Dave Brooks @pensionsdave.bsky.social · 20/05/2025Pension consultants getting younger all the time! 030
Dave Brooks @pensionsdave.bsky.social · 06/05/2025My chum Andy is back and gives some interesting thoughts on private equity investing for pensions youtube.com/playlist?lis...youtube.comPensions in 10 - YouTubeJoin us every week for a brief look at the big pensions news stories in under 10 minutes, hosted by our very own Broadstone specialists. We will discuss the ... 231
Reposted by Dave BrooksMarcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Look whose house in London I just walked past. Only the most important physicist between Newton and Einstein. Distilled all electric and magnetic phenomena into one neat set of equations. Realised light is a disturbance rippling through the invisible electric and magnetic fields of empty space. 39310
Reposted by Dave BrooksMike Harrison @higheredactuary.bsky.social · 05/04/2025A fascinating UK pensions job for someone but note the 11 April deadline! Worth sharing round the friends of pensions BlueSky? @stevewebb1.bsky.social @henrytapper.bsky.social @pensionsdave.bsky.social @prospectpension.bsky.social @stephawthorne.bsky.social @jonstapleton.bsky.social 023
Reposted by Dave BrooksJeff Overs @jeffovers.bsky.social · 12/02/2025As tonight’s #SnowMoon is clouded out, here is a previous February (2020) moonrise over the golden dome of Eastbourne Pier during the evening starling murmurations 26112
Reposted by Dave BrooksGreg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 13/03/2025AI search engines are more often wrong than correct when providing information. The premium ones are EVEN MORE wrong! www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...cjr.orgAI Search Has A Citation ProblemWe Compared Eight AI Search Engines. They’re All Bad at Citing News. 68416
Dave Brooks @pensionsdave.bsky.social · 09/03/2025Sunday morning vibes for you all youtu.be/nMuTgStG8w0?...youtu.beGlass Beams - 'Mahal' (Live)YouTube video by Glass Beams 010
Reposted by Dave BrooksMarie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 22/02/2025googled him with such vigour and urgency that I typed "crdanial pizzaballa" 201607
Dave Brooks @pensionsdave.bsky.social · 13/02/2025All this talk of Gulf of America… now have this song on repeat in my head youtu.be/QqPs2OjGrYY?... Definitely doesn’t scan as well Trump’s way.youtu.beJOHNNY HORTON-"THE BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS"(VINYL + LYRICS)YouTube video by Ron Wells 000
Dave Brooks @pensionsdave.bsky.social · 12/02/2025#alwaysapensionsangle here we go. Elon addressing pensions admin. What’s his view on microfiche? 020
Reposted by Dave BrooksGreg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 08/02/2025YES!!! I WILL DIE ON THIS HILL!!! Nonplussed does not mean ‘not bothered’, it means the exact opposite!!! 2419811
Reposted by Dave BrooksFelicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Hey, I am looking for your questions around pensions for next week’s Money Box Live. Maybe you’re 18 and wondering what age to start, maybe you’re 50 and getting a bit anxious. Maybe you want to check your investments are ethical. Maybe something else entirely! Email me felicity.hannah@bbc.co.uk 81324
Dave Brooks @pensionsdave.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Fascinating conversation with former pensions minister Paul Maynard and co-host @pensionssimon.bsky.social. Excellent stuff. youtu.be/1eZHidjM8jQ?...youtu.beBehind the Desk: The Reality of Being a Pensions Minister | The BroadcastYouTube video by Broadstone Corporate Benefits Ltd 000
Dave Brooks @pensionsdave.bsky.social · 04/02/2025media.tenor.coma man in a plaid shirt makes a call me gestureALT: a man in a plaid shirt makes a call me gesture 010
Dave Brooks @pensionsdave.bsky.social · 04/02/2025The latest Pensions in 10 with my chum @pensionssimon.bsky.social plus a hat tip to @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com for his pensions coverage 👍 youtu.be/heT4Fdel5e0?...youtu.bePPF levy and surplus, Bank of England Repo & Martin Lewis and pensions | Pensions in 10YouTube video by Broadstone Corporate Benefits Ltd 010
