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The VFM 2, LCP partners and Brian Henderson;- 3 visions for retirement! The 4th’s from employers and unions – to come!
Having been fairly stuck in driving forwards a pension solution (a collective pension) for the past few weeks, I took an afternoon with the foot off the accelerator peddle to consider three discussions of the state of pension. The first … Continue reading
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Tagged Brian Henderson, LCP, pension value chain, Pensions, Retirement, VFM
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CAPAdata creates a workplace pension benchmark to judge VFM with.
Below is Corporate Adviser’s good news for those measuring the performance of workplace pension money. I find it extraordinary that this is not getting more publicity but suspect that where it should be news , this is seen as competition. … Continue reading
“VFM framework” should follow horse racing’s Time Form and focus on winners and losers!
It’s the last week in August, so time to drag up the longest running failure to deliver we’ve ever had. Superfunds? Small pot consolidation? Pension Dashboards? VFM assessments? We are not getting good ideas into action. It has not been … Continue reading
Brian Henderson asks whether CDC gives you better VFM than DC – it depends!
You can download the document for yourself from here. Here is Brian’s introduction on social media
How do we work out how much is being paid for the management of private market assets?
It’s good to see Standard Life posting a good article on the management of funds holding assets not quoted in public markets. Are we getting value for the money we pay managers, let alone the assets that they manage? This … Continue reading
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Tagged Callum Stewart, carry, Fees, private markets, Standard Life, VFM
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Value for money from Private Equity – or a “stonk”? A stonk?
I like the FT and I like Alan Livsey but I sometimes get left behind by his articles! What is a stonk and why is it hard to benchmark the performance of held equity in private companies? I turned to … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Livsey, Benchmark, ft, Pensions, Performance, Private Equity, stonk, VFM
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TPR – comfortable that VFM will help people make decisions – (they listen to the “right channels”)
In this episode of V-FM Pensions, hosts Darren and Nico chat to The Pensions Regulator’s Ben Gunnee. As well as being an Arsenal fan, Ben is TPR’s Executive Director for Market Oversight and is responsible for TPR’s engagement and interaction … Continue reading
“Are consumers being taken for a ride on price comparison sites?” asks Johnny Timpson
Johnny Timpson is one of our greatest consumers champions and he doesn’t get the recognition that he and his work deserve, Last week he was serving consumers well again. This weekend , I’ve been arguing that Moneysupermarket could be broadening … Continue reading
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Tagged defaqto, Healthcare, Johnny Timpson, MoneySupermarket, Peter Duffy, VFM
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Are different supermarket’s strawberries fungible? Is there VFM but in price?
I have been pondering this, My partner, who doesn’t like strawberries says they are and I say that Waitrose No 1 strawberries are different and are not fungible with Aldi strawberries which are half the price. I want to have … Continue reading
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Tagged chris sier, fungibility, Investopedia, jo cumbo, Strawberries, VFM
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