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A positive week for Britain and for pensions
I am now back from Scotland, I had a positive time up there in the company of people who were running their DB pension schemes on. These included the universities at Belfast and Cardiff who have schemes for their non-teaching … Continue reading
A posh stay on the banks of Loch Lomond
I am off early this morning on the Easy Jet to Glasgow, taxied on to the Cameron House on Loch Lomond. I have an opportunity to meet with old friends and hear new ideas in a place well above … Continue reading
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Sarah Smart to move on from TPR in July
Sarah Smart is leaving the Pensions Regulator. I have recently written about the tremendous impact she has made to Pensions and to many like me. This is what the Pension Regulator’s press release has to say Chair of … Continue reading
Is spring in the air at TPR – (an organisational announcement that prompts three questions).
It’s encouraging to read that the Pensions Regulator is reorganising. The Pensions Regulator makes strategic shift in its oversight of the workplace pensions market But there are questions we should be asking about the “strategic shift” and these three come … Continue reading
Keating and Clacher explain the threat from the proposed DWP funding regulations
DB Funding Regulations The story so far The DB Funding Code is back on the agenda following the DWP’s draft funding regulations and comments in the FT from TPR Chair, Sarah Smart. The proposals have brought a number of criticisms … Continue reading
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Tagged Con Keating, DB, DWP, Funding Code, Iain Clacher, Pensions, Sarah Smart, TPR
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Charles Counsell hands on the poisoned chalice
It’s been a year since TPR appointed Sarah Smart as Chair and her anniversary is marked by news that Charles Counsell will not be seeking a second four year term as CEO. Sarah Smart brought youth and feminity to a … Continue reading
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Tagged auto enrolment, CDC, Charles Counsell, DB funding, decumulation, Sarah Smart, TPR
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Double-barreled female success!
It’s been a good week for strong women, Westminster has one more female MP and Sarah and Emma have topped the pension appointment pages. They are contemporaries of mine and two people whose company I enjoy, they are showing that … Continue reading