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Untapped pension? Release it today – join here (gratis)!
I have seldom been so excited to be chairing one of our papers as today. the boys have been with us before but not with the excellent paper they have put forward. Hymans’ paper is attracting attention at the highest … Continue reading
Big clubs and big pensions are winners – but we don’t all support them!
My generation is reaching the end of pension politics. Mark Rowlands was my Friends Provident broker consultant when I was at Gissings in the early 1990s. He’s hanging up his clogs for the final time shortly having eked out his … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, DWP, National Employment Savings Trust, Pension new, Pension Regulator, Pensions, Retirement
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Welcome Scotland – goodbye Culloden
Those familiar with these things will recognise my Partick correspondent talking to the Pensions Minister. He’s chuffed as he should be – few people achieved what he has done for the PPF. I have been thinking of the exercise of … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, DWP, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, Retirement, Steve Webb
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Are older men choosing to behave better or being taught by wives?
Our Covid friend, Stuart McDonald is back with better news (especially for men). Men may be choosing to live better or it may be that women are teaching them how to look after themselves. I would like to think it’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, CDC, corporate governance, DWP, Pensions, Retirement
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Defending the defenceless is ethical; the money’s in my pension fund!
The FT, like the Telegraph, are keen to talk up the adamant attitude of People’s Pension and Nest to run ethical funds that do not invest in defence stocks. This despite calls from 100 Labour MPs to increase fund investment … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, defence, DWP, Financial services, ft, Government, Mark Carney, National Employment Savings Trust, NEST, pension, Pensions, politics, workplace Pensions
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Benefits are one thing, pensions are quite another.
Mark Pemberthy is a benefits guy, has been for decades and he’s one of the auto-enrolment guys who in has been an LBG financial adviser and since auto-enrolment got done has got into communicating benefits for clients who can afford … Continue reading
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Tagged auto enrolment, Business, Investment, National Employment Savings Trust, TPR, Treasury
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Nest’s a trust based pension – not a building society (says Todd)
Why am I wasting my time watching VFM stuff when I could be watching Nest’s Paul Todd about turning Nest into a pension. I don’t know this guy but I know people who do and so I’m going … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, Business and Economy, dc pensions, National Employment Savings Trust, Pension new, Pensions, Retirement
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If only we had a Pensions Regulator as interesting as Sarah Smart.
I was speaking yesterday with a journalist who is interested in the future of TPR and the rating I gave its current Chair Sarah Smart. Let me clarify, I think that Sarah has done all she could and for almost … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, DWP, Employment, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, Pensions, Retirement, TPR
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Why are local LGPS costs so mad? – Toby Nangle explains!
At some stage over the emotional past three days, I submitted an attempt to win a WTW journalistic award. I know I won’t win it but I do think that people who make an effort to explain themselves , have … Continue reading
Backdrop for 2025 DB valuations.
I am sorry not to have made it! I was pressing away on my iPhone as the Queen Elizabeth train took me up from Slough to Farringdon in London. But it would not obey my instructions. Thankfully, I have the … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, Business and Economy, Con Keating, DWP, Financial services, hymans, Jones, McLaren, Pensions
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