Sadly we allowed the "lay trustee" to be written into our law eg the Trustee Act 2000. And rather than…
As an AMNT committee member we widened our constitution this week to spread the mentoring, networking and best practice dissemination…
"falls in contribution rates have begun to emerge" The LGPS Survey 2026 undertaken by Room 151 in association with Schroders…
Yes, follow-up on the many benefits of Auto-Enrollment with the benefits of Auto-Consolidation, with opt-outs again for the sophisticates who…
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A sensible way for the budget to give momentum to the Mansion House Accord
We need OUR money to find ways into OUR stock market and for OUR private companies to find a way to benefit themselves and us. Continue reading
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How boring can the Mansion House Accord get for pension savers?
“we are in danger of missing a once-in-a-generation opportunity for sovereign UK leadership in tech and thousands of new jobs in the economy” Michael Moore Continue reading
I hear complaints that there’s no UK private businesses for pension schemes to invest in!
Here is an article that looks at how the market to fund UK technology start ups is dominated by overseas investors and despite the Mansion House Accord, our pension funds haven’t found their way to opportunities. Perhaps we ought to … Continue reading
Can British pension funds invest in Britain as their Australian counterparts do?
If it won’t come from up here, it’s going to be from somewhere and the new “super unit” will start by getting it from down under. This new unit “will pave the way for vital investment into key UK projects”, … Continue reading
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The charge cap was far greater interference than investment mandation.
It would be very easy to nod smugly from within the pension bubble where everything we do is out of fiduciary duty. But outside the bubble fiduciary duty is not a phrase that many people understand and certainly not something … Continue reading
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The Bank of England fails to invest any of its £3.5bn staff pension for UK growth
This is a comment from my recent blog on the BOE and PRA’s open criticism of the DWP’s arguments for CDC. The most important criticism of the BoE pension fund is that it is not aligned with the government’s growth … Continue reading
The idea that a pensioner has "complete control over cash flows" is naive because it omits the awkward fact that…