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Pensions screwing leaseholders? We say- “cap freeholder fees”!

I have received a message from my friend Harry Scoffin, a young man who spoke at Pension PlayPen on rapacious behaviour of freeholders to leaseholders. Here’s what young Harry has sent me This has just dropped in the FT tonight: … Continue reading →

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Patrick Heath-Lay calls for simplicity – for his 7 million savers.

AgeWage has been a lonely beacon bleeping a signal of tsunamis over the past 8 years.  The warning is that the billions of money building up in workplace pensions is not assessed by trustees, employers or members for the value … Continue reading →

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DB, DC, CDC? Just “pensions” – judged by VFM

It is interesting to hear comments on the Pension UK Conference from Nico Aspinall and Darren Philp  I was aware that Nico was at the Conference but unaware of “the fringe” that Darren was at. To me, the Conference was … Continue reading →

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Instaviduals? How you get Pension VFM out of geo political conferences. Indeed.

Sophie Baker, South Londoner and Crystal Palace fan (funny how there are suddenly so many of them right now) is on the VFM podcast. Sophie is a journalist for a mag I’ve never read but which runs a Linked In … Continue reading →

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Warning – advert – but a good one – from down under!

I’m interested in how Australia is working out “value for money” as millions of Australians move towards a retirement (epic or otherwise). Here is a rare advert for this blog but I am supporting Bec Wilson as she goes to … Continue reading →

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Aviva’s IGC; a good quality life company promoting itself through its IGC!

Aviva have delivered their IGC report and it’s a thorough piece of work. You can download it here or read it in full from this blog The marketing of these reports seems to depend on very relaxed executives in casual … Continue reading →

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L&G IGC report – advanced tech but short on our VFM info!

I’m a policyholder with L&G and have just over £600,000 having taken over £180,000 this time last year to pay off my mortgage. The IGC is my means of understanding what is going on at L&G and I’m looking forward … Continue reading →

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Its DATA can measure if your “pension” gives Value for Money

Most of us have some benefits at retirement due to us from savings we and our employer have made on our behalf. A record of the amounts paid and what they bought by way of units in funds is held … Continue reading →

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Value for Money for the taxpayer from the pension system

I look forward to July 1st and the possibility that the next Mansion House Speech will bring forward progress towards a Britain properly funded and partially funded by pensions. I get this from Ros Altmann We have the text of … Continue reading →

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Kevin Hollister – “VFM is a good product for free!”

It was really good to hear Kevin Hollister explain Guiide on the VFM podcast this week. I don’t think that any guest of Nico and Darren has taken more of the podcast than Kevin does and he talks about what … Continue reading →

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