Some of you may well have attended the NAPF conference in Manchester last week.

So, who saw last Monday night's Dispatches on Channel 4 then? The programme asked the question "who stole our pensions?" without really ever coming up with an answer.

This has been my last week editing Prof Pens. I have been promoted to run another of Incisive Media's magazines, Investment Week, where I will be let loose on the wonderful world of retail investments and discretionary managers.

My time on the plinth and my one hour of symbolic retirement came and went and was probably one of the more surreal experiences of my life.

I have my spot on the plinth.

I have read somewhere it is supposed to be a sign of good character if you are attracted to socialism in your youth and then become more conservative as you get older.

My column last week ended with a defence of public sector defined benefit pension schemes and the hope that from this last bastion of shared risk, a future model for retirement savings might one day emerge.

I am sure most of you will have clicked through to the lead story where PP star reporter Jenna Towler grills our latest pensions minister Angela Eagle.

I was going to report that the silly season had begun and there was not actually much happening out there apart from the increasingly bizarre pronouncements on how to improve governance from ‘trustee champion' Lord Myners.

GLOBAL - I am writing this from a very rainy Lake District, where I am helping my mother convalesce after an operation.