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Tag Archives: Investment
Cash beats shares for capital gains (but not for pensions).
Paul Lewis has produced a brilliant study that shows how the outcomes of investing a capital sum in cash would have been better than investing in shares over the past 21 years. Paul is right, the numbers do not lie and … Continue reading
Posted in pensions
Tagged Bonds, capital, Cash, Derek Benstead, equities, Investment, ISAs, Paul Lewis, pension, pensions, shares
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Phoenix and its heroic IGC
Not a job for the boys Of all the duff jobs out there, being Chair of the Phoenix IGC must rank high in the pantheon. Phoenix is a shell company that over the years has acquired a number of life … Continue reading
Posted in IGC, pensions
Tagged Business, Chair, Costs and charges, David Hare, governance, IGC, Investment, pensions, Phoneix, Transparency, workplace Pensions
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Standard Life’s IGC’s annual report; deceptively good!
The Standard Life Independent Governance Committee’s Chair, Rene Poisson, published his first annual report yesterday, you can read it here either in summary or in its full 40 pages. Most will read the summary but for those interested in product … Continue reading
Posted in pensions
Tagged GARS, governance, IGC, Investment, pension, Rene Poisson, Standard Life
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Good (and bad) news on investment fee disclosure!
The FT reports that the Investment Association has stated “we can see a way to build an underlying system, a common template, that will provide data tailored in a way that is suitable to both retail and institutional investors” That’s … Continue reading
Posted in pensions
Tagged Charge cap, DWP, FCA, Fees, IGC, Investment, pension, TPR, tranaparency
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Why assume gains before they are earned? (guest blog by Ralph Frank)
Downturns in financial markets have been known to trigger bouts of introspection. Current markets seem to be no different in this regard. Some investors have seen their carefully crafted plans blown off course, possibly not for the first time, … Continue reading
What if? ……Investment reporting for the future…
What if….. when I opened Google Earth and ran the cursor over my home town/county/country , I could see Housing stock being built Brownfield sites being redeveloped Start ups igniting into action Listed companies adapting to a new cleaner greener … Continue reading
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Tagged Asset management, ethical investment, Investment, investment administration, Legal and General, Marketing, Nigel Wilson, pensions, SRI
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Terry Smith – What I have learned from Fundsmith in the Past Five Years
Fundsmith is my favourite fund manager. Like Aberdeen (another favourite whose conference I’m going to today), it is an organisation with a strong purpose (moral and social). Terry Smith is an extraordinary man who’s views are always worth reading. He … Continue reading
Posted in investment, leadership, Management
Tagged fund management, Fundsmith, Investment, moral purpose, purpose, social purpose
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SHOW ME THE MONEY! What’s going to happen our auto-enrolment savings?
People want to know what happens to the money they invest and we are terrible about explaining where their money ends up. This blog talks about how we can make pension investment as vivid and real as the picture above. Over … Continue reading
Posted in infrastucture, investment, NEST
Tagged Business, dc pensions, Employment, Financial services, Infrastructure, infrastucture, Investment, pensions, Salford
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“TEEN-AGE kicks” – incentivising sensible spending in retirement
“A teenage dream’s so hard to beat.. Just say those words and I’m thinking 1978, radio under the pillow – John Peel show – 11pm. But I could relive the TEEN- AGE kicks in a few years time, if that … Continue reading
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Tagged auto enrolment, Business, Defined benefit pension plan, DWP, Employment, Financial services, Government, Insurance, Investment, Investment management, Life annuity, Michael Johnson, pension, Pension new, Retirement, Steve Webb, Teen-age, Teenage Kicks, Undertones
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Are employers buying workplace pensions on value or price?
We have started an interesting project looking at the reasons given for choosing a workplace pension. Our sample is those employers who have used http://www.pensionplaypen.com ‘s “choose a pension” tool. For those who don’t know- the tool analyses data input … Continue reading
