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Dan Mikulskis and Martin Lewis have a simple story, an investment message!
This needed to be said. The article in question can be read from here Dan talks of DC master trusts but you could have got roughly the same returns whether you were invested in a the default of a DC … Continue reading
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Tagged Dan mikulskis, growth, Martin Lewis, National Employment Savings Trust, Pensions, Peoples Pension, shares
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An AI bubble popping? The FT expect one, I want a pension not a pot!
Not one but two pension journalists pick up the cudgels and go for Artificial Intelligence as a bubble to blow up. This of course matters to most British savers who are invested in the USA, in the 7 mega stocks … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, CDC, DWP, ft, kirk, Mary Macdougall, McDougall, Nasdaq, National Employment Savings Trust, NEST
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Good work – Pensions UK- if small pots can be sorted by the decade’s end.
Pensions UK, you are doing the work that is needed, bringing together experts to get this done to a timetable. I have written the blog so you can stop with Zoe Alexander’s news item, or follow with Matthew Williams or … Continue reading
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Tagged auto enrolment, DWP, National Employment Savings Trust, NEST, pension, Pension UK, Retirement, small pots, workplace Pensions
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Pension Schemes Bill gets parliamentary evidence from 23 experts
We are at the end of a massive gift of evidence in Parliament If you take a fancy to , you can watch the morning meetings here You can watch the afternoon meetings here There has been a little comment … Continue reading
NEST- the irrefutable case for “Scheme Pensions”. A blog written 15 years ago
That we have spent no time discussing the deaccumulation of NEST funds is a scandal. It is time for this subject to be put on the public agenda – if it is not, then NEST should be branded a half-baked project.
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Tagged Financial services, Insurance, Life annuity, National Employment Savings Trust, Open Market Option, pension, Retirement, Scheme
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LGPS conference concludes but my writing on LGPS won’t!
The final day of a conference tends to be an anti-climax after a boozy night before. This was an exception with two big sessions at the end, the first considering fiduciary responsibilities in investment – featuring Kings Bench superstar … Continue reading
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Tagged AgeWage, Business, DWP, Employment, Government, LGPS, National Employment Savings Trust, Pension new
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Paying to people who are alive today and will be alive next century
I have a very mystified CEO concerned that a pension scheme should be looking to pay pensions beyond the life expectancy of him and presumably his pension executive/trustee Let me give you a worked example from a real member of … Continue reading
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Tagged AgeWage, annuity, Business, dc pensions, Government, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, pension playpen
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Big clubs and big pensions are winners – but we don’t all support them!
My generation is reaching the end of pension politics. Mark Rowlands was my Friends Provident broker consultant when I was at Gissings in the early 1990s. He’s hanging up his clogs for the final time shortly having eked out his … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, DWP, National Employment Savings Trust, Pension new, Pension Regulator, Pensions, Retirement
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Welcome Scotland – goodbye Culloden
Those familiar with these things will recognise my Partick correspondent talking to the Pensions Minister. He’s chuffed as he should be – few people achieved what he has done for the PPF. I have been thinking of the exercise of … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, DWP, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, Retirement, Steve Webb
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Defending the defenceless is ethical; the money’s in my pension fund!
The FT, like the Telegraph, are keen to talk up the adamant attitude of People’s Pension and Nest to run ethical funds that do not invest in defence stocks. This despite calls from 100 Labour MPs to increase fund investment … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, defence, DWP, Financial services, ft, Government, Mark Carney, National Employment Savings Trust, NEST, pension, Pensions, politics, workplace Pensions
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