Scottish teachers' pay increases, such as the recent multi-year agreement negotiated via the Scottish Negotiating Committee for Teachers (SNCT) covering…
When only 8 to 15 mega-trusts dominate the entire defined contribution (DC) and LGPS landscape, peer-group risk may override manager…
This is clearly a serious story about institutional accountability, bankruptcy and the treatment of former employees. But, although the immediate…
Here's another way for a pension fund to get in the soup. https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2026/09/the-catholic-clergy-sex-abuse-scandal.html
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How safe is my pension?
This is one of the five most commonly asked questions I’ve been asked in my time advising members of workplace pensions in the past 25 years. In that time I have only advised on one scheme where members lost their … Continue reading
Posted in brand, pensions
Tagged Actuarial science, Business and Economy, corporate risk, England, Facebook, Government, Insurance, Investing, London, pension, Pension new, Pension Poverty, pensions, Retirement, Steve Webb
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NEST’s ambitious business plan looks doomed
Perhaps the restriction on providing supporting software to enable online on boarding and aE compliance is the one that is most needed of all, Continue reading
Posted in dc pensions, NEST
Tagged Business, dc pensions, de-risking, Defined benefit pension plan, DWP, Employment, Financial services, London, NEST, pension, Pension new, pension playpen, Pension Poverty
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How HMRC passes the buck on Pension Liberation Fraud
The only people who seem to be being dumped on are occupational pension trustees. Continue reading
Shows what the little man can do
“It is one of them, and right at this moment of course it is the best. But to have between 17,000 and 20,000 fans supporting us, which is a relatively small club, on a small budget, this is what you … Continue reading
Posted in football, pension playpen, Yeovil Town
Tagged Alex Ferguson, Gary Johnson, Glasgow, London, Paddy Ashdown, Terry Skiverton, Yeovil, Yeovil Town F.C.
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Bridging that advice gap – 43rd London Pension Lunch
Vivi and others were more optimistic, reckoning that employer power might be a way of driving standards up. Continue reading
The dam is full – manage the sluices
It can’t be much fun at the ABI these days. The FSA are investigating mis-pricing of annuities, the OFT are studying the distribution insurers use for pensions and just about every consumerist from Gregg McClymont to the NAPF are calling … Continue reading
The sunny uplands of Wiltshire
Above the Donheads and the villages of the Chalk Valley rises White Sheet Hill the western end of a ridge that runs 16 miles to Salisbury. Few buildings are on this ridge other than agricultural barns protecting hay, straw and … Continue reading
Posted in pensions
Tagged Christmas, Dorset, England, London, Ridgeway, Salisbury, Saudi Arabia, Wiltshire
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Six for five pound, one pound fish
Following brief employment at a pound shop, Muhammad Shahid Nazir, a Pakistani immigrant to the United Kingdom from the town of Pattoki, Kasur in Punjab, began work on a fish stall at Queen’s Market, Upton Park where his employer instructed him to … Continue reading
Posted in fish, one pound fish, pensions, smelly
Tagged Daily Mail, Kasur, London, Muhammad Shahid Nazir, Pakistan, Pattoki, Queens Road Market, Shahid Nazir
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Australian “Super” – not an answer – a new question.
I went to a discussion on the Australian retirement savings system at the invitation of the Australian actuarial group in London (thanks guys). The talk was excellent as were the questions. Being neither Australian or an actuary it was an eye – opener! Australia … Continue reading
Posted in annuity, Australia, auto-enrolment, corporate governance, pensions, Retirement, The Ashes
Tagged Active management, Australia, Business, Government, Homo Economicus, London, pension, public sector
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People with long eyes
“People with long eyes” This is what some native Americans called the scientists setting up a telescope in the mid-west desert; the phrase gave Lucy Winkett’s sermon at the St Paul’s Schools John Colet Day its theme. I sat and listened with long ears … Continue reading
Posted in Bankers, Church of England, leadership, Management, Occupy London, St Paul's
Tagged Britain, Cathedral, John Colet, London, Paul, St Paul's Cathedral, United States, westminster
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Except they’re not saving into a pension, Minister unless we convert all those pots to CDC and give them what…