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Always a Pensions Angle — 148 episodes
LAPF Investments Magazine Review Special
LGPS Interviews Special: Max Townshend
Endgame Drift and Investment Dilemmas
What the Commission Heard
LGPS Interviews Special: Mark Smith
LGPS Interviews Special: Jennifer Devine
Gold Stars and Grey Areas: The New LGPS Guidance
SpaceX, Surpluses and the Senior LGPS Officer
AAPA presents... The World Cup of Pensions (Part 1)
Spinning the Wheel of Pensions: LGPS, Dashboards and Retirement Living Standards
The Report, the Gap and the Robot in the Room
LGPS Interviews Special: Louise Jack
Live from the Pooling Symposium – A Pension Schemes Bill (Act!!) Special
Ping pong, poetry, and partial u-turns
Sunny in Fife, cloudy on salary sacrifice
LGPS Interviews Special: Nick Dixon
Pension Schemes Bill Special with shadow pensions minister Helen Whately MP
LGPS Interviews Special: Richard Tomlinson
Always a Pensions Angle: Live from Edinburgh!
It's Still Not Your Money
LGPS Interviews Special: Clair Alcock
LGPS Interviews Special: Peter Wallach
Whose Job Is It Anyway? Pension regulation, market oversight, and the forgotten workforce
LGPS Interviews Special: Trevor Castledine
Pool Power, Pension Gaps, and Political Promises
Probing Amendments and Panglossian Optimism
New Year, Same Bill
The 2025 Review: Bells, Bills and Brunel
Budget Leaks and Legislative Tweaks: Your Guide to a Chaotic Couple of Weeks
Rumours, Reversals… and a Really Big Budget
Introducing: Always a Pensions Angle
Should pension schemes invest in biodiversity?
2023 – Navigating Uncertainty
The Africa COP
Sadiq Khan on sustainable cities, finance – and COP
Was the Bank of England right to intervene during the LDI crisis?
Sustainable Views: How to speak ‘ESG’
What challenges do different asset classes pose for ESG investment?
Exploring Fixed Income Opportunities In Uncertain and Volatile Times
Trailer: Sustainable Views, the podcast
LDI, PLSA and PIPAs: looking back with Andy Cheseldine
How to transform an investment team
TPR should not regulate LDI despite pensions crisis
Webb: Opperman achieved but ‘got sidetracked easily’
Pension tax changes needed to save NHS from ‘rock bottom’
Trustees struggling to guide members on inflation benefits
Schemes struggle to educate members amid cost of living crisis
Ball in TPR’s court as DB funding code consultation launches
Providers delaying transfers are failing their customers
Schemes will have a tough job weighing up discretionary increases
LGPS faces affordability, engagement and policy challenges
Partial AE reform should be prioritised before long-term fix
Uncertainty around inflation leads to ‘casino pensions’
‘Pot follows member’ legislation needed to solve small pots problem
Natural capital can improve scheme returns but concerns remain
Spring Statement: Missed opportunity to support savers
Is this really the right time for auto-enrolment expansion?
How schemes can invest in wind and solar energies
Universal charges could harm master trust competition
Government must set a timeline for auto-enrolment expansion
Top tips for success at the PIPAs
DC focus must ‘fundamentally shift’ from costs to value in 2022
Schemes need to constantly engage with managers to achieve net zero
Solving the UK’s ‘underpensioned’ problem
Fiduciary trumps politics if divesting from ‘illegal Israeli settlements’
McCloud costs dispute could damage members’ morale
Inflation and Covid uncertainty temper PPF performance
Schemes’ trustees cannot ignore social factors risks
Mandating net zero could ‘cut straight through’ fiduciary duties
Understanding green and sustainable bonds
No way to avoid the indexation ‘rules lottery’ as inflation bites
Trustees need to address sponsor covenant climate risk
Industry ‘irritation’ with TPR’s code of practice could have been avoided
Covid-19 could have killed the PLSA
Market capacity may be barrier to DC scheme consolidation
TCFD helps schemes to understand financial risks
Too much jargon hampers sustainable investing drive
Tapping DC for Long-Term Assets Fund requires ‘rigorous’ scrutiny
Treasury ‘ignored advice’ in public sector pension reforms
Trustees should focus more on scheme admin in anti-scam fight
Police officers let down by poor McCloud communication
Pension schemes’ under-allocation to China is ‘anachronistic’
Illiquids not necessarily the answer for DC
Treasury admin fund could help tackle McCloud
Fairs: TPR’s criminal powers policy will evolve with experience
Uber decision poses challenges for master trust sector
Budget 2021: ‘Reckless conservatism’ in DB landscape
Timms calls for pension transfer rules change
Tackling climate change will require a ‘step change’ in governance
New powers in Pension Schemes Act could cause bankruptcies
Economic uncertainty and DC consolidation to mark 2021
Trustees advised to self-certify before Christmas
Industry needs to work together to sort out GMPs
Regulatory uncertainty puts workforce reform at risk
Three-step plan to fix NHS scheme
PPF eyes DB sponsors' deteriorating credit ratings
Arguments for DC consolidation stronger than for DB
DB schemes could be 'doomed to failure'
TPR to make changes to DB funding ‘fast-track’
Schemes cannot eliminate chance of cyber breach
Pension bill could have ‘unintended consequences’
PPF could face court case on benefits
Tough ESG investment choices for trustees
The end of ‘amateurish’ trusteeship
McClymont: Too many master trusts in UK
Vigilance urged over relaxed rules
Is 3-month DB holiday enough?
Webb: Budget must deliver for doctors
Regulator should take ‘softly-softly’ approach to DC consolidation
Govt and regulators urged to review chair statements
Vegan case flags importance of heeding members
What falling sterling means for pension funds
Tackling the 'long tail' of underperforming smaller schemes
The future of trusteeship
What the firefighters' and judges' case means for pensions policy
Putting a stop to unsuitable defined benefit transfer advice
How will investment pathways help consumers?
Are you doing enough to engage scheme members?
Is LGPS governance up to scratch?
How to select the right master trust
Improving the quality of professional trustees
How to approach the bulk annuity market
ESG: Trustee investment duties explained
A closer look at DB consolidation
Next steps for the pensions dashboard project
What can we learn from the Barnardo's outcome?
The Autumn Budget: Reaction
What does the future hold for LDI?
DC default design: Make sure you understand your members
How should trustees be monitoring their employer covenant?
What would be the impact of tighter regulation of actuaries?
What can be done to help savers achieve a better retirement income?
DB transfers: What trustees and employers should consider
PPF remains strong despite record liability intake
Should the FCA have brought in a charge cap for drawdown?
What next for the Pensions Regulator?
Guy Opperman talks AE, the self-employed and superfunds
Should member-nominated trustees be elected or selected?
How is LGPS pooling driving responsible investment?
Are trustees engaging suitably with fiduciary managers?
How will the UK's first pension superfund work?
Do savers want CDC?
Protecting DB pensions: The white paper’s proposals
Spring Statement 2018: What does it mean for trustees and savers?
Autumn Budget 2017: Reaction from the experts
Cyber security: Is your scheme protected?
How trustees and employers can support member decisions
A closer look at the main parties' pension proposals