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Following any email of 9th July HMRC has written to provide an update on the delivery of the Low Earner’s Pension Payment (LEPP). It arrived early in August Yet another delay in the tax-man paying back pension payments They Continue reading
My DC pot was established with L G by First Actuarial, my employer at the time of auto-enrolment. We were going to use Prudential but that large insurer which is now offering pensions through M G had recently withdrawn from writing Continue reading
Yesterday I published an article by Gordon Aitken that stood up for SJP after it had taken a stock-marketing beating for losing customers. My argument has consistently been that SJP serves a place in society, they are an expense that Continue reading
Sensible but technical stuff for the smart and those who have smart advisers! Queries on Lump Sum Payments Dave King Pensions Technical Consultant, Aries Insight April 21, 2026 Across the last couple of weeks, Aries have been asked several questions Continue reading
Yesterday I published Brian Henderson s brilliant thoughts on Value for Money as a way of helping individuals determine for themselves what is their best way forward at retirement. He converts the current VFM assessments to a tool known as Retirement Continue reading
You can download the document for yourself from here. Here is Brian s introduction on social media
You can read the SPP paper here The UK must stop treating pensions and housing as separate policy issues to address the growing retirement adequacy challenge, the Society of Pension Professionals (SPP) has argued. They re bang on In a Continue reading
This was a week when Aon brought employers all things to all private sector employers All private companies run workplace pension schemes so Aon run a product for every pension saver. The net accessible market for Aon is every employer Continue reading
There is a story that Andy Smith is brace tell. He is an independent consultant and though he has skin in the game, his honesty is commendable. The de-risking of DB pensions through the buy-in/out of insurers is slowing. I Continue reading
It is governance, scale and expertise – not mandation – that will deliver good private market returns. And schemes must beware zombie continuation vehicles, says Professor Iain Clacher. John Greenwood hears why in one of the articles of the year Continue reading