Tag Archives: Frank Field

Open pensions – not closed meetings!

Posted on December 2, 2018 by

  In advance of an expected announcement on the pensions dashboard on Monday, Frank Field has published a letter to Guy Opperman and his Work and Pensions Select Committee and  has published the findings  of a round table with the “pension … Continue reading →

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Pensions “Shock and Awe”

Posted on December 1, 2018 by

Next week looks like being a big one for Pensions with the Pensions Minister summoning the dasboardistas to Westminster on Monday morning for the big reveal. This meeting is scheduled to last an hour and will mean I will be … Continue reading →

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Frank Field – a Labour warrior.

Posted on August 31, 2018 by

Frank Field Quits Labour Party https://t.co/lr5COhPfCq pic.twitter.com/yVXTAild4f — Guido Fawkes (@GuidoFawkes) August 30, 2018 Yesterday I reported that Chris Sier and Andy Agethangelou were appearing in front of Frank Field’s Work and Pensions Select Committee. Today I’m writing about Frank … Continue reading →

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Let’s make “Legacy” a thing of the past.

Posted on August 19, 2018 by

It’s hard not to feel a twinge of sympathy for Richard Smith. Concur with that. Those working with the 6% don’t. Comments on my document haven’t gone down that well – then again, I wasn’t really expecting it to be … Continue reading →

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Higher costs – lower pay-outs? Fact or fiction.

Posted on August 6, 2018 by

This is the first of seven blogs I will write, that will by September 3rd, form my submission to the Work and Pension Select Committee’s inquiry into pension transparency. Today’s exam question is; Do higher-cost providers deliver higher performance, or simply … Continue reading →

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Con Keating on the Rules of Evidence and The Defined Benefit White Paper.

Posted on April 14, 2018 by

This post is from Con Keating and first appeared in Portfolio Institutional Alongside its new DB white paper (Protecting Defined Benefit Pension Schemes) the Department of Work and Pensions published a summary of the responses to the earlier DB Green … Continue reading →

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Frank Field helps us spend our pensions

Posted on April 4, 2018 by

  Here is the main recommendation of Frank Field and  the Workplace Pension Select Committee’sfinal report of its inquiry into Pension freedom and choice published today. We recommend every pension provider offering drawdown is required, by April 2019, to offer a default … Continue reading →

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Westminster rocks as Minister pledges support for CDC.

Posted on March 15, 2018 by

            There was a good news story playing out in Committee Room 6 of  the Westminster Palace yesterday morning. A good news story, that is, if you fancy a pension from your workplace pension scheme. … Continue reading →

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My call for an end to contingent fees on DB pension transfers

Posted on March 9, 2018 by

  Calls to keep contingent pricing fall on my deaf ears. I champion the pension rights of those with low incomes and I champion the rights of those likely to get lower pensions (women). I don’t champion the right of … Continue reading →

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A good day for pensions, a good day for the DC upgrade.

Posted on February 22, 2018 by

We will know we have a solution when we don’t need guns. Overnight I heard the President of the United States deliver his solution to the gun crisis in American schools. To prevent more mass shootings, Donald Trump suggested that American teachers … Continue reading →

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