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…
That is a good point about the ordinary person/voter due to being too poor to get interested in political donations.…
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For data reasons the lawyers can’t let us have a single DC savings regulator.
Hywel offers a fine observation based on the dim and distant days when he was a junior pension lawyer. It has been a long time since we had a “DC pension”. Not since the days of 226 plans where the … Continue reading
Hugh Cutler – another brilliant mind baffled by drawdown.
This morning I find not one but two brilliant thinkers struggling with “drawdown from a pot” as a way to pay themselves and others a wage in retirement. Here is Hugh Cutler explaining the problem of doing this yourself! Can … Continue reading
Should “unicorn” stocks be held for growth in pension funds?
Let’s not pretend that as retail investors , we know what we’re doing when we’re playing with unicorns! We want to hand the job of investing in “unicorn”stocks not yet on our public markets to specialists. Meanwhile we want to … Continue reading
Myopia and the alternative fact
Not all prejudice is ill-intentioned, I know the author of this comment on a recent blog. He is not ill-intentioned – just short-sighted. There is no one interested to have defined benefit pensions in the UK. They are seem as … Continue reading
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This is clearly a serious story about institutional accountability, bankruptcy and the treatment of former employees. But, although the immediate…