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Peers terrified of IHT on pensions when they die.

The questions on the “leasehold cartel” that pensioners need answering

A more realistic view of DC and CDC from LCP

Do you want to choose or be given a pension? A CDC debate on choice

No one should be surprised that there’s a ferocious battle between Reform and LGPS

Why wait for CDC? Bright sparks argue it out this morning !

Dashboards yes! May Richard Smith get his debate , can we get freedom from pots!

Starmer ignores Property Fund “pension bleating” and overrules Rachel Reeves to cap ground rents

John Roe , coffee and fund management – I share his views

Tom McPhail gives good advice to those who want a rich retirement

Revival of pension investment as pension buyout deals slow.

Pensions, politics and football

An amorous podcast with Kim Gubler’s Ronnie and Claire

How much indexation should we have in DC (including CDC)?

Pancho and Lefty – a song for those thinking about Davos.

Let’s socialise at ours and put money by for later! “Friendflation” is a con!

How do old people manage pension self assessment without actuaries and lawyers?

Investment companies should give be giving us better DC pensions

Mental health and MSK; something employers and employees want to WorkWell

Two Keirs; one issue ; 100 years ; free leaseholders

I wish I could visit America again; but I can’t – not at present!

A new TPR? It needs a refresh and these projects to get going!

Should people use their pension savings to buy their home?

Thought leadership on pensions from Mark Carney and John Mitchem

Pensions are important to employers

Raising standards of Trusteeship and Scheme Governance (with TPR)

Greenland – the mythic island that is large and white!

Why CDC schemes need to be large to be fair and offer freedom

Why wait for CDC? We’ll have it out next Tuesday!

Are the American 401(K) participants dreaming what Donald Trump’s dreaming?

The Lords and the Pension Schemes Bill – the game is on for pension surplus!

Common Hold will come about because of Harry, Norma and sound politicians

CDC session packed out – video if you missed it – more next week!

CDC – your questions addressed and maybe answered! 10.30 today (Tuesday 20th)

The Independent Football Regulator is both a challenge and opportunity

Pension’s past is in DB and it’s future in CDC – as debated by the Lords last night.

CAN CDC BE FAIR ENOUGH TO SHARE? 10.30 am tomorrow (Tuesday 20th)

Jack explains plans American retirement plan loans

Three passions; football , independence and governance; thanks LCP!

Is financial services doing well? “we’ll hear it is today

When a horse makes everyone happy- Protektorat at Windsor one Sunday in January!

How employers can help staff in debt!

“Push me – pull you” in our private markets and our public ones!

Reasons to be cheerful : 1-2-3.

Finfluence; a safer way to learn about money?

Isn’t “value for money” too late for DC workplace saving?

Can patients become doctors, can savers become actuaries?

Should we help employees in debt before encouraging saving?

The corridor could be your home – don’t be shy – we’re all in it together!

A wake up and a shake up for advisers and trustees in their “end game”

Leaseholders are not getting protection and it’s not good enough.

Emma – be chair for pension regulation – not just our saving!

Black Rock’s view of the world – streamed this week on the Pension PlayPen

“Too tired to work , too poor to retire” – a message to the Pensions Commission.

Jesal Mistry leaves L&G for Apollo – what’s going on in DC investment?

Us older folk don’t want the world (or even Greenland).

What are our Lords up to with “Pension Schemes” this week?

So what does Mr Clara make of the Stagecoach/Aberdeen deal?

Why do people move or stay put? Hamptons know more than most.

The Missing Voices of pensions!

Anthony Manchester; Global Policy as seen by BlackRock’; 10.30 today

We did as we were told, not as we chose; VFM for workplace pensions.

Why we and the Dutch shouldn’t confuse pensions with pension balances!

The American view of Dutch Pensions – tickled!

My home is no longer my pension – London estate agents tell me!

Why it’s easier for bankers to do private credit – but is it better for the rest of us?

Occupational Pension Schemes (from an Employer’s perspective).

Pensions have a lot on ; no commercial dashboards for a good while please!

Anthony Manchester; Global Policy BlackRock ; Tuesday 10.30

Transparency front and centre- the Government statement on VFM

Torsten Bell speaks in the VFM debate for the consumer.

