Tag Archives: Human Resources

All you never wanted to know about that Pension PlayPen GPP


What are you on about now? http://www.pensionplaypen.com is a website set up to help Britain’s 1.2m employers work out auto-enrolment, adapt their existing workplace pension or get a new one and manage “auto-enrolment for life not just for staging”. As it’s the … Continue reading

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It’s not a capacity crunch it’s a traffic jam


the nature of the problem changes but the scale of the problem remains the same Continue reading

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Why bloggers won’t replace journalists


She gets the aggregates and cements, mixes the concrete , lays it and sells the building! Continue reading

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A momentous day for restoring confidence in UK pensions


We cannot have confidence in a system where member’s pensions can be impacted by as much as 30% though advisory arbitrage. Continue reading

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So what’s a good DC pension – Mr Webb?


Britain is taking on a massive enterprise as it looks to universal private pension provision in the corporate sector Continue reading

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Cobblers shoes – how an adviser selects a pension for its staff


If we can find a pension provider that knows what “good” is, I will be pleased. But I worry whether that may be as much a challenge for us. Continue reading

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Primavera for the pension playpen


This site will not be for pension people, it will be for people interested in pensions Continue reading

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Pension agnostic?


An ”agnostic“ is someone who knows he cannot know and so gives up trying to find out. You hear the phrase “pension agnostic” bandied around at the moment, mainly from the providers of ancillary services that help companies auto-enrol. If you key … Continue reading

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People get ready!


If “wave one” so far looks a success, what about waves 2 and 3 and what can the employers preparing to stage in late 2013 and onwards learn? Continue reading

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Never mind the width – feel the quality!


  In the heyday of occupational pension provision, offering membership to a company pension scheme sent a clear message to staff that the company was confident in its future and cared for its human resource. When defined benefit schemes were first … Continue reading

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