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Benefits are one thing, pensions are quite another.
Mark Pemberthy is a benefits guy, has been for decades and he’s one of the auto-enrolment guys who in has been an LBG financial adviser and since auto-enrolment got done has got into communicating benefits for clients who can afford … Continue reading
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Tagged auto enrolment, Business, Investment, National Employment Savings Trust, TPR, Treasury
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How political can LGPS get! Let’s rid it of localism.
The Andrew Gwynne affair seems to have something to do with pensions, as Michael Crick reports. Tameside runs the Greater Manchester local government scheme, the largest in the UK. The gov want it to invest for growth but local councillors … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, DWP, Employment, Financial services, LGPS, pension, Pensions, Treasury, workplace Pensions
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Right analysis+razor sharp solutions…needed by TPR
The last 7 days have had me listening for 3 hours to a former executive and the current Chair of TPR and I find myself deflated. Here is a former TPR worker on my comments about David Fairs last … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Haldane, Business, Business and Economy, dc pensions, Defined benefit pension plan, DWP, Employment, pension, Pension Regulator, Pensions, Retirement, Treasury
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A Treasury that criticises regulators for not taking risk?
I am not a regular reader of Investment Week but maybe I should have. Here is the former pensions minister, now City Minister, telling an audience that they should stop sitting on their and their clients money and putting it … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, DWP, Emma Reynolds, Employment, Financial services, Government, HM Treasury, pension, Treasury
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The power of what we are.
It is a shame that while we are trying to find ways to grow our economy thinking long-term (pension funded) we are fearing short term tariffs from the USA as if our financial futures depended on the whims of a … Continue reading
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Tagged advice, Government, Insurance, pension, politics, social media, Treasury
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Julian Mund at Mowbray; PLSA local and global
I have written plenty about John Hamilton’s speech at Melton Mowbray, But it was not just John on stage at the PLSA East Midlands event. Preceding John was the PLSA’s CEO and I’m pleased he’s sent me his slides for … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, Business and Economy, corporate risk, Defined benefit pension plan, Pensions, TPR, Treasury, workplace Pensions
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Is Reeves condemning the “de-risking” of pensions?
There has been considerable response to last night’s blog Field called our DB pensions “an economic miracle”….Reeves knows why. It explains how a speech including a call to reinvest pension surpluses in company and economic growth. It’s worth reading and … Continue reading
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Tagged annuity, Business and Economy, corporate governance, corporate risk, DB, de-risking, Defined benefit pension plan, pension, Pension Regulator, Pensions, TPR, Treasury
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We need our banks to step up and help out.
This is hard to explain, which is why the article is in the FT and not in other papers. The people who read the FT understand how the Bank of England sets interest rates and can work out that right … Continue reading
Bim gets his feet out of the “wet cement of institutional rigidity”
Last week I reported on Bim Afolami’s bold bold new approach to regulating the regulators This week , I decided to pedal over to Old Queen Street, by the Treasury, to witness this wise-cracking lawyer, banker and now Minister in … Continue reading
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Tagged Bim Afolami, regulation, safest graveyard, Treasury, wet cement
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Cost disclosure for investment trusts – Treasury takes charge
Following Ros Altmann and Sharon Bowles assault on the misinterpretation of EU regulation over investment trust cost disclosure, I understand that the matter was also discussed in the House of Commons , drawing this comment on linked in. Investment … Continue reading
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Tagged Investment companies, Investment trust, Pensions, Treasury
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