(1) Sesquipedalianisms prize The Pension Protection Fund (Moratorium and Arrangements and Reconstructions for Companies in Financial Difficulty) (Amendment and Revocation) Regulations 2020, SI 2020/990 are now thankfully in force. The Regulations…
Urgent news (1) Cold calling by phone The ICO has fined a cold-calling pensions operation around £130,000 (ICO fines company £130,000 for unauthorised pensions cold calls, ICO Press release, 10 September 2020).…
Urgent news (1) Recovering the money: TPR has announced that it is seeking to recover around £300,000 from Patrick McLarry who got five years jail for abstracting £250,000 from the…
Urgent news (1) Is ESG more nuanced that we thought? The DWP has just issued its consultation on its ESG rules for pension funds (See Britain’s pension schemes lead on climate risk:…
Urgent issues (1) Nominative determinism (again) is in overdrive during the lockdown. It seems too obvious to name Charles Counsell, the urbane CEO of TPR, but the parents of the newly appointed…
Urgent points first (1) Nominative determinism is back. Money Marketing on 2 July 2020 published an important article entitled ‘The Morning Briefing: Pension tax pain and networks’. It was written…
URGENT AND IMPORTANT WIKIleaks has just made available this leaked draft memorandum from TPR which is intended to be published at the end of March. Full text is as below.…
Shaugna Phillips, a contestant on Love Island, unsurprisingly has 17000 admirers on Instagram, mostly reflecting on her skills in her day job as manager of the minutes for the Lambeth…
Schadenfreude has a bad name; it is not usually gracious to delight in another's misfortune. But a broadcast on BBC Radio 4 (Something understood, 26 January 2020) on the topic suggests…
You can rarely beat the house when betting, and there may not be many takers, but if there was ever a sure thing (and very low odds) it is that…