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How have People’s Pension done so particularly well?
I become here a commentator, not an advisor or a to be CDC proprietor – just a jaw dropped commentator! This is a truly extraordinary achievement by People’s Pension and they have done it in a year when they walked … Continue reading
Good for Rothesay – good for Nest – good for pensioners.
Nest has partnered Rothesay, to design a new lifetime income option for members in retirement, combining a bulk annuity with a managed investment approach. This new approach will be a market first for the UK. Rothesay will co-design a bulk deferred … Continue reading
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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Retail collective pensions? I fear an opt-out in retirement for CDC.
It is early on a Sunday morning and I have been working on a response to the DWP’s consultancy questions on Retirement CDC. It’s the third part of a project that started with single employer CDC and looks like being … Continue reading
Work Pensions do deals NOW in UK private markets (not just offer LTAFs).
While the ABI hurried out a paper I wrote about over the weekend saying insurers had invested next to nothing (0.24% of £268bn) in retail workplace pensions (around £650m), institutional investment is a different matter for organisations seeing investment as … Continue reading
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Tagged Housing, Infrastructure, L&G, LTAF, LTAFs, NEST, workplace
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Two great videos that make me glad to have a Nest pension
I’m copying a load of stuff in Professional Pensions, which I assume was a press release, not a problem guys, by the time I’d clicked on the two vids and studied the owl’s Nest, I could digest the detail. Nest … Continue reading
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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Sally Bridgeland to lead management of our money at Nest- thank goodness!
There are many who will read this article and feel the better for Nest- I am one of them! There was a generation of bright actuaries and in Andrew Warwick-Thompson (a lawyer who was honoured as one) working at Bacon … Continue reading
PensionsOldie and the risks of closed personal pensions.
There are a string of comments on my recent blogs suggesting that 7% would be a sensible conversion rate for DC pots defaulting to retirement income. But Pensions Oldie sees potential problems of making promises without protecting you from people … Continue reading
Have NEST swapped pension energy for deferred annuities?
There was a moment in Paul Todd’s excellent talk when I asked myself who owns the rate at which my pot is returned to me. The answer is not clear even to Nest, it depends on what the provider … Continue reading