Simon Eagle reels CDC back from the pond of Nico Aspinall

Value for Money – a new way forward with a Pension Schemes Act?

Twenty four hours hours in a hospital corridor- an accident- not an emergency

Q. “If DB pensions had been invested for growth?” A. “Actuaries would have a DB pension future…”

State Pension needs celebrating and updating – say Karen and Andrew.

With pensions, we want things to be easy – says David Brooks

I understand my state pension but not these statements about my private pension pots.

Dan Mikulskis and Martin Lewis have a simple story, an investment message!

Risk preferences in DC pensions.

Can trustees go against the laws of parliament? Members elect Governments.

The scandal of our “DB capitulation” to “de-risking”.

Why unions should take CDC to employers and their under pensioned members

The legacy of risk aversion haunts superfunds

How important are risk preferences for DC – Muralidhar 10.30 am Tuesday

Where do we stand on melt-up of equity markets?

Is MoneyHelper giving more harm than help?

How do our economists evaluate the value of state investments?

“I want to dominate everything, I want to try to win everything,” – Luke Littler

We are recklessly ignoring the problem our cycling explosion brings.

DB pension schemes stagnant; #BT #USS #Shell #BA fail – says the Times

British innovation within our pension funds? Is this the way?

Should L&G DC Trustees be selling us “pensions made easy”?

I want to know what I’ll fund through tax, what through my pension.

Why you can’t understand old age finance so well without Tony’s help

This man doesn’t like his pensions – I’m not surprised

20 top FT columnists s share “what we wish we’d been taught at school”

The FCA – less messing about – more action

2026 New Years Honours for those thanked by pensioners!

Who needs fireworks when the sun does it for you? #HNY

Do YOU have a fantasy amendment for the Pension Schemes Bill? Send in your thoughts!

We want a millennial not a wibbly-wobbly dashboard , 25 years on!

My card to readers! A robust “25” gives prospect of a prosperous 2026.

The Dutch pension system is about to get even better, (so is ours)

British pension funds back British growth – Ros Altmann

“Should we think about pension arrangements as a Lottery?” Asks Benefit Jack

Trust the value of your investments in private markets?

2026 New Years Honours from King Charles

We should not have to abolish the Lords

The state pension Christmas bonus: A festive joke or a welcome boost?

Therese Coffey – please stay out of the pension debate.

Are lawyers “economic parasites” or “rentiers”

Is Freedom needed for an epic retirement?

Richard Smith deserves a new year’s honour (this year or next) ! #pension #dashboard

If $120 bn of AI data centre debt is in SPVs, am I or my pension funding it?

The delights of OId Harry’s lone Sea Eagle.

Artificial or actual, will lawyers increase our GDP?

Will Harry’s Jukebox beat Willie and the Irish to the Gold Cup?

The super-lawyer is now in London.

Might we win? We might win! We just beat Australia in two days.

An Australian vision for our pensions – perfect for a Boxing Day!

We need to save for our futures before we end up like the French – Tom McPhail

The boxing day match is not a one day test (nor for the Ashes!)

How’s your Christmas going?

Dorset men.

Happy Christmas without TV?

Amazon is everywhere! (sing) “Christmas Eve” is ancient history

The peril of private market investments to purchasers of retail funds

Is the industry ready for a clearer, more accessible, pensions dashboard?

With a CDC pension – you’re no target for support

Our Stock Exchange has become a bargain takeover market for want of pension money.

Britain’s problem is not just economics. It’s belief ; Pensions UK March 10-12

Superfund or UMES CDC fund not small DB funds.

Can we pipe down and let Royal Mail workers get on with building and getting their pension?

“Take the small DB scheme seriously?” We don’t and we won’t- at this rate.

JAB owns Pret , Krispy Kremes and a Nazi past.; – now Utmost and Equitable’s retirement business.

Steve Webb is in the potting shed- helping people get their pots together.

Can Indian dairies show bosses how to make good business of pensions?

Leaseholders left behind at Christmas say the Times

The shortest day of the year always evokes strange love for women!

Are we protected from from a fall in the “Magnificent 7”?

