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Richard Jones at Pension PlayPen today? Yes please!
How good it is to have someone I want to see , doing the promoting on his social feed! and then see it again? But you could stick with your local blog The meeting will be all the more pertinent … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, Government, Nick Jones, pension playpen, Pensions, TPR
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An AI bubble popping? The FT expect one, I want a pension not a pot!
Not one but two pension journalists pick up the cudgels and go for Artificial Intelligence as a bubble to blow up. This of course matters to most British savers who are invested in the USA, in the 7 mega stocks … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, CDC, DWP, ft, kirk, Mary Macdougall, McDougall, Nasdaq, National Employment Savings Trust, NEST
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We don’t need austerity, we need to invest and grow
Martin Woolf has produced an econium to growth and posted it in the FT. People care about their standard of living. Democracy is simply far stronger if it is possible for everybody to become better off. Growth provides that. … Continue reading
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Tagged #pensions, Business, Ecopnium, Employment, Government, growth, Investment, Martin Woolf, pension, Pensions, Tax, Treasury, workplace Pensions
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CDC – we “stand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start”.
I am pleased with the news that Parliament will have legislation set before it on Thursday tomorrow, which will allow the CDC on a whole of life basis to go ahead. A consultation about at retirement CDC will follow shortly. … Continue reading
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Tagged AgeWage, annuity, Business, CDC, Con Keating, dc, pension, TPR, workplace Pensions
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A big question of Commonwealth emerges in our pension investment
The FT examines the empathy between Canada and British investment of pension schemes. In an article this morning with London’s Mary McDougall and Ilya Gridneff in Toronto Like the UK, Canada has been examining how to channel more pension assets to … Continue reading
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Tagged Australia, Business, Canada, Commonwealth, DWP, Financial services, ft, pension playpen, Pensions, Retirement, USA
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Empathy not sympathy with wanting “cash now pension later”!
My normal readership on Linked in is 40,000. Tom McPhail added nearly 5,000 to the number. It’s great that Tom can write in a way that gets people reading but I suspect that when that subtle grin appears upon that … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, corporate governance, corporate risk, dc pensions, Defined benefit pension plan, DWP
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Sweden – a better model for British financial services and our private pensions?
Sweden, a welfare system that works and is affordable. A funded pension system that is forward looking and a country that is proud of the financial services it delivers to its population. To me, Sweden is a better model for … Continue reading
Warning – advert – but a good one – from down under!
I’m interested in how Australia is working out “value for money” as millions of Australians move towards a retirement (epic or otherwise). Here is a rare advert for this blog but I am supporting Bec Wilson as she goes to … Continue reading
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Tagged Bec Wilson, Business, Employment, Epic retirement, Pensions, Retirement, VFM
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Are there cuckoos scrambling your (tax-free) pension nest egg?
My friend Johnny Timpson put a thumbs down to an article in the Guardian . Not something that I’d expect; like the snoop I am, I decided to take a look. Here’s the article in the Guardian. Here’s why I … Continue reading
Pension Schemes Bill gets parliamentary evidence from 23 experts
We are at the end of a massive gift of evidence in Parliament If you take a fancy to , you can watch the morning meetings here You can watch the afternoon meetings here There has been a little comment … Continue reading