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7/10 for the new DB pension timeline
To be frank, this is a disappointing timeline for Superfunds that will mean that the DWP regulations and TPR code will not come into force till well over ten years that superfunds were announced by the then Pensions Minister Guy … Continue reading
ABI’s insurers invested only 0.24% of workplace pensions in Compact assets last year
The ABI have given the market an update of the progress of insurers in the investment of their workplace pensions. This is not quite the good news we might have been expecting. This from the Progress Update the ABI has … Continue reading
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Lots of consultation on mandatory pension increases (no promises)
Chancellor Rachel Reeves is expected to announce a shake-up of UK pensions in her Mansion House speech on July 15, including plans to look at the amount companies and their staff set aside for retirement. Two executives familiar with her … Continue reading
Should Pension Schemes Ditch Gilts?
Yesterday saw the implementation of the funding code, tomorrow may see it rewritten We are fast approaching the Mansion House Speech (Thursday) when we can confidently expect Government to address the issue of valuing and funding defined benefit pension schemes. … 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
Mansion House at the tipping point – November 2023 has started well
This blog has been revised. If you get one thing that changes your outlook from an online event – it should be counted a success, yesterday’s SG Conference on productive finance gave me two The Pensions Regulator is … Continue reading
Why IGC reports are more relevant than ever this year.
History Since Independent Governance Committees (IGCs) started in 2016, I have been reading their Annual Reports and commenting on thiem. I look at how effective they have been , the credibility of their assessment of value for money and I … Continue reading
Small beer; Keating and Clacher take a sober look at the PPF
Anyone who struggles to pay attention to pensions should read no further. There are close to 10,000 words in this article and some very deep thinking. I publish it because we have a couple of debates coming up on the … Continue reading
DB surpluses are not “the golden opportunity” of the Mansion House reforms.
WTW (as we now must call Willis Towers Watson) have identified the use of surplus as conclusive to the WTW perspective ( a four page PDF which finishes with this call to action). It would have been as unimaginable for … Continue reading