My personal situation is that case study, with one employer offering pension contributions themselves plus salary sacrifice for mine and…
It is revealing when the independent commentators take a strong side. And thenk you for this helpful perspective.
I cannot imagine there are many 75 year olds who see using an occupational or workplace pension as a way…
Ships of state need time to turn and cannot respond to 24 hour news especially when the destination is ill…
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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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Tagged Derek scott, Ephemeral, Mineworker, pension, pension surplus, real assets, Scheme, Surplus
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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
The horror of letting the taxman take your unspent pension pot!
I have swum in a pool where mournful pensioners refill the water level with their tears. Bless Steve Hunt and all the others in that swimming pool. Open the article for page after page of indignation at the treasury’s designs … Continue reading
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