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I give up on VFM for pensions and so does Guy Opperman, I like the guy!
I don’t suppose that former Minister Guy Opperman knew he would be reported at the Aptia conference yesterday. He works for them a couple of days a month and was delivering the kind of comments that would have gone down … Continue reading
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Tagged Aptia, Business, CDC, DWP, FCA, Guy Opperman, pension, Pensions, Retirement, TPR, Value for Money, VFM
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Alternative ways to listen to Nico, Darren and now Richard and friends.
I am pleased that Darren and Nico have answered the questions that have been put to them but slightly disappointed that more challenging questions have not been asked. Here are the questioners who have been answered in one go though … Continue reading
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Tagged Darren, Nico, Questions, Richard, Richard Smith, VFM, VFM podcast
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How well did your wealth manager really perform in 2025?
I do not often consider wealth management, I neither manage it or have management to have managed. Robin Powell comments on this world and as a friend I read what he says. You can do here in a blog he … Continue reading
Can DC pensions invest for growth or should we move to CDC?
The questions discussed on the VFM blog have so far been rather less than challenging. I posted my review of the latest podcast yesterday and got this question on my blog. John is an IFA who started in the mid … Continue reading
Questions to the VFM boys
I’ve listened to the V-FM Pensions #154 at which point the boys start answering the numerous questions that have followed their plea for an interrogation. Let’s be clear , this is the AI summary, not the inspiration of the boys. … Continue reading
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