"A couple might scrape together a combined private capital base of £240,000 provides only around £9,600 to £11,000 per year…
Aitken is most concerned with life insurers/assurers. Warren Buffett invested in non-life insurers for their distinctive economics, particularly the investment…
Agreed - though the contribution rates into private sector DB when we were accruing was often less than deficit payments…
my point is a simple one. Apart from DB pension provision in the U.K. is a disgrace Individual Median Pension…
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Dashboard – don’t keep me waiting!
Richard Smith’s never far from this blog’s beating pulse. This morning a link to this remarkable post on linked in , arrived in my WhatsApp queue. I haven’t kept it waiting, Thanks Richard and thanks to everyone who seems to … Continue reading
What a Convention can miss but Richard Smith can deliver!
Pension Playpen 14 Oct 2025 – Dashboards slides no GIF Richard Smith was a wonder yesterday morning The slides presented to us grabbed our attention but nothing like Richard’s enthusiasm for a project that frankly has no deadline for delivery … Continue reading
Pension Dashboard – Richard Smith – 10.30 today – free ticket inside
Richard’s coming to our coffee morning to repeat his triumphal sessions over the past five years. Richard is the genuine item and a friend to Pension PlayPen. He has agreed to attend at short notice and I hope we … Continue reading
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“Data will be a Game Changer”; Richard Smith
Data is a game changer – it’s changed my view of Lerwick in Shetland. I’d never thought of it in the same “wave” as St Helier in Jersey. Richard’s coming to our coffee morning to repeat his triumphal sessions over … Continue reading
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“Dashboards will be a Game Changer”; Richard Smith – Tuesday
Richard’s coming to our coffee morning to repeat his triumphal sessions over the past five years. Richard is the genuine item and a friend to Pension PlayPen. He has agreed to attend at short notice and I hope we … Continue reading
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Is “dashboard” the right name? Richard’s journey says yes.
What the dashboard does. The pension dashboard is going to tell us is the value of what we have built up as estimated retirement income ((ERI). This is not a projection but a statement of what you could expect to … Continue reading
One from your dashboard butler- “you’ve got a payment waiting from HMRC”
Next year two things will happen that will be of particular interest to low earners who cannot afford advisers and could do with any money that can come their way. The pension dashboard will launch, allowing people to trace money … Continue reading
Get on the “Smith Express”
Samantha is a sharp journalist who worked flat out last week, I know, I watched her the few times I was in the press room. She also found time to collar Richard Smith and this is what she wrote in … Continue reading
Dashboard dizzy day! Smith, Gubler and others stalk Parliament!
It’s a busy morning with the Pensions Minister talking in the City and Richard Smith, Kim Gubler and a host of others speaking at Westminster on what should be done with the dashboard. Meeting starts at 9.15am – you can … Continue reading
Richard Smith reaches Oslo – will he return our dashboard Czar?
For those who have been enjoying Richard Smith’s European Odyssey, here is his latest report -from Oslo Here’s what the Norwegian dashboard looks like and here are the people that Richard met. What is coming out of these visits is … Continue reading
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The image of pension professionals putting on their stout boots to face the snow is a good reminder that preparation…