Importance of Insurance and Fund Manager Performance

In this latest pile of TRAP, the Trap Pack discuss

• Topical issues, including BTC ETFs coming here, insurance payouts from Royal London, SPIVA Persistence, Bank of Ireland saving rate rises, pension dashboard (really dull), Canada Pension Plan active follies, Abrdn price cuts
• Meat and Potatoes: Politics - do you or don’t you?
• Questions posted by our beloved TRAPist www.twitter.com/DomSpalding
• Culture Corner

Links referred to in the show:

• Vanguard TRAP landing page: https://www.vanguard.co.uk/professional/insights-education/events-webinars/vanguard-at-the-real-adviser-podcast
• Timeline TRAP landing page: https://www.timeline.co/trap-live
• CW: The US TRAP?! The Unlock https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GP-laLIlss
• AS - BTC ETFs arrive in the UK 
• https://www.ft.com/content/76e9ecf3-4429-42c5-a945-43ab92abfda4
• AH Royal London 2023 claims payout - https://adviser.royallondon.com/protection/our-claims-record/ 
• NL: Neil Woodford’s excellent piece on the decline of the UK stock market (as covered by us in episode 17) (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2056762/12602273)
  https://www.woodfordviews.com/post/a-quarter-century-of-damaging-reforms
• AS - SPIVA Persistence Report Card https://www.spglobal.com/spdji/en/spiva/article/europe-persistence-scorecar
• CW: Bank of Ireland raises interest rates https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2024/0529/1451872-bank-of-ireland-deposit-rates/
• AH - Pension Dashboards - Aviva and Scottish Widows plan to become official pensions dashboard operators, joining a coalition of companies seeking to breathe life into the long-delayed project. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/aviva-and-scottish-widows-to-join-pension-dashboard-coalition-55f5ctfnf 
• NL: Canada Pension Plan Fund tale of active woe: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-eighteen-years-and-46-billion-later-the-cpp-admits-it-could-have/
• AS Abrdn price cut -  are we heading to 100 bps all in? AH YES WE ARE. 
• AH - Motem - client journey Melissa Kidd - https://m

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