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Pension schemes baulk at cleaning up other people’s mess
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
Trott keeps her powder dry
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
PLSA is back with a bang; annual conference packed and joyful.
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
Enthusiasm can get you there – LGPS at LGC Leeds
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
Ten reasons why low-earners should not be auto-enrolled
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
Risk averse regulators now need to celebrate risk
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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Tagged andrew griffiths, change mindset, Mindset, Pensions, PLSA, TPR
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“There is no such thing as passive Paris alignment” LGPS urged to embrace scope 4
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
A proposal to Treasury to improve DC defaults (and saver outcomes)
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
Will the PLSA recognise the pension investment agenda has changed?
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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Tagged Business, dc pensions, Pension new, Pensions, PLSA, politics, Retirement
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The give and take of workplace pensions (it can’t all be “done for us!”)
“Done for you” has become an over-worked phrase in a very short time. I started using it to refer to the CDC decumulation solution discussed by Simon Eagle and others where CDC becomes another investment pathway – with the pension … Continue reading
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Tagged ABI, auto-enrolment, Debbie fielder, DWP, Hymans Robertson, Laura Trott, PLSA, WPC
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