Monthly Archives: March 2025
Why don’t insurance companies like pensions? Find out here.
The VFM podcast,which I follow, this week follows the ABI as they get a new logo,has a 40th birthday and has a conference to tell us what it can do to put Britain to rights. “Engagement” before and after retirement … Continue reading
The Brutalist – a good time to watch the film.
Yesterday I went to my cinema, it is the Curzon underneath the Oxo by the river Thames and it had one performance of the Brutalist that I could go to. My partner is away and I had a wish to … Continue reading
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For millions pensions will be digital – like Collegia today.
Yesterday was about lunching with Nest and spending the day talking to people who helped and help me understand how digital technology. To my amazement, as I lay in bed last night, it came to me that they all had … Continue reading
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Without Nest millions of us would be less ready for tomorrow
I had a pizza, Paul had a vegan pasta , we drank water and coffee. Paul Todd is someone I can’t remember meeting. He remembers meeting me, a lot of my past is forgotten since I had my accident. I … Continue reading
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The future executive of the Pensions Regulator
The Pensions Regulator is an extremely important part of the way private pensions work in the UK. It has some influence on public pensions but is primarily concerned with the auto-enrolment system , the workplace pensions into which we save … Continue reading
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Yeovil Town and W*ymouth – the history of the hatred
A few years back , while watching Yeovil Town play Burnley in the Championship, the chant went up behind us Chim Chiminee, Chim Chiminee Chim Chim cheroo We hate those bastards in claret and blue The Burnley fans were … Continue reading
When it’s easier to pack it in – why some trustees are choosing the PPF
Recently , I have heard of some boards of trustees who have chosen for their scheme to go into the PPF rather than soldier on with the help of an assisted covenant. While the Pensions Regulator claims it is … Continue reading
Thames Water’s latest casualty – Oxford’s blue boat.
Affluence and effluence We had been warned 12 years on from Trenton Oldfield’s unwanted intervention Oxford University’s president admitted in his post race interview to having been struck down by “poo in the water” , leaving him puking that morning. … Continue reading
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BP’s problem is that pensioners never forget.
BP has lost an important legal battle in the United States that will mean 9.000 pensioners will get compensation as a result into being talked into accepting a change into benefit formulation 30 years ago. The parallels with WASPI are … Continue reading
From Monday, everyone over 21 gets a living wage and fair pension contributions
From Monday, millions of low paid people will be getting a pay rise. While the Pension Industry whinges about not getting 12% of salary mandated pension contributions , it should remember that the pots of those who have been auto-enrolled … Continue reading