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“Monkeys redundant” -Con Keating gives the IA a proper kicking
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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Tagged Benchmark, charges, Con Keating, costs, Fees, first actuarial, Governnace, investments, monkey league, Monkeys, pensions, stock lending
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Con Keating on the Investment Association, Transparency and the Overton Window
Regular readers will be aware of my views on independent oversight of fund costs and charges. To me it’s critical to a reliable measure for Value for Money; without knowing we are getting value for money, how can we have … Continue reading
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Tagged Con Keating, costs, Costs and charges, Overton window, pension, pensions, Prison, reputation, Transparency, Transparency Task Force, TTF
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Con Keating on “What They Do with Your Money”
Review of What They Do with Your Money How the Financial System Fails Us and How to Fix It. Stephen Davis, Jon Lukomnik, and David Pitt-Watson Yale University Press ISBN 978-0-300-19441-8 The authors have grand ambitions for this book in … Continue reading
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A man on a mission – a man with a vision
Nigel Wilson is becoming a hero of mine. The CEO of Legal &General was on Wake up to Money this morning (24th Feb) and I’m about to download the podcast to listen to him again. I like the man’s common sense … Continue reading
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Tagged Ann richards, Con Keating, Daniel Godfrey, Force for Good, Infrastructure, John Kay, Nigel Wilson, Otto Thoresen, Salford, Terry Smith
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What will we remember 2016 for? The Pension PlayPen lunch
The Pension Play Pen lunch group has met every month since December 2008 and is something of an institution at the Counting House. It’s a chance for advisers, pension managers , investment gurus and harmless idiots like me, to spend … Continue reading
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How to spend your pension -a further blog from Con Keating
If you haven’t read Con’s three previous blogs on this subject (which IMO form the most lucid contribution to the decumulation debate so far) – search Con Keating in the search box at the top of this page. … Continue reading
Con Keating on the future of CDC – (pt 3)
This is the third of three blogs from Con which will in future appear in Professional Pensions. The idea that individual DC will produce pension outcomes that are satisfactory for the majority of retirement savers is now thoroughly discredited, as is … Continue reading
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Tagged CDC, Con Keating, decumulatioin, default, defaults, Money, Retirement
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Why costs and fees matter – guest blog from Con Keating
This week I’m featuring a number of articles by my friend and mentor Con Keating. You may not understand all of this as it is written for a specialist audience (too rarified for me at times!). But the bottom line … Continue reading
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Tagged Con Keating, Costs and Feesm FCA, TPR, Transparency Task Force, TTF, workplace Pensions
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More from Con Keating on how to spend your retirement pot ( no holds barred)
The very description of DC retirement savings arrangements as pensions is a gross abuse of the English language, as a pension is an income in retirement. Without a mechanism for converting the invested savings assets into income cash flows they … Continue reading