Stagecoach’s Pension’s heritage simplified – in less than 2 minutes

The “musts”, “should” and “need to” ; TPR’s CDC regs.

Why are there still 4,838 DB schemes and what will happen in 2026?

BP must “return to its Code of Conduct” – and how it spends its member’s pension surplus.

The root of welfare in Britain is wealth; People’s Pension’s a partnership between us!

Why are investment trusts excluded from the Pension Schemes Bill?

Sadly – many nurses can’t afford their “gold-plated” pensions.

“Preparing for an ageing Society” – the Lords speak out.

Steve Simkins: LGPS prudence will cost councils dear

AE’s not a tax, we need to win hearts not raid wallets.

Rising youth inactivity – a million kids doing nothing? – A young IFA does something.

Blockchain to administrate- yes; crypto to pay my pension – “?”

What’s going on with Booby and Richard and “Bec from downstairs”?

Council tax increases – YES in my back yards!

Thanks to DWP a multi-employer CDC plan was made final this week.

Innovators ; so much for yesterday – what of tomorrow?

“Yet to buyers” and “propertied pensioners”; we should have the spaces we need

Strata creates Australian property micro-states and teaches the UK lessons!

I wouldn’t give my pension to Americans who don’t care about the climate

SASA – (Stagecoach Aberdeen Scheme Adoption) – the video and deck

How our pensions are thought of and debated by those who represent us

What next for what was Scottish Equitable? Will Aegon UK end up more than legacy?

Trustee pension consultations fill up the Christmas stocking.

Andrew Smith’s tough questions for John Hamilton of Stagecoach

John Hamilton’s Stagecoach deal – 10 months on from Melton Mowbray!

“No turning back from consistency on pension dashboards” – says Richard Smith

Workplace pension funds – no longer beginners at investment – let them past a charge cap.

The chances are you’re reading this – on linkedIn – gender biased (stats would say!)

Why the health of my staff matters to me now and tomorrow!

The Token will open up private markets for pensions benefiting pensioners

Playing a tiny violin badly for First Actuarial?

Migraine Aphasia: My Speech Gets Jumbled and my Blogging Goes Crazy!

Women are changing business in London and wider!

Can FCA promote growth in the UK or do we need Martin Lewis?

Employers should co-operate for CDC pensions to work best.

David Pitt-Watson – Lord of CDC

David Pitt-Watson – Lord of CDC

The Times thunders for pension increases – urging TPR to praise some and call out others!

FCA and TRAC support tokenisation to boost efficiency in asset management

Don’t mix up the St Pauls with Fleet Street please!

Torsten – have a word with Nausicaa about how your pension is invested!

Aegon to become “TransAmerica” and dispose of Aegon UK

Why has WTW bought Cushon? Why did people buy Cushon?

John Hamilton to explain what drives him and the Stagecoach Pension scheme

“The private credit market is going to be pushed to extremes” – sound familiar?

Is AI a problem for compliance or an aid?

A CDC Superfund? David Fair’s “end-game” is confusing.

The pension industry will leave it till 2029 , hoping CDC fails

Does Lord Gove think leaseholders will be freed? Harry finds out.

A man and a woman making sense of investment for retirement

Back to the future; the return of the surplus – and Richard Jones (video & slides)

Richard Jones at Pension PlayPen today? Yes please!

The embarrassing lottery of the default “pension” pathway.

“No growth No pensions”. John Hamilton; COT of Stagecoach Pensions

TPR probes barriers to investment – a hat-trick of wins in a week.

Pension Bee’s campaigned for “pot transfers” since the days of Robin Hood

What journey’s best in the pension end-game?

A run through of pensions in the UK; for those who are confused!

Good enough for a financier – good enough for a bus driver?

Ros Altmann in 2020 on the Pension Action Group’s progress to that date

Great Britain – How We Get Our Future Back.

Britain needs LGPS’ Pools of excellence to turn pots to pensions!

More self-congratulations from rich lawyers – this time earned.

Has Aberdeen got itself a superfund? Not quite but the door is open!

The Labour Govt. does not have to betray leaseholders like this

Hartlepool v Yeovil ; why it’s good to be a Glover!

