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Standard Life buys Aegon UK for £2bn – as predicted.
We have had through the morning a stream of announcements from various parties What will this mean for the master trust and dwindling GPP market that Aegon once looked so central to. Scottish Equitable was Aegon before the Dutch bought … Continue reading
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Tagged ABI, Aegon, Lloyds, Royal London, Scottish Widowns, Standard Life
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Common sense should win through and pensions should not repeat past follies
The headline seems a disaster for pensions. The ABI and those preying on open DB pensions, are quick to point to the need to insure away the risk of pension paying people deferred pay in later life. If you had … Continue reading
Running a pension scheme for growth. Does it really have to be this hard?
Being away from the City , I get a perspective on the mood of pension schemes and if pension schemes are at last aware that they and the members of their schemes are being ripped off by buy-out – then … Continue reading
Why the Government must have back-stop control of pension investment
There is a general feeling that UK pension funds should be investing where they want. I agree that they should, but “how they want” is another matter. Right now there is a trend towards investing in American software, notoriously the … Continue reading
Is this the best that the insurance lobby can do?
The insurance lobby have teamed up with Pensions UK and the right wing press to derail the pension schemes bill. They have landed on a Clause 40 which gives any Government the opportunity to demand money is invested for … Continue reading
Pension investment into investment trusts should not be banned
This blog used to be rude about the ABI but they complained and I am very afraid of the ABI so I took the bit about them down. Ros and Sharon are still right!
A smorgasbord of a budget? Could be a bit messy!
Last week was disrupted to a day in UCH under the knife, this week by a train trip to the Isle of Skye and back and next week by the budget. To make it more disruptive, the Pension PlayPen is … Continue reading
ABI’s insurers invested only 0.24% of workplace pensions in Compact assets last year
The ABI have given the market an update of the progress of insurers in the investment of their workplace pensions. This is not quite the good news we might have been expecting. This from the Progress Update the ABI has … Continue reading
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Tagged ABI, Compact, Mansion House, Markets, Pensions, Private Equity, trackers
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Pensions UK and ABI kick off a day of pensions in Parliament
This interesting section that kicks off the day contains the two heavyweights Pensions UK and ABI . Rob Yuille and Zoe Alexander. You can watch it from 9.30 to 9.55 on this link Excuse me for giving my reaction … Continue reading
Can we bring DB back? Not it seems without the permission of the ABI.
For many years we have been led to believe that the only good DB scheme has a bulk annuity inside it and it’s on the way to being bought out. I was in hospital for the shockwaves of Pension IHT … Continue reading