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Collaboration is not a dirty word (according to Cushon and Nest)
News reached us at the end of January that Cushon and Nest are in a joint search for asset management partners to develop new forestry investment strategies to address climate change pressures. We would also like to enjoy a planet … Continue reading
Safe harbor proposals for DC transfers to qualifying SIPPs
With over 70 people on the call, Pension Playpen’s coffee morning – featuring Pension Bee’s Romi Savova was a lively event. Sadly, some of the more vociferous critics of Pension Bee’s complaint to the Minister couldn’t attend but it was … Continue reading
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Tagged Cushon, PensionBee, Pensions, People's Pension, Romi Savova, transfers
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Can Trustees, SIPPS and lawyers provide DWP with agreed rules on DC transfers?
Six years ago, no-one had heard of PensionBee; it was a start-up operating out of a serviced office in the Borough with a handful of staff, a scanner and some very good coders who knew their way around Salesforce. Rather … Continue reading
Here they grow again – Cushon buys Creative – Pension Bee doubles assets in a year!
Cushon have won the race to absorb Creative Benefits and its highly popular master trust. Its blog tells us that the acquisition of Creative doubles Cushon’s sits reach to over 400,000 members and increases AUM (including ISAs) to £1.7bn. Money … Continue reading
Should we have a say over the voting of our shares?
It’s not often that you see a Linked in post that reads like this. But it’s not often that you read a Government paper that is this forthright. There is a gap between demand from clients – which needs to … Continue reading
Posted in Big Government, dc pensions, ESG, stewardship
Tagged Cushon, pension, Simon Howard, Tumelo
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Inbox overload?
I am finding the comments on my recent blogs about lifestyling rather better than the articles I’m writing. Take this caustic gem from Tim Simpson Good Luck to Mr Pursaill, I hope he succeeds in obtaining his desire. However, in … Continue reading
The pardoner’s tale
My fellow Bryanston alumni, Andrew Warwick-Thompson has been flagging the boob made by Mark Carney over “avoided emissions”. This shows the perils of not knowing your offsets from your elbow and proves what a perilous business it is saying anything … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Warwick Thompson, Carbon offsets, Cushon, Farrar, Maria Nazrova-Doyle, TPR
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Why mandating TCFD reporting is a game changer.
The DWP’s proposals to insist that pension schemes set targets and use standard measures to report on the impact of the money they invest makes sense. But like the few radical interventions that work (think auto-enrolment), it is likely to … Continue reading
Cushoning our pension pot’s impact on the planet
No pension scheme has so committed itself to the cause of preventing climate change as Cushon.Ben Pollard told me that it would take me 27 years of recycling my household waste to do as much for the planet as … Continue reading
Pension’s race to net-zero
Tomorrow, employers can choose to participate in a pension plan whose standard investment strategy will decelerate the creation of carbon emissions to zero. This article looks beyond the headline and asks what the impact of this bold move will … Continue reading
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Tagged Ben Pollard, Cushon, ft, josephine cumbo, Salvus, Steve Goddard
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