Pension Schemes Bill is OK and moves to House of Lords

Purple book and PPF letter sheds light on Pre-97 increases (to actuary Colin Haines)

Workplace savings – not about saving tax but buying pensions

How many ways to promote Richard Johnson at Pension PlayPen next Tuesday?

The idea that members will get pension pay increased from Stagecoach’s surplus “interesting”.

Back to the future! The return of DB Surpluses with Richard Jones

You will know the Stagecoach pension deal is a ‘landmark’ from the backlash

Today Fiduciary Duty’s whatever you want ; trustees need direction.

Don’t leave frozen pensioners out in the very cold – cold

Trustees change sponsor from Stagecoach to Aberdeen rewarding 22,000 members

A new contract with Government for the next generation of pensioners

John Mather speaks on Britain as he ekes out his later life

Better pensions: Economic Growth: Sound the Bell

The “pensions industry” unites in stating the bleedin’ obvious.

Smithfield and Billingsgate markets to move to Royal Docks

SPP on the CDC pension we should get when buying in at retirement

Will HSBC pensioners get unjust deserts?

Lies, Damned Lies and the Telegraph – Gareth Morgan.

A very rigorous coffee morning

First Actuarial to be bought by Gallagher

An AI bubble popping? The FT expect one, I want a pension not a pot!

Having a Greta Garbo moment next Tuesday at 10.30am.

The WARP of working and receiving pension – bigger than all of us!

“That, my friend, is complete bollocks” – the great life of Chris Sier.

This will be a budget that rewards wealth management.

Stop the politics, we have pension testing in 2026, delivery in 27.

Slicing and dicing the BBC’s reputation – Simon’s irregular thoughts.

UK’s tech sector could be the best in Europe, but this timid budget won’t help

Rethinking How We Fund Later-Life Care: Time for a UK “CareSaver”? – Alexandra Miles

Calandagan – the best horse in the world – wins the Japan cup this morning!

Lord Snooty and Co push the freedom of leaseholders back years.

Generations of Brits troubled by tax cliff edges?

Time for Government to think bigger on Defined Benefit pension surpluses?

Media 1- parliament 0 ; democracy’s penalty o.g . in the last minute

The mill wheel that grinds the flour that makes the bread

We shouldn’t have deficits , we shouldn’t have surpluses – we won’t with CDC!

The Greta Garbo Budget – a PP discussion next Tuesday

Backbone of Britain: UK SMEs forgotten in the Autumn Budget- say accountants

In its ” Hyperscale Build Race” – can AI benefit from clean energy?

Penson Surpluses can now be “tapped” for staff’s best interests

No need to moan, pensions should kick start growth in Britain, not Govt. borrowing.

Coal Staff – why aren’t we shouting from the rooftops this great news?

Salary Sacrifice Scrapped? Good for our OBR headroom – inconsequential to pensions.

Great news for those in PPF and FAS with no pension wage increase since 1997. What next?

A look at this lunchtime’s Budget through the pension lens

A budget horror story for those exploiting freehold?

Aoifinn with George Graham; on running Lancashire and Yorkshire’s pensions.

Schroders talk of the importance of transparent stock markets in the UK.

What Gordon Aiken’s telling the insurers who bulk sell annuities

A budget that can only beat dismal expectations.

LIST;- the 2025 Life insurer stress test (warning insurers named!) Thx Andy Smith

“Married woman’s pension” and the upgrade to the state pension since 2016.

What are “pre-retirement” pension strategies targeting these days?

Budget – have your say on what YOU want; 10.30am today

DC pension won’t it used to be – but some values are for ever – thanks Hymans.

Let data centres jump the queue for power.

Richard and Bec launch the five secrets of the happiest pensioners

“Why are there now 2 levels of state pension, old and new? How is that fair?”

Don’t mess with my brain – leave the state pension alone!

Wouldn’t requiring cyclists to wear helmets help?

Meat and drink of a pension event – a compliant audience.

Who loses from R&T’s plan to “tax” pension saving (and how much)?

How you can support pensioners being cheated out of their pension increases

The photos Chatham House doesn’t quite cover!

