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“Chapeau Cushon” – truly consolidating Workers Pension Trust
“Chapeau” Cushon What Cushon has achieved in merging Workers Pension Trust into the Cushon trust is truly outstanding and sets the benchmark for consolidators going forward. According to its press release we learn that the consolidation – an intra-group merger … Continue reading
The future for LTAFs looks grim.
Sales of LTAFs aren’t going well and this doesn’t bode well for both the Conservative and Labour party’s plans to put our long-term savings to work for the good of the country. This week we learn that sales of LTAFs … Continue reading
Cushon fusion. As part of NatWest will Cushon innovate or replicate?
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
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
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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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To properly understand what people want with the money they allow to be taken from pay, we have many surveys…