The lang cat‘s Tom McPhail talks with industry experts and insiders about pensions and investments, regulation, technology, politics and policy-making . Grown-up financial services insights for people who work here. Tom is one of the industry‘s leading experts on pensions and retirement for over 20 years and former Head of Policy for the FTSE100 firm Hargreaves Lansdown. You can also find him on Twitter as @pensionsmonkey
Episodes
Thursday Mar 14, 2024
Collective Defined Contribution schemes are going to save pensions
Thursday Mar 14, 2024
Thursday Mar 14, 2024
Adrian Boulding makes a compelling case, not just why CDC schemes are a good idea but also, crucially how they are actually going to happen
Thursday Mar 07, 2024
Having fun on Budget Day
Thursday Mar 07, 2024
Thursday Mar 07, 2024
Tom Selby and I unpick the political, fiscal and personal finance fun and games of the Budget
Friday Mar 01, 2024
Bridging the financial guidance gap
Friday Mar 01, 2024
Friday Mar 01, 2024
In which Robert and Charlie from Money Guided talk about how to help people manage their money better
Monday Feb 26, 2024
A long-term savings commission
Monday Feb 26, 2024
Monday Feb 26, 2024
Andrew Tully from Nucleus on why we need a long-term savings commission
Friday Jan 19, 2024
How do we fix pension transfers?
Friday Jan 19, 2024
Friday Jan 19, 2024
...in Which Dave Henderson of Penny https://pennypension.com and I offer a couple of suggestions for how to make pension transfers work better
Sunday Jan 14, 2024
The Gregg McClymont episode
Sunday Jan 14, 2024
Sunday Jan 14, 2024
...in which Gregg talks to me about pension investments in infrastructure and politics from the viewpoint of an ex-shadow pensions minister.
Tuesday Dec 19, 2023
Everything you ever wanted to know about the Advice Guidance Boundary Review...
Tuesday Dec 19, 2023
Tuesday Dec 19, 2023
The FCA's proposed solutions and consultation questions analysed with expert help from Nathan Long of Hargreaves Lansdown and Michael Lawrence of Bovill. You can also read Michael's thoughts here Advice Guidance Boundary Review puts transformative change on horizon - Bovill
Tuesday Dec 12, 2023
The expert view on pension dashboards
Tuesday Dec 12, 2023
Tuesday Dec 12, 2023
Richard Smith gives the expert's view on where we're at with the development of pension dashboards, drawing on years of experience in the UK and fresh insights from across Europe.
Tuesday Nov 28, 2023
How confident are we about retirement?
Tuesday Nov 28, 2023
Tuesday Nov 28, 2023
Andy Tully joins me to talk through the Nucleus research on retirement confidence; who's confident, who isn't and the factors that affect confidence. Clue: it's really important to have a plan...
Friday Nov 24, 2023
The Autumn Statement
Friday Nov 24, 2023
Friday Nov 24, 2023
Another big week for pensions policy, James Dowling helps me pick out the highlights.