Opinion

I had the good fortune to be talking to my friend Con Keating, of BrightonRock fame, this week.

Some of you may well have attended the NAPF conference in Manchester last week.

In his opening speech at the National Association of Pension Funds annual conference in Manchester, chairman Chris Hitchen told politicians they should stop blaming pension funds for the crisis.

So, who saw last Monday night's Dispatches on Channel 4 then? The programme asked the question "who stole our pensions?" without really ever coming up with an answer.

Professional Pensions Conjecture

The Pension Protection Fund proposal to reduce the cap on its risk- based levy to 0.5% of liabilities has had a mixed reception.

This has been my last week editing Prof Pens. I have been promoted to run another of Incisive Media's magazines, Investment Week, where I will be let loose on the wonderful world of retail investments and discretionary managers.

Just prior to writing this, I chaired a panel debate for the UKs Pensions Management Institute in London on the various types of risk sharing arrangements which could be implemented in the UK. The background to the debate was that as it stands all the...

Pensions minister Angela Eagle believes the industry criticises personal accounts too much.

It's a good job that John Sergeant was only presenting last week's Scheme of the Year Awards and not judging them. He would have been slightly conflicted as he was a member of two of the winning schemes (no prizes for guessing which ones) and his wife...