Do Pension Schemes need to do more on Complicity?

Mrs Reeves and Pensions ; the full unexpurgated version

What is acceptable – what unacceptable – in pension taxation?

Increase your staff pension payments by 50%? No thanks. Increase pensions by 60%? Yes please!

A smorgasbord of a budget? Could be a bit messy!

Mrs Reeves and Pensions

Terry Pullinger on the future – for people needing pensions.

Up to Scotland, capture the wold cup joy and bring it home to London!

Thanks LCP – you’re finding that for four in five of us – pensions mean pensions.

How can people get advice about pension defaults like CDC?

It shouldn’t surprise us – the FCA trustees are no different – they don’t listen to the FCA or Treasury.

Learning about Dutch CDC from one of their senior pension spokespeople

Scotland beat off Vikings- I’m on an early morning trip to Inverness and Kyle Lochalsh!

The AI Boom Is a House of Cards ; Niall Ferguson:

The PPF is waggling its tail at what it can do with a spare £14.1bn

Not that much “reassurance” about shifting my pension to an insurer.

How the New Dutch Pension System Really Works (Russ Oxley)

Unlike a wage for life , a pension pot’s “Number” rarely turns up!

“Can the dashboard ween us off our addiction to pot?” – asks Smith

Are the Dutch moving to CDC as we know it? A Dutchman comes to our table.

Public Spending will fall when productivity improves..

Road to the budget: it’s time for the Treasury to take back control

Labour won big at the High Court. Why are they hiding it?

Can we invest with Iceland + to protect and help develop us?

A good old rant over the piss up in The Brewery.

Just how good are these offers to insure your DB pension?

People don’t panic about their pension but their wealth!

What the Dutch can teach us (Hymans from last year)!

A year of recovery with more to come

The Dutch Pension Reform WTP – Rogier Swierstra

What have the Dutch ever done for us…? CDC with Rogier

The damage that QE did to a saver who did what the Trustees and Insurer told her to

Congratulations to everyone who has won anything this week

London Calling! After all this, won’t you give me a smile?

Why WASPI women have been treated with ill-communicated decency…

Greenland has joined our worldwide readerhood!

The NHS has made me very happy!

A proper analysis of the disaster of QE on our pensions. – Pensions Oldie

I’m 2 years a pensioner in France, 3 years off in UK – guaranteed 5- 20 years under LCP

A dozen or a baker’s dozen for arguments for and against WASPI (pt. 94)

Harry Scoffin on the sorry fate of leaseholders and what commonplace could do to help! (video)

Claer Bartlett lets rip over another threat to pensions

Dylan Klebold’s Crush – a poem and a video by Tim Miller

QE destroyed pensions , QT our capacity to afford them – thanks Bailey/BOE

When I’m 64… I’m playing healthcare bingo!

Has “fiduciary” been captured by the “pension woke”?

The “S” in pension ESG is “commonplace” today with Harry Scoffin

Utmost is owned by US private equity operating a slow boat to Bermuda.

“Evergreen” Private Equity is not what it sounds – say ILPA to FT

Lloyds; now one of Britain’s top 5 landlords, should come @10.30 Tuesday to hear Harry Scoffin

All together now! Why the Americans need to learn the British way of pensions.

Into my 65th year a very lucky boy! May we deliver pensions for my generation and the next

250 British bosses ask that the pension drawbridge be dropped and capital released

£2bn pension tax-but? Broad shoulders shudder!

Retail collective pensions? I fear an opt-out in retirement for CDC.

Ground Rents don’t seem to be doing much good for pensions either.

“Analysis of the real risks and values of life expectancy is needed” – William McGrath

M&G and Rothesay set pensions against leaseholders; enough of this.

Priorities for delivery of pension pain? – The latest HMT fishing.

2026 a testing year, 2027 a year of delivery – for pensions.

A pension is deferred pay not a defined pension – get it – Paul Waters does!

Harry’s live on pension support of leaseholder abuse.

Collective DRAWDOWN? Another drain on delivery – enough!

Insurers competing for pensions using leverage to boost annuities? Surely not.

