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A letter from Insight’s Jos Vermeulen on how pension surpluses can help the Government out.
My next door neighbour in Blackfriars has written to the FT. He’s close enough to Bracken House to have hand delivered it on foot! Here’s what Jos has to say I read with interest the recent article highlighting surpluses … Continue reading
Richard Smith calls for Andy Burnham’s help; the pension dashboard needs the new prime minister.
Richard Smith has a message for the Prime Minister on his first day in charge. We will hear over the next few days news of our new Chancellor and the place for our Pensions Minister. Much will change but pensions … Continue reading
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Tagged Government, Pension Dashboard, Prime Minister, Richard Smith, Win
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The stink of Thames Water persists for BT ,USS and their pensions.
This may be stale news for those who manage British Telecom’s massive pension scheme but it won’t help the pensioners and deferred pensioners who may see something faulty in its investment strategy. A lot of money was lost by BT’s … Continue reading
Collective Defined Contribution Schemes – the “Shameful Missed Opportunity” of 2008!
Here is An article by Kevin Wesbroom. I first published it on June 3rd 2014, just over 12 years ago. Kevin was then leading Aon’s thought leadership on DC . This reminds me how little had changed since six years … Continue reading
Major news from Nest which points to a pensions success.
It is easy to poke fun at consolidation and the establishment of megafunds. It is not easy to create a pension fund that invests nearly a quarter of its assets as Nest does in Britain, in its infrastructure and production. … Continue reading
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Tagged assets, Business, CDC, DWP, Financial services, Government, Long Term Assets, National Employment Savings Trust, NEST, pension, Pensions, Retirement, Scale
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People cease to matter to insurers in this merry-go-round of ownership
No one has written the definitive history of life insurance over the past 50 years, but Gordon Aitken has a good go. There are of course part of the pictures he cannot touch. Wealth management was initialled by Abbey Life … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, Business and Economy, credit, dc pensions, gordon aitken, Government, Insurers, Pensions, PRA
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Sam Cobley gives LCP’s view on CDC pension and DC flexibility
This is a blog about CDC and if you are interested in the subject, I recommend you listen to it. Sam has a very similar career path to Nico (through banks and consultancy) and while Sam’s still at LCP and … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, DWP, Fix, flexibility, Government, LCP, National Employment Savings Trust, Pensions, Sam Cobley
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TPR’s vision of a future DB market including buy-outs, superfunds and schemes just carrying on
The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has encouraged trustees and employers to actively consider their defined benefit (DB) scheme endgame strategies, as a “step change” in funding levels is transforming the DB landscape. Publishing its first DB universe projection model report, TPR said … Continue reading
What are our Lords up to with “Pension Schemes” this week?
This from the “on the money” Pension Age which keeps us up to date with the Pension discussions. Peers query mandation and LGPS powers as Pension Schemes Bill enters HoL committee stage By Callum Conway 13/1/26 House of Lords (HoL) … Continue reading
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Tagged AgeWage, Defined benefit pension plan, DWP, Employment, Government, Investment, pension, Pensions, Retirement, Ros Altmann
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Steve Webb is in the potting shed- helping people get their pots together.
This is one of a number of questions people ask about pensions, which Steve is given the unenviable job of answering. This is his go, I suspect this may be one for the private sector to get on with , … Continue reading