Tag Archives: TUC
A day when CDC was dragged into PUK’s hall!
I make no defence for being in Edinburgh to right an unintentional bias in the conference agenda that neglects the arrival of CDC as a new force in Pensions UK. We have £1.2tr in funded DB pensions and future liabilities … Continue reading
Spring statement from the Pensions Minister
I was not able to go to the Trades Union Conference but I could watch it from afar and did, oddly from Bishopsgate where a separate conference was talking about pension administration. Torsten Bell talked of pension administration and I’ll … Continue reading
TUC says all Trustee boards should have member representing trustees
This blog is by Sandra Wolf of Mallowstreet The pensions system largely functions well, some in the pensions industry have said in response to a governance consultation by the Department for Work and Pensions closing on Thursday but suggest extra rules … Continue reading
Why unions should take CDC to employers and their under pensioned members
A large part of the British workforce have trade unions working for them to provide them with decent conditions at work, pay for work and benefits when work ends and retirement begins. We had in unionised companies a DB culture … Continue reading
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Member voice in Pension Schemes Bill? Jack Jones of TUC – Christopher Brooks of- Age UK
The link is here- Christopher’s spelling is wrong above. There is a question from the shadow pension minister on the voice of ordinary people on how funds are invested. It is hard to see (without view of the speakers) who … Continue reading
What are Labour going to do about pensions?
If there is a Labour Pensions Agenda for the next Government , I haven’t seen it yet . But I have seen the TUC’s agenda for the Trade Union Pension Conference today and it doesn’t look like this. It … Continue reading
Budget a “no score draw” for growth – Haldane
Andy Haldane seems to be Rachel Reeves’ favorite economist. They worked together at the Bank of England and he now runs the Royal Society of the Arts, a kind of think-tank that is left-leaning enough not to annoy her … Continue reading
Prospect – a great union moving pensions forward
If there’s one union that can be relied on for information about pensions, it’s Prospect. As part of its DB inquiry, the @CommonsWorkPen has asked the PPF to update its analysis of providing indexation in respect of pension accrued … Continue reading
Evolve dissolved;- the unions walk out on workplace pensions
The eventual purchase of Evolve by Smart last week marks the end of commercial involvement in master trusts by trade unions. Evolve (the funder of BlueSky and Crystal master trusts) was owned by Unite and Select (the Scottish Joint … Continue reading
Out from the eye of the storm
Predictably, the PLSA called upon the Bank of England to provide ongoing support for the pension funds which had either directly or through pooled funds, geared up their bond exposure through “borrowing”. “Borrowing” is what the Bank of England thinks … Continue reading