Tag Archives: Edi Truell

Truell on Superfunds; PPP coffee morning – 10 am today

Posted on August 1, 2023 by henry tapper

  Edi Truell has more reasons than most to back the Mansion House reforms. Through his investment vehicle – Disruptive Capital – he is offering an investment trust known as “Long Term Assets” . As the founder and funder of … Continue reading →

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Edi Truell on why “TPR is on the warpath”.

Posted on July 28, 2023 by henry tapper

  Edi Truell has more reasons than most to back the Mansion House reforms. Through his investment vehicle – Disruptive Capital – he is offering an investment trust known as “Long Term Assets” . As the founder and funder of … Continue reading →

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Truell claims buy-out “reinsurance” is “superfunds through the back-door”.

Posted on June 19, 2023 by henry tapper

I recently reported on the Bank of England and Prudential Regulatory Authority’s concern that Insurers were passing on the management of assets and liabilities via reinsurance using captives in Bermuda and other offshore havens. This strikes the common reader as … Continue reading →

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Is this the way to invest capital productively?

Posted on June 4, 2023 by henry tapper

There’s a lot of talk about superfunds over the past few weeks. Here is a superfund that has already been created and is “oven ready”. I am a 61-year-old with a pension pot, considering how my money can work as … Continue reading →

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Do pension superfunds have super powers?

Posted on May 30, 2023 by henry tapper

Do pension superfunds have super-powers? The phrase “pension superfund” has been hijacked by the Tony Blair Institute to mean a not for profit investment fund that swallows up pension money from DB , DC from the PPF and maybe the … Continue reading →

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2023 is not an hour old before pensions hit the headlines

Posted on January 1, 2023 by henry tapper

The first thing I read in 2023 was the lead story by Josephine Cmubo in the new year’s day edition of the Financial Times. Her article reignites the fires flaming before the Christmas break over the purpose of pension scheme … Continue reading →

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Is this the way to invest capital productively?

Posted on December 27, 2022 by henry tapper

I am a 61-year-old with a pension pot, considering how my money can work as hard as I have done these past 40 years. Having started my working life in 1983, I have a reasonable hope that my money may … Continue reading →

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For Edi and Andy to do business, DC must grow up.

Posted on November 20, 2022 by henry tapper

Let’s put aside all the arguments over how IRRs in the private equity world are calculated and address Edi’s fundamental question “why would private equity managers want to market their services to UK DC pension platforms?”. As Edi Truell is … Continue reading →

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A Super-Haven for DC pots? – Adrian Boulding

Posted on May 6, 2022 by henry tapper

I was genuinely excited to attend the Pension Playpen interview with Edi Truell. As well as his work on Superfunds as a Buy Out vehicle for old final salary schemes, which is of only tangential interest to me, Edi also … Continue reading →

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Hear Edi Truell – “live and unplugged” – this morning

Posted on May 3, 2022 by henry tapper

That great marmite-sandwich of a man, Edi Truell will be talking with me (and hopefully you) this morning at the Pension PlayPen coffee morning. You can be there by clicking through pensionplaypen.com to the link that sits on the events … Continue reading →

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