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Do YOU have a fantasy amendment for the Pension Schemes Bill? Send in your thoughts!
We are entering a fallow period for work and you may be looking for something meaningful to do between now and Monday January 5th when we start again in earnest. The last pension act followed considerable public disorder, the photo … Continue reading
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Tagged Opperman, parliament, Pension schemes Act, Pensions, Ros Altmann, Torsten Bell
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An encyclopedia of responses to the Pension Schemes Bill
An encyclopedia of responses to our Pension Schemes Bill. I think “our” is right, it does not belong to the pension industry (though sometimes I thought it did).The Pension Schemes Bill is a precursor to an Act which should … Continue reading
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Tagged General Committee, parliament, Pension Schemes Bill, Pensions, Post
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TPR and FCA are very polite at Parliament’s General Committee
A discussion between parliament’s General Commission and Patrick Coyne of TPR and Charlotte Clark This session gets a lot of interest from Government , perhaps because both regulators are within Government and neither have a commercial interest in the Pension … Continue reading
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Tagged Charlotte Clark, FCA, General Committee, parliament, Patrick Swayne, Pensions, TPR
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The parliamentary voice of victims of investment fraud
The crowd who assembled for the Landmark Parliamentary Summit of the Investment Fraud Committee of this parliament was substantial, the room was packed to hear great speakers commencing with Andy Agethangelou but for the most part victims. They included Brian … Continue reading
Dashboard dizzy day! Smith, Gubler and others stalk Parliament!
It’s a busy morning with the Pensions Minister talking in the City and Richard Smith, Kim Gubler and a host of others speaking at Westminster on what should be done with the dashboard. Meeting starts at 9.15am – you can … Continue reading
Former FCA Chair, Randell on the regulators we ask for
Charles Randell published this in linked in yesterday and wants it published on this blog. A group of us are meeting next week to get beyond “vibes and tribes” and I hope that this former Chair of the FCA … Continue reading
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Tagged Alughter and May, Charles Randell, FCA, parliament, Pensions, TPR
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The inquiry into LDI moves apace as L&G’s summoned to parliament
The chief exec and chair of L&G, one of the UK’s largest pension providers, will this week appear before a UK parliamentary committee probing the use of #LDI strategies by #pension schemes.https://t.co/XLRMqqftNr — Josephine Cumbo (@JosephineCumbo) November 21, 2022 Days … Continue reading
Bob Compton speaks out on Pension Funding
Bob Compton MD of Arc Benefits is quietly spoken but an acute listener. He wrote to me yesterday this mail which provides a fascinating insight into the debate over how we fund our open and closed DB schemes and the … Continue reading
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Tagged Arc Benefits, Bob Compton, Guy Opperman, parliament, Pensino Schemes Bill, TPR
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Snowden’s proposal for an amnesty for the pension liberated.
I was pleased to read Margaret Snowden’s measured call for an amnesty for those scammed through pension liberation schemes , commonly sold in the early years of this century. The evidence appears as part of the inquiry into pension scams … Continue reading
#WASPI – did we fail in our duty of care?
The WASPI debate that will happen tomorrow is of some significance. Not only will parliament be debating the particular circumstances of a particular group of women, they will be deciding whether the duty of care Government has, to keep its … Continue reading
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Tagged DWP, Government, parliament, pension, Retirement, state pension, state retirement age, WASPI
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