Tag Archives: Business

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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Hymans Robertson debating pension funding this Morning.

First the advert.. Tuesday (today) 10.30 am event ; free ticket at the bottom of the blog. Having made a mistake and locked myself out of the excellent session led by Pensions for Purpose, I’m not going to do it … Continue reading

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How political can LGPS get! Let’s rid it of localism.

The Andrew Gwynne affair seems to have something to do with pensions, as Michael Crick reports. Tameside runs the Greater Manchester local government scheme, the largest in the UK. The gov want it to invest for growth but local councillors … Continue reading

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Can the LGPS please set out its funding position to ordinary tax-payers.

There is a row in Birmingham between some professors and the executive of Birmingham and it has been a matter for the Birmingham Post. I wrote about it earlier in the year and was sent the paper (which being in … Continue reading

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Right analysis+razor sharp solutions…needed by TPR

  The last 7 days have had me listening for 3 hours to a former executive and the current Chair of TPR and I find myself deflated. Here is a former TPR worker on my comments about David Fairs last … Continue reading

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What’s happening to L&G’s shares matters to our pensions

On Friday, the FT brooked a story which at first site is a bit obscure, concerning Japanese and American businesses. Legal & General has brokered a deal to sell its US insurance business to Japan’s Meiji Yasuda for $2.3bn in … Continue reading

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David Fairs sees a brave new world of DC mega-funds.

  David Fairs is on this week’s VFM podcast and like Sarah Smart he arrived with an agenda that related to pensions, this meant talking about the pension funding question that he’d wrestled with while at the Pensions Regulator and … Continue reading

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Pension Oldie’s punky monkey party

Pension Oldie has been commenting on my blog . If I had an oldie’s party, he’d be my punky monkey. It is my strong belief that a very easy win for UK Economic growth would be a radical re-appraisal of … Continue reading

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Hymans Robertson debating pension funding this Tuesday.

First the advert.. Tuesday 10.30 am event ; free ticket at the bottom of the blog. Having made a mistake and locked myself out of the excellent session led by Pensions for Purpose, I’m not going to do it twice! … Continue reading

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What does Government being a pension disrupter mean for pensions ..?

  “while we are working away, the world is speeding up” –  Starmer at his cabinet meeting on growth. I like Starmer’s statement. Reading the BOE’s report feels like business as usual. The BoE’s latest forecast is that GDP will … Continue reading

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