Tag Archives: TPT

TPT on the VFM podcast (DB, DC , mastertrust, superfund and CDC)

I think I deserve a medal for lasting the full 83 minutes + of this blog  but I did and though it didn’t talk about what I wanted to know more about (CDC and superfunds), it was good to hear … Continue reading

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Don’t make trophies of your CDC trustees – TPT!

TPR would like us to be impressed. TPT thought it warranted a press release , they wanted headlines in the trade press- they got them. This was marketing. I’m not impressed by using Trustee appointments as marketing. The trustees TPT … Continue reading

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The Pension Trust could run a Pension Superfund

You can read the press release from TPT about the £1bn launch being planned. I have worked with Edi Truell and know his intentions were to share returns from the Pension Superfund he wanted to launch with members. Sadly this … Continue reading

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Some alternative ideas to excite workplace pensions!

I have been looking at my diary over the past two weeks and the week to come and I find all the excitement has come and is coming from meetings with the author if SeLFIES, the folk down at Nest … Continue reading

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Master trusts get a gentle kick up the bum!

  The Mansion House reforms are giving workplace pensions a welcome kick up the bum. I can see four strategies taking hold over the next 12 months Renovation through acquisition Re-energising pensions for small employers A flight to quality for … Continue reading

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The cost of living crisis – and the value of small pots

This IMF chart is (rightly) getting a lot of attention given the UK figures are truly awful. But why are they so bad? Because this is what happens when you add an energy price surge onto a country with our … Continue reading

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Stop scamming – by giving people better choice.

I’m a fan of Government intervening to stop scamming. It’s good that the FT on.ft.com/2P1VT5c  and BBC are reporting “SCAMSMART” the FCA’s new initiative to stop scamming. But this intervention has to be accompanied by positive action from the private sector. People … Continue reading

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