Tag Archives: VFM

Richard Smith’s Free Coffee Morning link is here! 10.30 this morning

Why is he being called into every conversation? It’s because he is an unbiased commentator on the state of pensions, of the pension dashboards and of how we will be getting a lifetime income when we retire. Continue reading →

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Is TPR waking up to VFM? Isn’t it the pension we’ll be defaulted into buying?

Emma Douglas needs to extend TPR’s VFM thinking to the pensions offered by default. She’s getting there. Continue reading →

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Richard Smith’s everywhere but nowhere more accessible than tomorrow at 10.30 am!

Even when Richard’s not there in presence he seems to be there in spirit! I’ve listened to 90 minutes of the VFM podcast where he gets more mentions than Arsenal. Continue reading →

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WTW’s Glyn Bradley tells the podcast that VFM should measure pension as a service.

In this episode of V-FM Pensions hosts Darren and Nico talk to WTW Senior Director and Chair of the IFoA Pensions Board, Glyn Bradley. Continue reading →

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TPR – can we have VFM scores at half time and full time!

We want scores at full time not just half time. Can we have results in a league table so savers can figure out the Value For their Money? Continue reading →

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Will Sandbrook and “happiness” as a measure for VFM

How can all this money being spent by Will and the other Thinkers” be credited as “value”. Can it be justified as “happiness” and if so- to who?  Continue reading →

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Brian Henderson’s view of VFM for those getting a retirement income.

I do like Brian and his recent work features on my blog because it is sane and soothes the troubled brows of those like the intrepid hosts of this pod. Continue reading →

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When triple-lock goes, it should be replaced by certainty for our children and theirs.

Claer Barrett is right to question the need for the state pension to increase in real terms (faster than inflation). This is the debate about the triple lock. But Claer extends this discussion of the need to slow down real … Continue reading →

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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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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 →

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