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Jo Cumbo leaves pensions
It’s the bombshell we never wanted to see fall! This blog has lived off Cumbo stories for as long as Cumbo has commanded the FT pensions desk and her departure will be a great loss, not just to pensions, but … Continue reading
Jo Cumbo – we’re missing you!
An homage to to the Financial Times Global Pension Correspondent is due. March 26th was when Jo last posted in the FT , since when Jo has been in Australia, deservedly remote from the discordant clamour of Britain’s pension scene. … Continue reading
Unions , trustees and private equity managers should have aligned interests.
The extraordinary thing about the FT’s conversation with outgoing CI of Calstrs , Christopher Cailman, is that a pension fund’s attitude to the behaviour of its privately owned investments , should be its front story. Calstrs – the Californian Teachers … Continue reading
Jo Cumbo remembers Port Talbot
If you could go to one of the two Facebook support groups for mis-sold BSPS pension Scheme this bank holiday weekend, you’d find this post Al Rush has put the last four minutes of this week’s VFM podcast, the minutes … Continue reading
The wonderful visit to OZ – Jo Cumbo reports from a land down under.
Jo Cumbo is an Australian living in England who makes no bones about where her heart is! Been living abroad for two decades but the first glimpse of home soil after a very long flight gets me every time. 🇦🇺🇬🇧 … Continue reading
Selling pensions by the sausage not the sizzle!
There’s an interesting debate going on in Australia about what sells Super. Super is the Australian system of delivering retirement income from workplace savings (it’s short for Superannuation) – a pension paid to a retired employee who has contributed … Continue reading
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Tagged Bloated, Impact, Jim Hennington, jo cumbo, Pensinos, Pensions grants, Productive Capital, Social housing, Super, VFM
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Do speculative opinions of future value have a place in VFM statements?
Jo Cumbo’s post deserves a proper answer Looking for comments on the Government’s proposals to allow #pension providers to use estimates of future investment performance, in their new value-for-money assessment. To be clear, this is about the provider estimating returns … Continue reading
2023 is not an hour old before pensions hit the headlines
The first thing I read in 2023 was the lead story by Josephine Cmubo in the new year’s day edition of the Financial Times. Her article reignites the fires flaming before the Christmas break over the purpose of pension scheme … Continue reading
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Tagged Edi Truell, jo cumbo, LDI, Long Term Assets, pension funds
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2022 – the FT’s pension journalism – “unbroken”!
Now the year is over, night is drawing nigh, yet more consultations, drift across the sky! One of the brightest thing to happen in a dark year, has been the development of outstanding pension journalism within the FT. I don’t … Continue reading