Here is a video of yesterday’s discussion from the Pension PlayPen’s Coffee Morning (November 25th) Yesterday’s discussion focussed on an agenda put together by Professor Michael …

Here is a video of yesterday’s discussion from the Pension PlayPen’s Coffee Morning (November 25th) Yesterday’s discussion focussed on an agenda put together by Professor Michael …

Here is a video of yesterday's discussion from the Pension PlayPen's Coffee Morning (November 25th) Yesterday's discussion focussed on an agenda put together by Professor Michael Bromwich To hear what a large group of pension professionals had to make of that, watch this video provided by the Pension PlayPen , whose coffee morning was hosted by Steve Goddard and conducted in conjunction with a group roughly called a "panel"

While you are having your breakfast, here’s a harrowing tale of trouble for leaseholders. If you’re a leaseholder – is there hope? If you are making money out of owning freeholds,…

While you are having your breakfast, here's a harrowing tale of trouble for leaseholders. If you're a leaseholder - is there hope? If you are making money out of owning freeholds, does the budget fill you with horror?

I am very pleased to see a story on the importance of our stock markets to our economic well-being. A couple of weeks back the London Stock Exchange organised a group of the CEOs of companies quote…

I read this and thought – this is what I want to know! Thanks to Gordon Aiken, I can bring you the views of someone who really understand List 2025 and what BPA insurers should do now. Note: …

I read this and thought – this is what I want to know! Thanks to Gordon Aiken, I can bring you the views of someone who really understand List 2025 and what BPA insurers should do now. Note: …

I read this and thought – this is what I want to know! Thanks to Gordon Aiken, I can bring you the views of someone who really understand List 2025 and what BPA insurers should do now. Note: …

I am not a member nor have ever worked for the LGPS, its funds or employers or even their members. But I have worked with many people who do and hope that we will offer these stakeholders in public sector funded pensions, help in the years to come. My friend Robert Gardner pointed out the South Yorkshire pension fund as an example of what a pension fund can do, it is helping the east coast of England repopulate oysters and thus improve the natural culture - its "infrastructure"

I am very pleased to see a story on the importance of our stock markets to our economic well-being. A couple of weeks back the London Stock Exchange organised a group of the CEOs of companies quoted on its tiers of markets to call on Government to legislate so that pension funds get tax-payers support for schemes that invest through the UK market in companies quote on it,

I read this and thought - this is what I want to know! But you don't have to wait, thanks to Gordon Aiken, I can bring you the views who really understand this. Note: These are Gordon Aiken's personal views and do not constitute investment advice. See full disclaimer below. In football, there comes a point where a team stops trying to score and simply 

I have just been in a dismal webinar considering the prospects of us having a "good budget". If I was investing in any sector the "day before", it would be the manufacturers of razor blades. Expectations for Britain’s autumn Budget on Wednesday are decidedly downbeat. Few anticipate that chancellor Rachel Reeves will unveil the productivity-boosting or cost-cutting measures the country so desperately needs to escape from its rut of sluggish growth, shaky public finances and rising taxes.

Andy Smith has provided this excellent take on the “LIST” The PRA has today published the insurer-specific results from the 2025 Life Insurer Stress Test (LIST). While the aggregate pic…

Andy Smith has provided this excellent take on the "LIST" The PRA has today published the insurer-specific results from the 2025 Life Insurer Stress Test (LIST). While the aggregate picture shows the sector remaining comfortably above regulatory minimums - with total Solvency Capital Requirement (SCR) coverage moving from 185% pre-stress to 154% post-stress - the firm-level outcomes vary markedly. The clear message from these is that the UK life insurers are strong, but not uniform. 

From 2028, many pensioners whose sole income is the full state pension may become liable for tax, if the personal allowance threshold remains frozen at £12,570. What is given in state pension will …

I am in workplace pensions and am doing my best to avoid the pre-retirement strategies of my two providers, one Nest , the other L&G. But wherever I look at alternatives, I find little coherenc…

My Mum’s one of these women, perhaps your mother is, watch the video. It is not just Steve Webb at his best (he is consistently at his best) but it tells you why your Mum/Grandma is or was on…

My Mum's one of these women, perhaps your mother is, watch the video. It is not just Steve Webb at his best (he is consistently at his best) but it tells you why your Mum/Grandma is or was on a crap state pension. It also explains why, given half a choice, most of us will do the easiest thing about pensions because pensions are too hard.

I am in workplace pensions and am doing my best to avoid the pre-retirement strategies of my two providers, one Nest , the other L&G. But wherever I look at alternatives, I find little coherence. It is obvious what the default will be from 2027, a retirement income with protection for those living "too long" but no coherence about how this will be done and what people who don't take a choice will get by way of increases.

Click here to join direct from this blog at 10.30 Today Here is Mike Bromwich's agenda for the morning's session.  Pension PlayPen has decided that its meeting at 10.3o am this morning will be our chance to establish what we as a community find acceptable and what unacceptable of the various proposals so far put forward. It was around now that the Chancellor in 2014 decided that Pension Freedom might be a good idea and by the Wednesday in 2014 the die was cast.

Kathryn Fleming is here talking about defined contribution pensions. But has DC with its pots and pathways got a future? The answer of course is “yes” so long as it provides value for o…

Kathryn Fleming is here talking about defined contribution pensions. But has DC with its pots and pathways got a future? The answer of course is "yes" so long as it provides value for our money and this service from consultants should ensure we get VFM. While most attention is upon moving to collective investment strategies and offering longevity protection to those who retire in DC rather than DC, it is good that old fashioned virtues to do with sustainability are discussed here by Hymans Robertson.