Reposted by Dave BrooksMartin Lewis @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com · 29/01/2025Near retirement? There’s a huge tax trap to avoid when withdrawing from a pension. This is my simple video analogy but always get 1-on-1 free guidance from PensionWise first. This is just a titbit, watch my full Pension special on @itvmlshow.bsky.social: www.itv.com/watch/the-ma...youtu.beMartin Lewis: How you can avoid the massive tax trap when you take money out of a pensionYouTube video by MoneySavingExpert.com 1116023
Reposted by Dave BrooksTorsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Growth isn’t about abstract figures that only matter to economists. Growing the economy is how we get wages up and public services delivering in Wales and across the UK. The Chancellor is right. It’s time we get building again. 155612
Dave Brooks @pensionsdave.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Pensions in 10 with me and @pensionssimon.bsky.social keeping up with the world of pensions. youtu.be/lZ5Qx8_WdFE?...youtu.beDB Surplus, Triple lock & Auto-enrolment | Pensions in 10YouTube video by Broadstone Corporate Benefits Ltd 030
Reposted by Dave BrooksChris Budd @stuffer.bsky.social · 27/01/2025A new piece from me for @ftadviser.bsky.social on financial education. Why does it have such little impact, and what can we do about it? www.ftadviser.com/diversity-in...ftadviser.comWhy does financial education have such little impact?Many financial education initiatives, in schools and the workplace in particular, have been created over the past decade. 121
Dave Brooks @pensionsdave.bsky.social · 27/01/2025Robyn and I did our first Hyrox at the weekend. On for our target time but an injury near the end messed that up. We’ll be back. Unfinished business. #hyrox 140
Dave Brooks @pensionsdave.bsky.social · 26/01/2025Is this use of surplus without risking member security and keeping the scheme going? Run on with wings. Return of the public sector consolidator? 010
Reposted by Dave BrooksPhil Tinline @philtinline.bsky.social · 18/01/2025I can't decide what's more terrifying: 1. the nightmare news that *0.33%* of our millionaires have left the country, or 2. the horrifying tidings that ***0.5%** of pupils have left the private sector. (h/t @samfr.bsky.social) It's almost as bad as the bond market-driven collapse of our economy. 2177
Reposted by Dave BrooksJames O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 18/01/2025An early contender for headline of the year… 593814602
Reposted by Dave BrooksJames Fitzgerald @jamesfitzjourno.bsky.social · 18/01/2025Two things... They still have to pay tax on UK assets no matter where they live, and... 10k is a very small figure compared to how many millionaires reside in the UK. 2110720
Reposted by Dave BrooksJim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/01/2025you have to ask - again - whether they understand that 10,000 is a barely significant rounding error in a country with 3 million millionaires 1331029248
Dave Brooks @pensionsdave.bsky.social · 16/01/2025I am sure we’ve all forgotten about the credit crunch. 051
Dave Brooks @pensionsdave.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Latest pensions in 10 with @pensionssimon.bsky.social and I covering the top pensions stories youtu.be/maS4y1HbVjI?...youtu.beGilt yields, Unlocking investment roundtable, Ig Nobel longevity & SPP videos | Pensions in 10YouTube video by Broadstone Corporate Benefits Ltd 000
Reposted by Dave BrooksTodd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 11/01/2025Much has been said about Spielberg’s uncanny ability to tell a story within a frame and set up geography, and usually folks use his long oners as examples of this talent. But here’s an innocuous 26-second-long shot from “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” (1989) that does all those things. 1259180
Reposted by Dave BrooksDuncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 10/01/2025I think there is a decent argument that the best response from the CX to higher gilt yields at the Spring Statement would be to not respond. Publish the new forecasts and promise to respond at the Autumn budget. Shouldn’t get into the habit of multiple in-year changes in fiscal policy. 1527
Dave Brooks @pensionsdave.bsky.social · 07/01/2025Latest Pensions in 10 and the first of 2025 together with @pensionssimon.bsky.social youtu.be/AfCkAgPVueU?...youtu.beLGPS discussions | Pensions in 10YouTube video by Broadstone Corporate Benefits Ltd 010
