister in the Mansion House
The Pension Minister gave a Mansion House speech of his own yesterday, using the House’s Ballroom thanks to NatWest Cushon and Evershed Sutherland who were sponsoring an event for the great and the good. He seemed to enjoy both events. … Continue reading