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Isn’t talk of Australia from our insurers a little overdone?
While there is a lot of beach trekking going on, stories of exciting developments in pension are clearly a little meagre. This morning the FT are running a tale of Phoenix (Standard +) lending some £75 Mn to Australian engineer … Continue reading
Ouch! Public sector pension rates hurt former Polytechnics.
Congratulations to Mary McDougall of the FT for an interesting and incisive article on university pension costs. This is the germ of the dispute between the old posh universities which were established before 1992 and the new universities (we used … Continue reading
Why is Brookfield’s purchase of Just getting so much attention?
I look at the stats on my blogs at the end of the working week. This week’s were strange; the two blogs on Brookfield taking over Just had twice the reads of any other. I thought it might be of … Continue reading
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Tagged BOE, Brookfield, ft, Just, Pensions, PIC, PRA, Rachel Reeves, Treasury
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A blog from 2016 – which is as relevant to Nest today as it was 9 years ago
This is a re blog of an account of Nest at one of the first PLSA (rather than NAPF) conferences. If you weren’t in Liverpool for last week’s PLSA conference, do not slit your wrists. You can watch the sessions … Continue reading
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Tagged auto enrolment, Drawdown, ft, josephine cumbo, NEST, Otto Thorsen, PLSA, the Pensins Regulator
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14 British employers demand a change to how their pensions are invested
There will be many laughing at this headline that tops an interview with our Lord Mayor King. But when you look at the companies that have assembled to back him up, you notice a few who specialise in delivering VFM … Continue reading
What impacts DC pensions today? Strong American assets and a weak dollar!
Every day I read Robert Armstrong’s early morning email to readers interested in US markets, every so often I find one that matters to me as a UK saver for my pension. This one matters because it reminds me that … Continue reading
White and black swans and Canadian geese (pension lessons from the Thames)
It is a beautiful June morning with hundreds of Canadian geese on the river; and a single black and white swan. My partner is sailing off the coast of Portugal and I am seeing allegories in the combinations of wildfowl … Continue reading
Riverside allegories for global flows of productive capital
It is a beautiful June morning with hundreds of Canadian geese on the river; and a single black swan and a single white swan. My partner is sailing off the coast of Portugal and I am seeing allegories in the … Continue reading
59k more claiming Pension Credits is a success for DWP
This blog refutes the argument that pension credit take up increase is bad news for the country. We should be really pleased! Clearly there are idiots out there who claim to be “analysts” and therefore right, but are bigots who … Continue reading
Will LGPS remain woke in Reform pension committees?
I am rich enough to share an article by Toby Nangle in today’s digital FT. The big idea is saved to the end but you get the gist throughout, Reform matters in local Government and local government pensions are important … Continue reading