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Public Policy Adjustments to Increase UK Investment from Defined Benefit Schemes
Defined Benefit Schemes : Public Policy Adjustments to Increase UK Investment and Encourage Exercise of Discretion Policy Opportunities for HMT / DWP / DBT From William McGrath of C-Suite The impact of the measures below would be to increase investment … Continue reading
Blackmore Bond Holders will get FSCS claims paid – Carlier.
A background blog from 2022 is available here. How the FCA failed those sold Blackmore Bonds . It took strong campaigners to make a difference, congratulations who were strong and have. Paul Carlier is a strong advocate for transparency, fairness … Continue reading
Tom McPhail questions the value for money from our pension regulation
We would all enjoy eating sausages a bit less, so the story goes, if we could see what goes into them. Well, you’d probably feel the same way about pension regulation if you could see how much it is costing … Continue reading
The consumer voice insists on being heard.
I went to a Transparency Taskforce event at the office of Hausfeld, to hear the voice of the Transparency Task Force and to honour Chris Sier, who helped TTF be founded in 2015 but who will be with us … Continue reading
Aviva’s IGC; a good quality life company promoting itself through its IGC!
Aviva have delivered their IGC report and it’s a thorough piece of work. You can download it here or read it in full from this blog The marketing of these reports seems to depend on very relaxed executives in casual … Continue reading
TPR and FCA are very polite at Parliament’s General Committee
A discussion between parliament’s General Commission and Patrick Coyne of TPR and Charlotte Clark This session gets a lot of interest from Government , perhaps because both regulators are within Government and neither have a commercial interest in the Pension … Continue reading
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Tagged Charlotte Clark, FCA, General Committee, parliament, Patrick Swayne, Pensions, TPR
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A small step from the FCA helping Nest and Suez and many others
This morning I’ve been thinking through the ideas put forward earlier this summer about including all workers in a universal pension system. It’s good to hear that the FCA are doing something about this now, it need not wait till … Continue reading
Defaults must be brutal- people who get defaulted say “no” to choice- TPR
TPR and FCA have done a joint podcast. Listening to “Guided retirement and helping savers make the right decisions” at https://t.co/JotfjdxaYE — Henry Tapper (@henryhtapper) August 23, 2025 Patrick Coyne, Interim Director of Pensions Reform at TPR, and Nike Trost, … Continue reading
A new kind of influencer – the financial flame thrower?
Here is a new kind of influencer – the influencer on social media. My friend Derek Scott, who is my kind of financial influencer sent me this – which has interesting comparison with what I have been suggesting in the … Continue reading
Compassion in Action: The Women Fighting for Fraud and Financial Abuse Victims
This article has been passed me by Sue Flood who has worked for women’s rights in the financial world. I am happy to give her thoughts space on this blog. In a world too often ruled by numbers and red … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, corporate governance, corporate risk, Employment, FCA, Government, pension
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