“Commonhold for the many not just the new”- sign to support

“Our inheritance obsession is keeping older people poor” -Tom McPhail

Dr Chris Sier; 1966 to 2025

Levelling the Pension Credit field.

What am I worth? The FT can tell you in a number of ways…

How can we be ignorant but confident our pension will work out for us?

Rob tomorrow to pay for today? Reform UK’s pension “waffle-bomb”.

How do trustee’s feel about DB surpluses- from their mouth or according to an insurer?

Opportunities for our pension funds ; quantum software on the doorstep.

“The payment of tax is voluntary” – a useful thought from Laurence.

Thoughts for Peterborough – Mark Ormston’s “pension town”.

Financing the next wave of New Towns; investment not Government borrowing

Making Money for Torsten

FT pension journalist Mary McDougall takes on “Asset Management”

Debate pension surpluses – tomorrow 10.30 am

The hope people have of getting better paid when they stop working.

“GPPs aren’t competitive” – but are CDC’s good business?

Americans humiliated on the racetrack, a few weeks after the Ryder Cup

!066 and all that!

How offshore insurers manage British pensioner money

Rachel and Torsten plan raid on pension national insurance perks

Corporate Advice for GPPs and the employers and savers that use them

Public Policy Adjustments to Increase UK Investment from Defined Benefit Schemes

No VFM from CDC? – an outburst from an actuary.

Big differences in Pension Credit take-up revealed

Extracting DB surplus with Christos Christou

Struggling to compute the risk of being paid a pension by Microsoft?

A roadmap for a CDC pension by 2027?

At last a plan for all pension schemes to pay pensions.

Pension Credit – new figures reveal large regional gaps

Have Standards Phoenix and watch how you go with Americans !

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

Don’t make trophies of your CDC trustees – TPT!

Five reasons for opening this blog, CDC,CDC,CDC,CDC,video!

CDC: “How do you make it fair?” not through liability driven investment!

We don’t need austerity, we need to invest and grow

A principles-based approach to CDC – a blog from Shalin Bhagwan

Workplace pensions – a bright star in a dark sky for Corporate Britain

What should employers make of CDC? Your views welcome!

Patrick Bloomfield did not die for nothing- Smith and Miles – a tribute.

Ford – the “not so” British pension risk transfer.

Why Bell and Reeves are too right to risk us being wrong .

Jeremy Hunt would undo public pensions his Govt guaranteed till 2036

Blackmore Bond Holders will get FSCS claims paid – Carlier.

Conservative economics cut pensions – Jeremy and Tom on one page!

Why are banks so rubbish at workplace pensions?

Will “Single Purpose Pensions Authorities” suit Surrey and the LGPS?

A great British Fintech is no fit for NatWest.

We have a Government that respects pensions – let’s be thankful.

Millions need us to deliver on CDC by 2027 ; here’s why- here’s how!

Pension heroes or Pension zeroes – pre-97 and under payment of indexation.

CDC today and tomorrow – PlayPen coffee morning 10.30 Tues.

McPhail lays into Bell over mandation

CDC’s got a hard centre. Tough talking from DWP (4 TPR)

Why keeping at retirement transfers separate from whole of life CDC makes sense

Tax Free Cash Payments a test of provider’s VFM? Help the FT find out.

CDC expansion – we’ve heard it all before – is this time for real?

How do we account for things we can’t smell see or feel?

Bell knows CDC could be a pension tsunami; he is taking risks-good for him.

No more balanced diagrams please – we want 60% better pensions!

Pensions misspelled – Robin Ellison puts it right for the incoming TPR Chair

Jo Cumbo’s last word on political interference in investment of our money.

CDC – we “stand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start”.

Andrew Watson speaks this morning of the “Taxonomy of Intangibles” – 10.30am (details here)

LGPS – £147bn is an ECONOMIC MIRACLE – what should be done?

A big question of Commonwealth, emerges in our pension investment

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

Dashboard – don’t keep me waiting!

“The first major accounting update in at least 500 years” – Andrew Watson

Pensions transfers need to cost under £10 for the “small pot carousel”

Work Pensions do deals NOW in UK private markets (not just offer LTAFs).

Tom McPhail and Robin Ellison ; time for a regulatory rethink? We think so.

