Monthly Archives: May 2025
VFM podcast , Evershed’s Jones, LCP’s Hodder and Oasis reforming.
This blog touches on inter-generational fairness and asks that we look at private pensions as a whole. There are some who consider DB and DB surpluses, some the new stars of the DC world (the Master Trusts) but people did … Continue reading
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Trust in pension “providers”; FCA tell tales of consolidation (pt 9)
There is a lot of advertising budget spent on transferring pots for no reason than name awareness. This annoys those who don’t do it (Patrick Heath-Lay of People’s Pension in particular) as it preys on trust (or lack of it). … Continue reading
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What do Canadians see in Britain that we don’t!
I’ve quoted this headline from Julian Bovill as it is relevant. This is from the FT courtesy of Mary McDougall Canada’s second-largest pension fund plans to invest more than £8bn in the UK over the next five years, in a … Continue reading
Plenty of support, but should we need it to get our pensions paid?
What’s helping people to take decisions is problematic, the question we should be asking “what’s helping people to take the right decision”. In an earlier blog in this series looking at the FCA Financial Lives 2024 survey, it became clear … Continue reading
The chaotic results of “pension freedom” – thanks to Financial Lives. (pt 8)
I had the revelation last week of the source of the 162 slides that I have been working through which form the “pension” part of the FCA’s 2024 Financial Lives report. I have written about how I found out the … Continue reading
You’ve got to pay BIG money to get past the AI doorman!
Yesterday I was frightened I might lose access to my blog, Since 5am I had sat on a customer support line manned by artificial intelligence and promising me prompt attention from a human . After 6 hours staring at a … Continue reading
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My railway , GBR’s new fat controller – the taxpayer.
I look across the Thames this morning, in Windsor and Eton Riverside sits a train. It is not the train it should be, it is not an “Arterio” train, which it should have been by 2019, it is some … Continue reading
First Bus – first rate from Muntazir Hadadi
Muntazir Hadadi (FCA) Head of Pensions at First Bus, supporting colleagues that move the everyday with over a million journeys across the UK… supporting colleagues that move the everyday with over a million journeys across the UK This is … Continue reading
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Is VOX POP on pensions all from “Maison Weir”?
I’m hanging my head as I write this as I am quite sure Janette Weir has reason to laugh in my face and it’s only that she’s kind- that she doesn’t. I’ve started on what , for me , is … Continue reading
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This week passion from Torsten, next week C-Suite’s McGrath
Britain may not have no more passionate supporter of the DB pension continuing, though the DWP and Pension Minister are running him close with this week’s press release insisting that pension schemes that can continue do! Over the past weeks … Continue reading
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