Tag Archives: PLSA

Why I’m going to #PLSAinvest24 next month

Posted on January 21, 2024 by henry tapper

It may be expensive, it may be time-consuming and it may be awash with alcohol, but the PLSA investment conference at the end of February is a must-do – do On the buy-side are the paying members of the PLSA … Continue reading →

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Pension schemes baulk at cleaning up other people’s mess

Posted on October 19, 2023 by henry tapper

The serene atmosphere of day one of the PLSA conference did not last. The second day saw the Government coming for pension scheme money and the mood in the hall turn sour. If you want to win these friends and … Continue reading →

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Trott keeps her powder dry

Posted on October 18, 2023 by henry tapper

This may be the last PLSA conference of this parliament. It may be the last conference in which Pension Minister Laura Trott is in that role. Consensus is that in the short time she has held the brief she has … Continue reading →

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PLSA is back with a bang; annual conference packed and joyful.

Posted on October 18, 2023 by henry tapper

A room full of people, an exhibition hall packed with stands and people getting on with meeting up. This is how the NAPF conferences used to be.  The feelgood factor is vak at th PLSA Annual Conference 2023 and the … Continue reading →

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Enthusiasm can get you there – LGPS at LGC Leeds

Posted on September 8, 2023 by henry tapper

  I was sitting at a reception at the end of a packed day of debate that included a dance class and intense discussion. Into the room walked Tom McPhail – looking bemused. Within minutes he was listening to a … Continue reading →

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Ten reasons why low-earners should not be auto-enrolled

Posted on August 22, 2023 by henry tapper

This blog asks questions about how best to deal with genuine poverty. The financial services answer has been  “financial empowerment” , saving our way out of debt. It is a flawed idea, ask those just getting by. Here are my … Continue reading →

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Risk averse regulators now need to celebrate risk

Posted on August 17, 2023 by henry tapper

At the PLSA investment conference earlier this year, Treasury secretary , Andrew Griffiths, told his audience they should celebrate our economic successes and in particular encourage the risk taking that creates them. In retrospect, we can see him laying the … Continue reading →

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“There is no such thing as passive Paris alignment” LGPS urged to embrace scope 4

Posted on June 27, 2023 by henry tapper

This is one of a number of short blogs I am producing , reporting on the issues dominating the PLSA’s Local Authority Pensions Conference being held between Cirencester and Cricklade in the Cotswolds Water Park. Till recently, LGPS was thought … Continue reading →

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A proposal to Treasury to improve DC defaults (and saver outcomes)

Posted on June 8, 2023 by henry tapper

The big issue for the PLSA conference and indeed the PLSA is how it should respond to the Government’s call to celebrate risk and reintroduce it into the pension schemes within its scope. There have been calls for the mandation … Continue reading →

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Will the PLSA recognise the pension investment agenda has changed?

Posted on May 29, 2023 by henry tapper

For a second time in a row, a PLSA  Conference will take place at a time of national debate about the impact of pension investment on the economy. The last Conference in October coincided with the BOE’s purchase period of … Continue reading →

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