ABI’s insurers invested only 0.24% of workplace pensions in Compact assets last year

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

Tom McPhail questions the value for money of our pension regulation

The commercial advantage for employers of switching to CDC

Pension UK – Should Theroux in his playground market your Conference?

Couldn’t pre-97 pension indexation be met by a windfall-tax on insurers?

Value for Money – simple ; “money saved v pensions paid”!

Rachel’s new world of fiscal prudence doesn’t work for pensions!

“Concierge Service” for overseas investors with money for the UK

Taxonomy of Intangibles – by Rethinking Capital

The pre-97 pensioners who lost their pension – had NO voice at Conference.

The end of Blunkett’s era – the Bell has rung (after an overlong interval).

Consolidation-it’s advantages and limits from Borders

A fillip for pensions – mimicking Canada; Reeves pushes for UK investment

Torsten v Webb – Hutton v Cumbo , regulators . legislators and 1600 delegates

Stamina sapping – vocation enhancing – triple day wonder in Mancy!

“Investing for an adequate retirement” – (what happens when you involve the audience)

Pensions UK Conference – met Pension Commission; an unlikely success

What a Convention can miss but Richard Smith can deliver!

Pension Dashboard – Richard Smith – 10.30 today – free ticket inside

Pension UK’s Conference – and a strategy for five years

Steve Webb on contracting out of SERPS – John Greenwood look away

Andrew Warwick-Thompson at rest

Andrew Warwick-Thompson remembered today

The UK banks, the PRA , our insurers and pensions! Something for Manchester?

Ian Mcknight meets Aoifinn Devitt and sounds green in the gloom

From minnow to monster- will workplace GPPs become CDC?

We’re not spending, we’re hoarding – that’s not investing- it’s neurotic!

“Pensions UK” has reclaimed “pensions”. Will delegates be “2030 ready” by Thursday?

How can housing wealth bridge the later life funding gap

What are IOW’s pension caulkeads up to?

We stop spending and save save save! Let’s make that work.

Why should we build a “disposable” pension system?

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

Confusion over “pre-97 pension increases ” and workplace pensions to come.

“Fear of risk has has ruined the prospect of a real pension” – Pullinger

Does CDC work like a DB or a DC pension plan? I don’t care!

“Data will be a Game Changer”; Richard Smith

Can India pay pension payments “cradle to grave?”. Can UK help and learn?

Right, you ‘orrible lot…

The consumer voice insists on being heard.

Just How Serious Are the Growing Pains in the UK’s Bond Market?

The Pension Trust could run a Pension Superfund

Is there no opposition to the Bill at this “crossroads in pension policy?”

Empathy not sympathy with wanting “cash now pension later”!

“Dashboards will be a Game Changer”; Richard Smith – Tuesday

Clean floors – aim accurately and don’t drink more till you do.

Dalriada and Smart – do you know why people still invest rubbish AVCs?

Pensions at a policy crossroads?

We don’t get bigger than the £212tn Energy Transition opportunity.

Where does life expectancy go from here? Stuart McDonald and friends!

Matt Setchell, Octopus Energy-“energy transition” today at 10.30 (link inc)

What does Standard Life’s “affordable pensions advice” say about freedom?

Sweden – a better model for British financial services and our private pensions?

Dan Mikulskis – what he’s doing at People’s..

Matt Setchell, Co-Head of Octopus Energy- talks about transition

Young and old – support each other – treat tax speculation as gossip!

For Somerset and Dorset , the “slow and dirty” pension fund way – is LPPI

One billion oysters? Where do I sign?

PPE Medpro made £200m but never filed full accounts. The law should change.

Back to work tomorrow Damian? Millions like you to talk to!

An ageing workforce finds our pensions fail us – we need to stay bread-winning

Social porn from finance media? – Nangle Trumps Robinhood and Selfies

Social porn?

SeLFIES (on phones) for the self-employed

I’m a pensions expert and I’m taking my tax-free cash now – Tom McPhail

Two great videos that make me glad to have a Nest pension

How investors can access the £212tr energy transition opportunity

IFAs know that Retirement Matters – finding out with Owen James

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

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