Monthly Archives: March 2024
If HSBC’s LTAF is an important step for DC, can we know why?
Annoyingly, I can’t comment on Laura Myers quote as the article is sat behind a paywall. This quote about the launch of a sleeve of illiquids in the HSBC master trust is also from Laura Myers but taken from Pension … Continue reading
The defined benefits of a workplace pension scheme.
In this blog, I explain why offering guaranteed “pensions” is something institutional investors are interested in. There is an opportunity right now to reopen a proposition, all but forgotten – the defined benefit workplace pension. To me, the most interesting … Continue reading
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Larry Fink’s a big banana – and he’s boringly right!
Larry Fink is the top dog at Black Rock, the asset manager that owns a good deal of the world. He is what in “Alex” is known as a “master of the universe” and on this blog as a big … Continue reading
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How Standard Life’s Master Trust could be a world beater.
Over this Easter weekend, Helen Dean, former CEO of Nest and one of the architects of auto-enrolment, will take over as Chair of Standard Life’s Master Trust. Big challenge 1.0 She can look back at this statement, made when she … Continue reading
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Thames Water – a punchy and pun-free assessment for its pensioners.
An annoying feature of almost every report on Thames Water is the intentional puns on “liquidity” and many derivatives of the “fluidity” of the situation. Actually – these jokes are both tiresome and annoying so I’m going to try … Continue reading
Something to look forward to – after Easter ; Keating and Clacher live and dangerous
Firstly we would like to say “Happy Easter” to all Pension Playpen members and we thank you for your continued support! Secondly in light of the Easter weekend we would like to remind you of our next online event next … Continue reading
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BP silent as parliament speaks for their pensioners.
The BP pensioners are getting no response from BP and are asking “is this breaching BP’s Code of Conduct?” It has been argued on social media that the BP Pensioner Group should take BP and its pension trustees to court. … Continue reading
Ground rents and the fiction of “pensioner as victim”.
Yesterday I railed about the capture of the pensioner to justify the shocking abuse of the ground rent system. It seems there are many of the same mind, not least Charles Payne I’m not – in this blog – … Continue reading
Australia ponders the soft-default to turn pots to pensions
This blog is courtesy of Jim Hennington, my source of all things good going on in Australian . He works with Optimum Pensions. Consultation on the retirement phase of superannuation In the latest December 2023 Treasury Discussion Paper that considers … Continue reading
No DAP- just a good queue. Are we being staged or played?
It was suggested , I comment on the Ministerial press release that accompanied the grand unveiling of the DWP’s guidance setting out the connection timetable for auto-enrolment. As this “guidance” itself has introduces nothing by way of “deadlines”, it has … Continue reading