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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
SASA – (Stagecoach Aberdeen Scheme Adoption) – the video and deck
If you missed this coffee morning presentation from John , you are in luck. It’s with you below, with a download if you want to share it – here. If you want to see the slides they are below and … Continue reading
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Tagged Aberdeen, Business, corporate governance, Defined benefit pension plan, DWP, FCA, Government, pension, pension playpen, Pensions, Retirement, SASA, Stagecoach
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A man and a woman making sense of investment for retirement
I wish I’d put it as well as this man has I’d wish I’d put it as well as this woman has UK businesses are facing many headwinds, but revitalising economic growth can help them overcome barriers to successful expansion. … Continue reading
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Tagged Business and Economy, corporate risk, dc pensions, Defined benefit pension plan, DWP, Government, Pension new, Pensions, Retirement, Ros Altmann, Steve Fine
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Richard Jones at Pension PlayPen today? Yes please!
How good it is to have someone I want to see , doing the promoting on his social feed! and then see it again? But you could stick with your local blog The meeting will be all the more pertinent … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, Government, Nick Jones, pension playpen, Pensions, TPR
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Ros Altmann in 2020 on the Pension Action Group’s progress to that date
It has been over 5 years since I published this blog on the Pensions Action Group. My blog is not worth a great deal of time and I enjoy it for a picture I took on the stripper’s beach in … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Young, DB, Government, pension, ppf, Retirement, Ros Altmann
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“The payment of tax is voluntary” – a useful thought from Laurence.
This wonderful post from our new friend Laurence , explains that taxation is owned by the people who pay it. If they don’t feel they own it, they won’t pay it. Let us not let Laurence’s tee-shirt become a … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston, Employment, Government, Laurence Field, pension playpen, Tax, Taxation, Treasury
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At last a plan for all pension schemes to pay pensions.
The shot is of Terry Pullinger speaking at a First Actuarial Conference many years ago. He , one company (Royal Mail), and a few enlightened advisers got CDC going. This blog is a reminder of where what we are enjoying … Continue reading
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Tagged #pensions, CD, CDC, DB, dc, dc pensions, DWP, Government, Pensions
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We don’t need austerity, we need to invest and grow
Martin Woolf has produced an econium to growth and posted it in the FT. People care about their standard of living. Democracy is simply far stronger if it is possible for everybody to become better off. Growth provides that. … Continue reading
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Tagged #pensions, Business, Ecopnium, Employment, Government, growth, Investment, Martin Woolf, pension, Pensions, Tax, Treasury, workplace Pensions
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CDC’s got a hard centre. Tough talking from DWP (4 TPR)
This blog bites inside the sweet messages of a 60% better pension for members to find what the DWP (and its regulator) have in mind beyond what was laid in 2022, is being laid now but what will need to … Continue reading