Tag Archives: VFM
Your Pension Needs an Effectiveness Screen using Five Simple Questions
If you’re saving into a workplace pension, you’ll have no idea whether your retirement savings are being managed well or badly. The costs might be reasonable or extortionate. The investment strategy might be serving your interests or someone else’s. Your … Continue reading
We will get VFM when IGCs and Trustees are independent.
This blog argues that advisers have no business interfering in the IGC’s and Trustee’s analysis of VFM. Jonathan Parker: Value for money back under the spotlight I have since their formation in 2015, thought IGCs in the pocket of the … Continue reading
Do we need VFM reports to consolidate small DC schemes?
The Pensions Regulator lays out what we have left of DC Occupational Pension Schemes The TPR’s take on its work Brighton seems pretty content with the state of our workplace pension market , for private DC schemes it looks like … Continue reading
Samantha Gould – a cosmopolitan-glamorous guest for Nico and Darren
Sam Gould is Nico and Darren’s guest this week and she turns up excited and genned up about how to behave. I’m pleased to see her thoughts and those of her companions are constrained to just over an hour! Darren … Continue reading
The nightmare of VFM for commercial DC schemes
Katie smith speaks for Aegon when she calls for a 2 year trial period before VFM bites. She calls it a “trial period” and it’s an attempt to kill VFM before it kills providers. Here she is in Corporate … Continue reading
A VFM podcast that got me comparing football ticket prices!
I was, what I rarely am,” knackered ” last night. So I switched on Nico and Darren’s chat box podcast expecting to hear an outside voice but heard instead a rehearse of the previous conversation about the VFM consultation. The … Continue reading
A VFM podcast that eased my savaged brow.
I was, what I rarely am,” knackered ” last night. So I switched on Nico and Darren’s chat box podcast expecting to hear an outside voice but heard instead a rehearse of the previous conversation about the VFM consultation. The … Continue reading
Value for Money matters in housing as it does in pensions.
There is a congruence between the FT and the Guardian about the financial impact of allowing value of leasehold is falling most dramatic in London but now all over Britain. This is a pension blog, but we must remember that … Continue reading
Rory Murphy with the VFM lads – collective pensions as I imagine them!
This article was originally published on Saturday but as no-one read it then, here it is on a Monday, Rory is a serious voice for the union and Darren and Nico do a good job allowing him to explain how … Continue reading
Performance evaluation for WTP (the Dutch pensions law)
Rogier Swierstra describes this blog as “A bonus post for English-language readers, but still largely incomprehensible”. You can find it in its original here. I thank him for his heroic modesty and have changed the title as most people don’t … Continue reading