Monthly Archives: May 2025
Sir Nicholas Lyons and Amelia Henning on how pensions can grow Britain
Between 10.30 am and 11.00 am TODAY Tuesday 20th May (next) Nick Lyons will be explaining the opportunity open to those providing retirement benefits to invest in underfunded British companies. Between 11.00 am and 11.30am I have asked Amelia … Continue reading
Sir Nicholas Lyons and Amelia Henning; insurer Chair and CEO
Between 10.30 am and 11.00 am on Tuesday 20th May (next) Nick Lyons will be explaining the opportunity open to those providing retirement benefits to invest in underfunded British companies. Between 11.00 am and 11.30am I have asked … Continue reading
Pension money ready – waiting for a good idea to come along (pt 5)
Continuing my reading of the important bits of the FCA’s Financial Lives Survey. I’ve jumped a detailed inspection of how people react to DC pension statements, I may return to this as it will be more important when dashboards take … Continue reading
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A veteran IFA , an Avatar and a retirement plan.
My friend John Mather is in his 70s but one of the most technologically accomplished of my readers and certainly more experienced , knowledgeable and sophisticated than Pension Plowman! He has had this message for us from his technology, with … Continue reading
Engagement? Say “hello pension” – “goodbye tension”! pt 4
The FCA’s Pension selected items is proving a means to connect to the people beyond our pension expert world. Here the FCA is testing people about their capacity to meet what the financial services industry considers “engagement”. what’s in the … Continue reading
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Are people thinking their retirement income inadequate? (pt 3)
There is a lot of concern from the actuarial class that we are not putting enough money into private pensions to satisfy the needs of the retired, in this section of the FCA 2004 findings on what people think … Continue reading
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Mark Searle’s VFM podcast – well worth listening to.
Mark Searle is not someone I know – but I’d like to! He appears on this VFM podcast and talks with good sense about what is likely to happen to the money we have invested in pensions. He was at … Continue reading
Private medicine? The NHS and sport’ll get me back where I was!
I’d be interested by other people’s experience. My experience of private medicine (self-funded) is mixed. A wonderful consultant from the NHS ( Kapil Sahnan) did a brilliant job but it looks like the the anaesthetic that helped him do … Continue reading
FCA show DB pay pensions – DC pay cash. Is that what we want? Pt 2
Yesterday I referred to the work done by the FCA asking ordinary people how they were expecting to use pensions to pay the bills in retirement. People are taking workplace saving very seriously. But for a pension? The FCA’s … Continue reading
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Sir Nick Lyons and Amelia Henning; where pension money is needed
Between 10.30 am and 11.00 am on Tuesday 20th May (next) Nick Lyons will be explaining the opportunity open to those providing retirement benefits to invest in underfunded British companies. Between 11.00 am and 11.30am I have asked Amelia … Continue reading