Tag Archives: Laura Trott
Pensions getting back on track
In this blog, I look at the second half of a letter from Mel Stride and Jeremy Hunt to the Pensions Regulator – Nausicaa Delfas. In the first half, the letter outlines the need for DC pension saving to … Continue reading
“A word in your ear about pensions, Jeremy”
“Jeremy, as your new number two, I’m supposed to be getting my feet under the table right now, but I couldn’t help noticing you have an autumn statement to make next week and since I didn’t get my … Continue reading
Why yesterday was a good day for Mansion House reform.
Laura Trott’s promotion to Chief Secretary to the Treasury in today’s reshuffle is the latest marking point in her rapid political rise. The Sevenoaks MP has been in Parliament for less than four years – having first been elected at … Continue reading
LCP lays down a marker for the future
LCP has published an open letter to Pensions Minister encouraging her to use the Mansion House reforms to ease inter-generational issues over the future of the planet by getting pensions invested for a purpose. The timing is not great, … Continue reading
What is Mansion House’s Plan B?
There are two ways to react to the disappointment of not having a pensions bill in the Kings Speech. The first is to let rip at the DWP and a process that has had the pensions industry engaging in … Continue reading
Trott keeps her powder dry
This may be the last PLSA conference of this parliament. It may be the last conference in which Pension Minister Laura Trott is in that role. Consensus is that in the short time she has held the brief she has … Continue reading
Superfunds jeopardized by regulatory torpor and timidity
One of the key planks of the Mansion House reforms needs is in urgent need of regulatory attention. There may be legislation and guidance enabling Pension Superfunds to consolidate DB plans, but without revision, the Pension Regulator’s guidance looks … Continue reading
The options for DB schemes have never been so good
In this blog, I give four recommendations to Government as to how they can improve the pension prospects for those in corporate defined benefit shcemes. Too late to call for evidence -the evidence is with you! In its call … Continue reading
Extending Auto-Enrolment is a Mansion House reform
There has been criticism of the DWP and Treasury’s Mansion House reforms as not constituting a coherent vison for pensions. I think that this is misguided. Whether in relation to corporate DB, LGPS or DC pensions, the reforms represent a … Continue reading
Where’s AE in Government’s pension reforms?
There has been criticism of the DWP and Treasury’s Mansion House reforms as not constituting a coherent vison for pensions. I think that this is misguided. Whether in relation to corporate DB, LGPS or DC pensions, the reforms represent a … Continue reading