Reposted by Dave BrooksMary McDougall @marymcd.bsky.social · 05/01/2025Rachel Reeves has said she wants pension funds to “learn lessons from the Canadian model.” Those lessons, she hopes, could inspire a gush of money into British infrastructure and fast-growing businesses. But might the real lessons from Canada look quite different? www.ft.com/content/7938...ft.comShould the UK really look to Canada’s pension system as its model?Chancellor Rachel Reeves wants to learn lessons from the ‘Maple 8’ — but they have their own problems 154
Reposted by Dave BrooksSimon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 04/01/2025Some good news from the southern tip of Africa: life expectancy is on the up again after the Aids crisis. Source: www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/co… 06615
Reposted by Dave BrooksStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 04/01/2025Mesmerised by this quote. 3437849
Reposted by Dave BrooksTony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 31/12/2024Great anecdote here from former FT editor Richard Lambert on the time Manmohan Singh came to the FT to talk with him and Martin Wolf. H/T @andymukherjee70.bsky.social 8655190
Reposted by Dave BrooksStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 31/12/2024What if we don’t really have free will? Terrific, thoughtful column by @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social on a terrific, thoughtful book:thetimes.comBig tech firms know us better than we doKeeping to new year’s resolutions looks doubly hard when you realise how insistently our free will is undermined 94913
Reposted by Dave BrooksJohn Bull @garius.bsky.social · 30/12/2024ADVENTURER: Dragon! We are here for your gold! Prepare to die! DRAGON: My gold? ADVENTURER: Yes! We climbed this great mountain, swam it's flooded caverns and- DRAGON: Fair enough ADVENTURER: Wait, what? DRAGON: It's yours ADVENTURER: DRAGON: How are you carrying it out of here? ADVENTURER: Um... /1 8533571141
Reposted by Dave BrooksPaul Lewis @paullewismoney.bsky.social · 28/12/2024Small pockets of hard to explain longevity? No, it’s just people claiming dead relatives’ pensions, says researcher bit.ly/3BQE7iDbit.lyScientist exposes secret behind ‘blue zone’ diet myth: pension fraudA researcher wins an Ig Nobel prize for his work on record-keeping systems where people live longer than average — and says the data is flawed 65919
Reposted by Dave BrooksPraṇay Manocha @pranman.com · 26/12/2024This in The Times is designed to alarm wealthy people, which is why this front page article has been written by a political correspondent and not by an education or business journalist. Private schools aren't collapsing & 3,000 more children in state schools is just a normal day. Literal non-story. 791342251
Reposted by Dave BrooksJulian Girdham @sccenglish.bsky.social · 24/12/2024It’s time for the annual posting of this Private Eye cartoon by Dave. Festive greetings to all English teachers. 013848
Reposted by Dave BrooksRandall Munroe @xkcd.com · 24/12/2024What if we put a pool on the moon? Watch the latest What If? video collaboration with Minute Earth! www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIIB...youtube.comWhat if we put a pool on the moon?YouTube video by xkcd's What If? 322188274
Reposted by Dave BrooksGareth Davies @garethtbij.bsky.social · 20/12/2024Here's what Ange said to Sky Sports last night in full. It's one of the great post match interviews. Here's a man who believes with every fibre that football should be entertainment. There's also value, even for people with no interest at all, in how he deals with individual mistakesyoutube.com"Are you not entertained?" 😂 | Postecoglou's brilliant post-match reaction after Carabao Cup winYouTube video by Sky Sports Football 710920
Reposted by Dave BrooksAnand Giridharadas @anandwrites.bsky.social · 18/12/2024He died as he lived, clicking “Forgot password,” then checking his inbox for a code, then putting in that code, then setting up two-step verification, and then waiting for the text message that doesn’t come, and then calling the 800 number, and then downloading an authenticator app, and dying. 24497861550
Reposted by Dave BrooksBryn Davies @daviesofbrixton.bsky.social · 19/12/2024Govt. response on phase 2 much as could be expected “…. we are committed to a second phase focused on retirement adequacy, of which we will provide further details in due course.” There is a slight hint (no more) in the follow up that the DWP might be keener than HMT on making progress. 131
