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William MacLeod – sense on the Pension Schemes Bill and investment trusts
The debate on investment trusts/companies is not an easy one to follow, so it is good to have this man posting sensibly on a subject that matters.
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Tagged 'investment trusts, Investment companies, lords, Peers, Pension Schemes Bill, Ros Altmann, Sharon Bowles
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The embarrassing lottery of the default “pension” pathway.
The analysis of what’s happening by default to people’s DC pots is from Peter Osthwaite and published in Professional Pensions. The four pathways devised by the FCA to lead people to retirement take people to very different places. For some … Continue reading
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Tagged Contract, default, FCA, Pathways, Pension Schemes Bill, Pensions
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The PPF is waggling its tail at what it can do with a spare £14.1bn
The PPF has a smile on its face The lifeboat fund has proposed maintaining a zero PPF levy for conventional defined benefit schemes, having confirmed in September it would not charge a levy for 2025/26. The PPF confirmed its current reserves alongside … Continue reading
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Investment trusts need promotion not demotion from workplace pensions
No messing with the Lords – investment trusts need promotion not demotion. The Association of Investment Companies has again appealed to the government to amend its pension schemes bill in the House of Lords as time runs out to prevent … Continue reading
Has anyone asked employers – what pensions they want for their staff?
When you look at the mastertrust list you can see that the large employers with an history of pension provision for their staff have now decided to either provide staff with “pensions” or to rely on master trusts to do it … Continue reading
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Tagged CDC, DB, decumulation, Flex and Fix, Pension Schemes Bill, Pensions
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Investment Companies – heartbeat of FTSE 250 – forgotten by Pension Schemes Bill – Altmann
This is an excellent post . I will leave Ros and to make the point. Thanks William Macleod I too am surprised that promoting Investment Companies (or Trusts) is not part of the Bill’s intention to increase UK growth stocks … Continue reading
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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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L&G and Aviva argue for Australia as the “silver bullet” for the Pension Schemes Bill
You can follow this session from this link, it is the last session of the morning with the Government Committee Unfortunately the wrong people had been put forward by Aviva (Dale Critchley) and L&G (Colin Clarke) to talk about surplus … Continue reading
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An angry and animated Torsten Bell discusses parts of his Pension Schemes Bill
Torsten Bell did not look a happy Pension Minister when he had to deal with a question about Pre-97 indexation of FAS schemes. You can tell that Terry Monk behind Torsten Bell has slightly less defensive body language and a … Continue reading
Why wealth managers and advisers shouldn’t dismiss the Pension Schemes Bill
This article is the Pension Schemes Act will be important to clients and their advisers This month the Pension Minister, Torsten Bell published a long Bill concerned with Pension Schemes. Intermediaries in the retail market may consider it has little … Continue reading