Tag Archives: Edi Truell

Is this the way to invest capital productively?

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?

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

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?

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.

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

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

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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Truell give pensions good tidings of comfort and joy.

  In a tour de force at yesterday’s conference on pension scheme “endgame, middle-game and long-game“,  Edi Truell vowed to open his Pension Superfund to savers wanting to convert thier pots to pensions. Truell is planning, once his Superfund is … Continue reading

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Con Keating and Edi Truell (a trilogy in the making?)

Con Keating has sent me this post, in reply to Edi Truell’s recent linked in post on his recent blog “Safe as Houses”. I no longer subscribe to Linked-In (I find its security appalling) but I have been told that … Continue reading

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