The self-employed commonly have very lumpy income streams plus periods of feast and famine. Their lack of income security means…
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Tag Archives: #pensions
Do markets actually work in pensions?
The markets do NOT work in pensions; our trade association has to address the problem we have with turning pots to pensions. “Outcomes” are currently unsatisfactory. Continue reading
Did the financial industry close private DB schemes and SERPS?
the financial service companies, as they once explained to me, hated DB because it wasn’t a product they could replicate. They preferred to provide pots, taking a fee for AUM, leaving all the risk on the working man/woman. Continue reading
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Tagged #pensions, Business, DB, Financial services, Government, Pensions, workplace Pensions
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How AI found the PPI’s DC Future Book (2026)
I would characterise the report as: excellent descriptive epidemiology of the DC patient, but insufficiently critical diagnosis of the disease. Continue reading
Gordon Aitken’s video explains how DC is returning pensions to growth…
For Aitken, the future for equities and growth is in DC pensions; I’ll extend his optimism with CDC (which is even less dependent on de-risking than DC). Continue reading
The guilt we have with pensions is like our guilt about the gym – Torsten Bell
It’s good to see the Pensions Minister sees the problems with pensions like our problems with going to the gym. We know we should get stuck in but… Continue reading
“Investors must back Britain or lose their tax breaks”, says James Ashton
This is an article by Daily Mail business writer Ruth Sutherland about James Ashton and hit take on investment in the UK – pension investment in particular. It come a couple of months before the budget and I hope is … Continue reading
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Tagged #pensions, AIM, Easyjet, James Ashton, Nick Train, Pensions, Ruth Suterland
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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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Tagged #pensions, ABI, pension, Pension Awareness, Pension Awareness Day, Pensions UK
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US employers can’t tell if their DC plans are working- just like us!
This is an extraordinary finding by WTW. It says a lot about the inability of those paying into so called pensions and the “value for money” calculation! WTW’s work tells me that the great experiment in providing people with … Continue reading
Chicago’s cavalier funding of its pension promise; compare to the funding of LGPS
Here’s a pension crisis waiting to happen “Anything and everything is on the table because we do have to stabilise the city’s finances,” What is being talked of is Chicago’s pension promises. The FT reports the words of it’s Mayoral … Continue reading
Why do employers and employees not pay more for pensions?
I’m amazed that the news that we aren’t paying enough into our “pension” is a surprise. This report may have been a “labour of love” but it doesn’t “amaze”. The title of Pension UK’s report is Closing the gaps: … Continue reading
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