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Con Keating questions the value of “limited liability”.
It’s been a while since this blog has featured Con’s incisive thinking. This article calls into question the capacity of shareholders to have their returns and have someone eat the risk. There’s a lot...
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What does SJP “sacking” Woodford mean?
“HL removed Woodford from its Wealth 50 but did not force sell the funds as SJP has.” But this shows a fundamental misunderstanding of how SJP (costly restricted funds) and HL (costly self-select...
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The right (and wrong) types of pension scheme consolidation
Our vision for the future of occupational pensions is one where all savers are in schemes that have excellent standards of governance that deliver good value. Over time we think this will mean having...
View ArticleWho will patrol the investment pathways?
Investment pathways are the big idea to help those getting to 55 and with pension freedom in sight. From August, people will be presented with four paths for their money. One takes them to a point...
View ArticleHow ESG should protect our national game
“Football should be built on community, not built on mutiny”. Nasser al-Khelaifi – President of Paris St Germain Protecting football from mutiny Fifteen years ago I spoke at an NAPF conference in...
View ArticleLittle did we know… the Law Deb debate – a year late!
On April 16th 2020, a few days into the first lockdown, Mark Ashworth announced the postponement of the 2020 event . The mail is a curiosity , a cameo of how phrases like “seeing you”, “in person”...
View ArticleDC savers left in “backwaters fouled with complexity”– clean up hybrids now!
In my recent blog ” We can;t risk hybrid DC schemes being left behind. I argued that many member’s benefits are being left in a backwater fouled by complexity. The DWP have chosen to treat small DC...
View Article“Oh Rose thou art sick”
I don’t know Alison Rose , I know one of her former (female) Board colleagues I suspect that Rose’s resignation last night as NatWest’s CEO will be met with frustration It is one thing to get...
View ArticleAlan Bates and the General Code of Practice.
Last week, the Pensions Regulator finally coughed up its 171 page General Code. You can download your copy here It tells us to “do good not bad” and it arrived as the nation stood in horror at what...
View ArticleThere’s no G in Fujitsu
It was not out of the goodness of his heart that Fujitsu’s European CEO Paul Patterson offered to pay compensation to those impacted by the Horizon scandal, it was out of fear, The greatest fear for...
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