In the last couple of posts I explained how the Labour government responded to the decline in the number of active members of private…
The last post discussed how the Pension Commission was established by the Labour government in 2002 to review the level of occupational pension provision,…
In my last three blog posts I explained how the gold-standard of defined benefit pensions had turned from a useful recruiting tool into an…
The pension minister’s announcement that restrictions on the National Employment Savings Trust will be abolished in 2017 is a significant step towards the end…
I’ll admit it: I have strong opinions about pensions and investment. I find it particularly vexing when anyone uses the word ‘saving’ while talking…
In the somewhat dry and technical world of pensions it is a good week when life is enlivened by two parties expressing equally strong yet…
Last week KPMG issued a report on the asset management industry declaring the number of global players would halve by 2030. Forecasting the size…
t’s inevitable coalition government policy will be a Frankenstein monster – ideas from different parties are stitched together to form a whole. And then…
A collective defined contribution scheme, which pools together assets from multiple companies, has much to recommend it. It’s no longer effective for many companies to…