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PodcastsAlways A Pensions Angle: What the Chancellor said
With no big surprises and barely a flicker from the gilt market, was this a deliberately dull Budget designed to avoid another 2022? Co-hosts Tom Parker and Nick Reeve dissect the chancellor’s speech.
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PodcastsAlways A Pensions Angle: Budget 2026 Preview Special
Co-hosts Nick Reeve and Tom Parker celebrate their podcast’s first birthday by looking ahead to this week’s much-anticipated Budget speech from chancellor John Healey.
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PodcastsAlways A Pensions Angle: Light Green Fever
Fresh from the Pensions UK Annual Conference in Liverpool, podcast co-hosts Nick Reeve and Tom Parker dissect the pensions minister’s speech and discuss AI, the state pension, and local government pensions.
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PodcastsAlways A Pensions Angle: Binary Conversations
In this episode of the Always A Pensions Angle podcast, co-hosts Tom Parker and Nick Reeve delve into the world of defined contribution and Value for Money.
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PodcastsAlways A Pensions Angle: Fixing it before it breaks
In this episode, Tom and Nick dive into the Pensions Regulator’s “no surprises” enforcement approach, as well as DC consolidation, housing costs, and the latest on LGPS pooling.
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PodcastsThe LGPS Interviews: Max Townshend, Local Pensions Partnership Investments
Max Townshend, head of investment strategy at Local Pensions Partnership Investments, talks to Tom Parker about the LGPS pool’s recent expansion and how this has affected its investment operations and strategy.
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PodcastsAlways A Pensions Angle: Endgame drift and investment dilemmas
The Always A Pensions Angle team looks back on some stories listeners may have missed over the summer, from endgame developments to AI, from conflict zone investment to affordable housing.
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PodcastsAlways A Pensions Angle: Plumbing the depths of section 75
In the latest episode of Always A Pensions Angle, co-hosts Tom Parker and Nick Reeve tap into a plumbing industry pensions story, Torsten Bell’s continuation as pensions minister, and the latest efforts to boost investment in the UK.
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PodcastsAlways A Pensions Angle: What the Commission heard…
As pensions minister (for now) Torsten Bell drops a bumper package of regulatory updates, co-hosts Tom Parker and Nick Reeve sift through the paperwork and also look into what the pensions industry is telling the Pensions Commission.
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PodcastsAlways A Pensions Angle: Gold Stars and Grey Areas - LGPS Guidance Unpacked
Fresh from the LAPF Strategic Investment Forum, Tom Parker, Nick Reeve and Brian Gielty explore themes from the conference and the big talking points from the government’s ‘Fit for the Future’ guidance.
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PodcastsAlways A Pensions Angle: SpaceX, Surpluses, and the Senior LGPS Officer
With SpaceX launching onto public markets with a $2trn-plus valuation, podcast co-hosts Tom Parker and Nick Reeve don their pension-themed spacesuits to explore some of the more pressing issues it raises.
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FeaturesAlways A Pensions Angle: The World Cup of Pensions
With the FIFA World Cup kicking off in North America, Pensions Expert has joined forces with LAPF Investments through the Always A Pensions Angle podcast to find out which of the countries represented in the tournament can boast the ultimate retirement system.
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PodcastsAlways A Pensions Angle: Fit for the Future, Dashboards, and Retirement Living Standards
This week sees the podcast team looking at the LGPS, which has a little more time to get Fit for the Future as some important deadlines have been extended. There are also updates on dashboards, AI, and Retirement Living Standards.
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PodcastsAlways A Pensions Angle: The Report, the Gap and the Robot in the Room
In this bumper edition of the podcast, co-hosts Thomas Parker and Nick Reeve explore the Pensions Commission’s interim report, the gender pensions gap, local investment, investing in conflict zones, and artificial intelligence.
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PodcastsAlways A Pensions Angle: Border to Coast CIO Joe McDonnell
How does a chief investment officer tackle the challenges of bringing on board seven new pension fund clients at once? Border to Coast’s Joe McDonnell speaks to Nick Reeve and Thomas Parker.
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PodcastsAlways A Pensions Angle: Live from the LGPS Pooling Symposium
What does the Pension Schemes Act really mean for the Local Government Pension Scheme? And what didn’t make it in that we really should be paying attention to?
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PodcastsAlways A Pensions Angle: Ping pong, Trojan horses and the Pension Schemes Act
The Pension Schemes Bill is now the Pension Schemes Act. Co-hosts Nick Reeve and Tom Parker walk through the final week of parliamentary ping pong and the last-minute concessions that got the legislation over the line.
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PodcastsAlways A Pensions Angle: Sunny in Fife, cloudy on salary sacrifice
It may be Easter, but that doesn’t mean the podcast team are resting. The latest episode explores LGPS pooling as the ‘Fit for the Future’ deadline passes, and travels Down Under to find out what drives Aussie supers’ performance.
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PodcastsPodcast: Avon’s Nick Dixon on member engagement in the LGPS
Always A Pensions Angle has teamed up with the Fifty Faces Podcast for a series of interviews with senior professionals from across the LGPS. The fifth and final episode features Nick Dixon of the Avon Pension Fund.
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PodcastsAlways a Pensions Angle: Shadow pensions minister Helen Whately MP on mandation
All eyes were on parliament again this week, as peers scrutinised the Pension Schemes Bill amid mounting opposition to the mandation power. The Always a Pensions Angle team was among those watching intently.