I think the Mineworker's surplus distribution is probably going to prove one of the most significant announcements in the budget.…
There are problems with swapping pots for pensions when you are running your CDC plan the way that Royal Mail's…
https://rmcollectiveplan.com/other-pensions "Currently, you are not able to transfer other pensions into the Collective Plan. If this changes in the future,…
Oops! Sorry about the duplicate. When I hit "send" the first time, it came back with "get lost, too many…
Tag Archives: VFM
Mark Searle’s VFM podcast – well worth listening to.
Mark Searle is not someone I know – but I’d like to! He appears on this VFM podcast and talks with good sense about what is likely to happen to the money we have invested in pensions. He was at … Continue reading
Helen Forrest Hall may brighten light at PMI
I did not have the opportunity to go to PMI’s DC and Master Trust Symposium last week. If I had , and stayed close to my colleague Philip Persson , I’d have met Helen Forrest Hall who leads these things … Continue reading
Value for morning with a true communicator.
I’m doing a morning listening to Ian Beestin on the VFM podcast. I’ve been listening to all these pods but frankly I haven’t had a good reason to bring your attention to them, the hosts have interesting people but they … Continue reading
Regulators who protect pensions not themselves
I liked listening to Robin Ellison talk with Nico Aspinall and Darren Philp on their VFM- Pensions the podcast The conversion is varied and mixes insights with levity allowing its 85 minutes to be a good listen. Robin has one … Continue reading
When money is no object…
This bill’s been floating around social media for a couple of years and floated onto my linked in timeline, a welcome diversion from glamorous marketing people showing off awards for financial services to the hospitality industry. I think it very … Continue reading
Time for some “hard-working” on VFM – says TPR.
There’s a telling sentence in Nina Blackett’s blog on VFM , published yesterday by TPR In January 2023, we published our joint industry consultation on a value for money (VFM) framework. Now, the FCA, working with TPR and DWP, has … Continue reading
NOW worry about the cost of the VFM Framework – I’m not surprised!
Lizzie Holliday worries that the cost of measuring value for money might outweigh its value. If I were Lizzie I’d keep my head down and look for a better job. Lizzie works for NOW pensions and I wonder if the cost … Continue reading
Why I see VFM as a necessary challenge to complacency
Timing It is well over a year that we have been discussing VFM in pensions. The Pensions Minister congregated the great and the good on 26th January 2023 to tell us it was coming and the first consultation arrived the … Continue reading
Look no LTAF! XPS delivers DC illiquids through a blended fund.
It is heartwarming to see a pension consultant designing a product for the good of savers who otherwise might get left behind. Much is made of consolidation of DC pension schemes but there is a core of smaller DC schemes … Continue reading
Paying better pensions when you can!
Martin Freeman is a long-time friend so I’m loathe to call him on pension issues but I’d like him to look at this photo and ask him what he sees. Is he looking at a group of over-privileged pensioners eager … Continue reading
With no mines left - who's there to pay out this surplus to than the former mineworkers. I wonder if…