This is clearly a serious story about institutional accountability, bankruptcy and the treatment of former employees. But, although the immediate…
Here's another way for a pension fund to get in the soup. https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2026/09/the-catholic-clergy-sex-abuse-scandal.html
I had earlier today read a medical research article reporting on a Japanese study that found that “supercentenarians” — those…
The simple truth is that the pension system is very good at taking your money, and may or may not…
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BP’s pensioners will not give up on the pensions they’ve been promised.
BP employed some very talented people who had strong principles. Murray is one of them. They will not give up on getting the pensions they were promised. Continue reading
Teacher’s pay rise partially funded by a drop in pension payments into LGPS
The money that they’d had to find under the original offer is now fully funded by the Government out of money they would have paid into LGPS. Support staff in schools are in the LGPS. Continue reading
In Defence of the Pension Pot – Matthew Webb
Matthew Webb has sent me this article and I’m very pleased he has. It is not the way I feel but I respect what Matthew does. He is now as Executive Director, Global Benefits Integration and Enablement at Comcast . … Continue reading
A pension’s autobiography on the dashboard!
This is the whole of the life of a friend of mine. He/she’s a fan of the pension dashboard and you can see why. I love the “around the £54,142.86 per annum” . That’s not approximation – that feels like … Continue reading
Unions; accruing DB for staff-encouraging collective pensions for millions of members
Set in a splendid converted warehouse in Borough’s warehouse yesterday this Trade Union Pensions Insight Conference was packed to the last available chair and there were people standing at the back. No surprise when Trade Unions have recovered their pension … Continue reading
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Tagged CDC, Collective Pensions, DB, first actuarial, Manchester, pension, trade unions, Unite, USDAW
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Reasons to be cheerful 1-2-3, Richard Smith takes lessons in pension engagement
I am getting three lessons from Richard Smith; he’s learning from what he’s getting from his pension providers. As usual, I feel I am on the same page (or should I say screen) as Richard. I follow him down the … Continue reading
Derek Scott and his part in the creation of the Mineworker’s surplus
I should put some context to the comment below, made by Derek Scott after he had read my article about putting the £15bn surplus in the PPF to work. There seem two types of surplus in UK DB pensions, those … Continue reading
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Has “Pension Awareness” been gazumped by the “Pay your Pension some Attention” campaign (again)?
I have to admit to being a fan of making people aware of pensions. I have supported the pension geeks in their endeavours since 2014 and hope that since they were bought up by Aegon and Aegon has been bought … Continue reading
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Lumera – what happened to your thirst for Swedish, Danish and Dutch pensions?
Lumera seem to have given up on collective pensions as something they can teach us about! Last year I spoke with them because an employer asked me to. The employer knew that Lumera were operating down the east coast of … Continue reading
People cannot allow despair to overtake their retirement hope.
I have met a few people when advising who have given up on retirement because they see the pension system working against them. Some of them have given up on work – at least in the paid sense. I have … Continue reading
When only 8 to 15 mega-trusts dominate the entire defined contribution (DC) and LGPS landscape, peer-group risk may override manager…