Tag Archives: Cushon

Cushon fusion. As part of NatWest will Cushon innovate or replicate?

Posted on February 14, 2023 by henry tapper

Cushon has reached an agreement with NatWest Group for them to acquire a majority shareholding in Cushon.  A minority shareholding (15%) will remain with Ben Pollard, CEO and Founder and other senior management.  Cushon, a great British Fintech The story … Continue reading →

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Collaboration is not a dirty word (according to Cushon and Nest)

Posted on February 12, 2023 by henry tapper

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 →

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Safe harbor proposals for DC transfers to qualifying SIPPs

Posted on July 13, 2022 by henry tapper

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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Can Trustees, SIPPS and lawyers provide DWP with agreed rules on DC transfers?

Posted on July 6, 2022 by henry tapper

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 →

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Here they grow again – Cushon buys Creative – Pension Bee doubles assets in a year!

Posted on January 21, 2022 by henry tapper

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 →

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Should we have a say over the voting of our shares?

Posted on September 22, 2021 by henry tapper

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 →

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Inbox overload?

Posted on April 13, 2021 by henry tapper

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 →

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The pardoner’s tale

Posted on April 10, 2021 by henry tapper

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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Why mandating TCFD reporting is a game changer.

Posted on January 29, 2021 by henry tapper

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 →

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Cushoning our pension pot’s impact on the planet

Posted on January 21, 2021 by henry tapper

  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 →

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