[insert name here] is “a professional services firm grappling with the use of cutting-edge technology to speed up laborious research and cut down on staffing while also trying to maintain quality standards”
Lots of (council) election leaflets telling me who to vote for in order to NOT GET someone else.
Maybe we all just vote for the party we want MOST (or dislike LEAST) as a test ahead of any general election… rather than trying to outguess the rest of the electorate!!
Making pensions…
“safer for members, trustees and employers now and in the future. From our work on other superfund deals, we know a practical, cooperative approach helps make these transactions successful.”
Respect.
There’s a white line on a road near our house which we always call “Mum’s line” when we drive there noting everyone actually knows where the road edge is now!
One for the actuaries…
🐻
We ❤️ pensions…
Juxtaposed at the bookshop…
RFK…
OMG…
"the bill still gives... government the power to direct the investment of people’s pension savings, and that, as a matter of principle, is wrong"
I am minded to agree.
@daviesofbrixton.bsky.social and @prospectpension.bsky.social - remind me of your views?
www.pensions-expert.com/law-and-regu...
Beware MORAL HAZARD.
“Another chap bought insurance then shot off his own foot just 12 hours later ‘while aiming at a squirrel’…”
Useful pensions insights and views as always from Henry.
This amused me:
“with 75% of schemes in surplus… and consultants finally seeing the advantages to them… of keeping DB plans running on”
Are we turkeys finally voting AGAINST Christmas then?!
Or is that too mean?
😂 🎄 🦃
Mandation by any other name is still mandation…
Not very…
Public sector pensions “nonsense on a stick”!
The stark pensions maths in Higher Education shows that “the spiralling cost of employer contributions to the Teachers’ Pension Scheme (TPS), now 28.68%, is nearly double the cost of the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS)”
It would be naïve to expect post ‘92 universities NOT to take action.
“Then came the accountants, actuaries, bankers, and regulators… who turned ‘prudence’ into paperwork”
😳
Excellent news from the death guru - especially the bit about middle aged blokes! 💀
LOW mortality rates 2026 YTD 🥳
“Trump's astounding, inflammatory declaration – just two days after a similar obscenity-laced Truth Social demand – is unlike anything a modern US president has ever levelled or hinted at”
Astounding indeed.
And very very sad.
🤔
“The scale of the reduction in the number of member-nominated [pension scheme] trustees is shocking… an unsurprising consequence of… greater consolidation and the professionalisation of trusteeship. This weakens accountability and the quality of member engagement”
“Extra pissy and power-trippy” is absolutely tip-top as a descriptor here. 😊
Hands up if you have principles.
👏
“I've heard all kinds of Numbers, but they share two traits: they are way more than will ever be spent in retirement, and… demand another five years of full-time work”
Satisfaction is as much a function of expectation as of realisation.
Set your target LOW, folks, for a happy and early retirement!
So in some years King Oswy celebrated Easter on a different day (week… month…!) from his second wife, Eanfled.
The King got a bunch of senior theologians together at the “Synod of Whitby” (664AD) to decide that his wife was right!
Wisdom.
(Did I get that right, @susanabernethy2.bsky.social?)
