Tag Archives: Business

Define your aspiration.

Posted on February 13, 2012 by

Last week, the brotherhood  of DB and DC pensions got a little sister when Steve Webb introduced the prospect of DA to the family. There is nothing new about the search for a third way, indeed it is the pensions equivalent of the … Continue reading →

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Facilitators and Institutions Defined?

Posted on February 12, 2012 by

  This is an excellent peice by “pragmatist” who blogs at   www.sdj-pragmatist.blogspot.com   “ In essence, I’ve defined “facilitators” as organisations that exist to solve their own problems; and “institutions” as organisations that exist to solve their own problems at their … Continue reading →

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Popcorn Pensions III – transforming the business of Pensions

Posted on January 28, 2012 by

If you’ve been following my posts recently, (thanks) you’ll be aware of a thread defined by the phrase “Popcorn Pensions” that refers to my friend Peter Shellswell’s KFC moment. Peter told me over the Popcorn Chicken that he’d decided to move on from … Continue reading →

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Controlling wealth is not the same as generating wealth

Posted on January 26, 2012 by

IFAs Control £591bn of Britain’s wealth. That’s a whole lot of moley. Continue reading →

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A hunger to educate – more on Popcorn Pensions

Posted on January 25, 2012 by

Hunger is not a word you’d associate with actuaries. One of our clients described the team working for her as “happy puppies” who approached the task of educating members with ” hunger“. These are not words that exist in the … Continue reading →

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The Racket of the Lambs – 20 things you never wanted to know about Pension Rocks III’s top band

Posted on January 19, 2012 by

The Racket of the Lambs is the house band of the Pension Play Pen- Europe‘s fastest growing pension group (unverified). It is led by the Jackal – Simon Kew Its musical director is the Legend (that is Dick Strattan) 4.   Our Drummer is … Continue reading →

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Popcorn pensions

Posted on January 10, 2012 by

I was sitting in Kentucky Fried Chicken with my friend Mr Peter Shellswell last week. We were eating the salad in case you are wondering. Popcorn chicken and gravy is my fave but we’d decided to be good. Continue reading →

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Don’t tell me what to do – give me advice!

Posted on January 2, 2012 by

In a recent polldaddy poll I asked whether people would pay for advice to get information, find out their options or to be told what to do. 60% of people wanted options , 30% wanted to be told what to do and 10% … Continue reading →

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Mothball NEST till 2017

Posted on December 3, 2011 by

Should we mothball NEST and brush it off in 2017? Maybe a little drastic but we certainly need to scale back the amount it is spending both in events and it its payroll.
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Treasury 1 DWP 0 (Steve Webb o.g. 89 minutes)

Posted on November 28, 2011 by

I wouldn’t like to be Steve Webb this afternoon. Having protested for the past few weeks that the DWP‘s auto-enrolment timeline was carved in stone, we learn today that employers with 3000 or less employees  (for details follow this link!) will have another year or so to … Continue reading →

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