Tag Archives: Employment
LGPS conference concludes but my writing on LGPS won’t!
The final day of a conference tends to be an anti-climax after a boozy night before. This was an exception with two big sessions at the end, the first considering fiduciary responsibilities in investment – featuring Kings Bench superstar … Continue reading
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Tagged AgeWage, Business, DWP, Employment, Government, LGPS, National Employment Savings Trust, Pension new
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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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How political can LGPS get! Let’s rid it of localism.
The Andrew Gwynne affair seems to have something to do with pensions, as Michael Crick reports. Tameside runs the Greater Manchester local government scheme, the largest in the UK. The gov want it to invest for growth but local councillors … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, DWP, Employment, Financial services, LGPS, pension, Pensions, Treasury, workplace Pensions
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Can the LGPS please set out its funding position to ordinary tax-payers.
There is a row in Birmingham between some professors and the executive of Birmingham and it has been a matter for the Birmingham Post. I wrote about it earlier in the year and was sent the paper (which being in … Continue reading
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Tagged annuity, auto enrolment, Business, Employment, Joanne Donnelly, LGPS, pension, Pensions
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Right analysis+razor sharp solutions…needed by TPR
The last 7 days have had me listening for 3 hours to a former executive and the current Chair of TPR and I find myself deflated. Here is a former TPR worker on my comments about David Fairs last … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Haldane, Business, Business and Economy, dc pensions, Defined benefit pension plan, DWP, Employment, pension, Pension Regulator, Pensions, Retirement, Treasury
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What’s happening to L&G’s shares matters to our pensions
On Friday, the FT brooked a story which at first site is a bit obscure, concerning Japanese and American businesses. Legal & General has brokered a deal to sell its US insurance business to Japan’s Meiji Yasuda for $2.3bn in … Continue reading
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Tagged AE, AE reforms, annuity, Business, Employment, L&G, National Employment Savings Trust, Pensions
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David Fairs sees a brave new world of DC mega-funds.
David Fairs is on this week’s VFM podcast and like Sarah Smart he arrived with an agenda that related to pensions, this meant talking about the pension funding question that he’d wrestled with while at the Pensions Regulator and … Continue reading
Pension Oldie’s punky monkey party
Pension Oldie has been commenting on my blog . If I had an oldie’s party, he’d be my punky monkey. It is my strong belief that a very easy win for UK Economic growth would be a radical re-appraisal of … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, dc pensions, Employment, Financial services, Government, pension, Pension new, Pension Oldie, Pensions
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A Treasury that criticises regulators for not taking risk?
I am not a regular reader of Investment Week but maybe I should have. Here is the former pensions minister, now City Minister, telling an audience that they should stop sitting on their and their clients money and putting it … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, DWP, Emma Reynolds, Employment, Financial services, Government, HM Treasury, pension, Treasury
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