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Truell’s impact – restoring a vision for pensions.
Prepared for a new era? I feel that the last five months of my life have been preparing me and the pension scheme I represent, Pension SuperHaven for a very different pension system. The very different pension system I believe … Continue reading
See the ability of the pension dashboard with Sara Weller!
If I had anything to do with the production of this video, I’d be pretty proud of myself and what I’ve done. I don’t have any pride for producing it but I’m proud that , since it’s on you tube, … Continue reading
Big clubs and big pensions are winners – but we don’t all support them!
My generation is reaching the end of pension politics. Mark Rowlands was my Friends Provident broker consultant when I was at Gissings in the early 1990s. He’s hanging up his clogs for the final time shortly having eked out his … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, DWP, National Employment Savings Trust, Pension new, Pension Regulator, Pensions, Retirement
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DO NOT READ THS REPORT – If you think nothing is going to change.
At yesterday’s Pension PlayPen coffee morning we had the forward thinking Julius Pursaill talking about fiduciary responsibilities. There was frustration in the room, we were talking about a world which was not changing. It was before the publication of Hymans … Continue reading
Welcome Scotland – goodbye Culloden
Those familiar with these things will recognise my Partick correspondent talking to the Pensions Minister. He’s chuffed as he should be – few people achieved what he has done for the PPF. I have been thinking of the exercise of … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, DWP, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, Retirement, Steve Webb
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Are older men choosing to behave better or being taught by wives?
Our Covid friend, Stuart McDonald is back with better news (especially for men). Men may be choosing to live better or it may be that women are teaching them how to look after themselves. I would like to think it’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, CDC, corporate governance, DWP, Pensions, Retirement
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Defending the defenceless is ethical; the money’s in my pension fund!
The FT, like the Telegraph, are keen to talk up the adamant attitude of People’s Pension and Nest to run ethical funds that do not invest in defence stocks. This despite calls from 100 Labour MPs to increase fund investment … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, defence, DWP, Financial services, ft, Government, Mark Carney, National Employment Savings Trust, NEST, pension, Pensions, politics, workplace Pensions
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Pension Dashboard may be delayed to 2027 or beyond.
The People’s Pension calls for delay to pension dashboard I wrote yesterday about my concern that concerns about agreed formats to help ordinary people organise their retirement income in retirement using the Pensions Dashboard were being challenged by TISA for … Continue reading
If only we had a Pensions Regulator as interesting as Sarah Smart.
I was speaking yesterday with a journalist who is interested in the future of TPR and the rating I gave its current Chair Sarah Smart. Let me clarify, I think that Sarah has done all she could and for almost … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, DWP, Employment, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, Pensions, Retirement, TPR
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Why are local LGPS costs so mad? – Toby Nangle explains!
At some stage over the emotional past three days, I submitted an attempt to win a WTW journalistic award. I know I won’t win it but I do think that people who make an effort to explain themselves , have … Continue reading