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Are Nest’s low earning customers really wanting to invest for their retirement?
Nest Insight research shows millions more low earners could be investing My guess is that the millions want to save for a pension but not invest for their retirement. I see a lot of enthusiasm among adults in the UK … Continue reading
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Tagged CDC, corporate adviser, NEST, NEST insight, Pensions, state pension
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Is now the time for Nest to invest £450m into US private credit?
Donald Trump has cleared away legal barriers to employers that want to let workers put their 401(k)-retirement money into riskier but potentially higher-yielding assets like private equity, real estate funds and so on. The US President asks if big institutions … Continue reading
For millions of people, Nest’s the only investment they’ve made
I’m a Nest investor and though I’ve been an investor all my adult life , I don’t get as much fun out of it as I ought. I’ve been enjoying getting insights into what Nest do with my money and … Continue reading
Artificial Intelligence is a matter of judgement
I find myself writing about the same subject, twice in one morning. It’s because I have at last got headlines that match what is happening to my job! First there’s financial advice. It’s something I did between 1984 and 2005 … Continue reading
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