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Andrew Warwick-Thompson at rest

Yesterday morning and through the lunchtime, we remembered in praise, Andrew Warwick-Thompson Paul went to my school in Dorset. Paul was the younger, there was a story of Clank who taught Latin and memories of tuck brought into the school … Continue reading

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Andrew Warwick-Thompson remembered today

Andrew Warwick-Thompson died in August after a battle with cancer. An announcement on LinkedIn said Andrew had passed away on 19 August. He had been suffering from a rare cancer, peritoneal mesothelioma, which had been diagnosed last summer. The statement said: … Continue reading

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Andrew Warwick-Thompson

It will sadden everyone who read this blog ; Andrew Warwick-Thompson is dead. There are people who don’t use Linked in , so here is the announcement made by someone close to him. Anyone who has been involved in pensions … Continue reading

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For Edi and Andy to do business, DC must grow up.

Let’s put aside all the arguments over how IRRs in the private equity world are calculated and address Edi’s fundamental question “why would private equity managers want to market their services to UK DC pension platforms?”. As Edi Truell is … Continue reading

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Private markets – pension’s friend or foe?

Two articles appeared in the FT over the bank holiday weekend that show just how fractured pension investment strategy over private markets is becoming.   In the one, David Fairs, the Pension Regulator’s policy Director expresses concern that small defined … Continue reading

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Real money and real people need real regulation.

  I am an admirer of Angie Brooks, though my opinion of her is not shared by Andrew Warwick- Thompson of the Pension Regulator. Angie and Andrew see pension scams in different ways. This evening I talked with Angie about … Continue reading

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Pensions Regulator on Pensions Bill (like)

  This blog’s from Andrew Warwick-Thompson who is Policy Director at the Pensions Regulator. As he’s had a lot of say in how the Pensions Schemes Bill was created, I’d expect him to like it. All the same – it’s … Continue reading

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What the Pension Bill means

The 2016  Pensions Bill was published this week and it will have serious implications for single employer occupational schemes, small-mostly insured executive arrangements and for the burgeoning market for commercial mastertrusts. The Bill will also ensure that occupational schemes cannot … Continue reading

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DB Deficits- the real story; the Pension Regulator blogs.

TPR have gone social and set up its own blog; this is blog #1 from Policy Head Andrew Warwick-Thompson. Well done to the tPR and well done to Andrew for this nugget of optimism about Britain’s DB plans. Looking at … Continue reading

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Hughes v Royal London – a sorry state of affairs.

It’s not often that I read a legal judgement in full but that’s what I’ve just done, to understand how Ms Hughes has successfully won a cased which allows her to send her hard earned pension savings to a fund … Continue reading

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