Tag Archives: Benchmark

AgeWage launches a free service to benchmark DC workplace pensions

Posted on August 12, 2021 by henry tapper

This is an offer to the trustees and participating employers of the UK’s workplace pensions , inviting you to be part of the AgeWage benchmarking service. The service allows your scheme to compare itself to others, so that you can … Continue reading →

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Why our pensions need a benchmark of everyone!

Posted on July 15, 2021 by henry tapper

This post’s about getting people engaged with their pensions. It is quite technical but I’ve tried to keep it in a language that keeps you interested. I am a firm believer that people will be interested in pensions if you … Continue reading →

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Can we get the IGCs and FCA back on the same track?

Posted on June 9, 2021 by henry tapper

  The FCA’s relationship with workplace pension providers for whom they have oversight (e.g. the providers of group personal pensions and group SIPPs) has clearly deteriorated over the past 15 months, as has its relationship with their Independent Governance Committees … Continue reading →

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2019 was not a year to hedge your bets

Posted on December 29, 2019 by henry tapper

As the decade closes , it’s a time to look back as well as forward. For the vast majority of us, our financial health depends on valuations of assets the price of which we cannot directly control. We may build … Continue reading →

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Con Keating on “Risk and the Management of Investment Portfolios”

Posted on November 18, 2019 by henry tapper

One of the few things that we know about risk is that it means that, over some future period, more things may occur than actually will eventuate. The role of an active asset manager is to seek to determine which … Continue reading →

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“Monkeys redundant” -Con Keating gives the IA a proper kicking

Posted on August 12, 2016 by henry tapper

  The following blog is printed with the kind permission of Con Keating and relates to recent blogs on this site “the charges of the light brigade” and “searching for the Loch Ness Monster“ The strapline to the press release … Continue reading →

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