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Employers can help staff with their money – if only we’d let them
It’s time companies got their mojo back and got real with staff. Www.pensionplaypen.com helps to do just that. Continue reading
Good with food – not so good with money.
The sad events at the Co-operative Bank this year are not the first financial services scandal to hit the Co-operative movements. Less publicised but no less carnal, was the behaviour of the management of Co-operative Insurance Services (CIS) who were … Continue reading
Posted in auto-enrolment, Bankers, Change, club pension
Tagged Business, co-op, Government, Human Resources, Investing, mutual, Pension Poverty, pensions
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Why bother to save? – Invest instead!
What this policy is about is getting people to invest in real assets for the best interests in society Continue reading
Posted in annuity, auto-enrolment, Bankers, Change, club pension, Management, Mark Carney, pensions, social media, workplace pensions
Tagged BOE, Business, Business and Economy, Defined benefit pension plan, Employment, Fiscal, Government, Human Resources, Inflation, Insurance, interest, Mark Carney, monetary, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, rates, Retirement
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King Canute got governance about right!
If we are to become as effective in the management of our pension funds as our German and Dutch cousins, we are going to have learn the lessons of Canute and concentrate our governance though centralised channels focussing on things we can do something about. Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, annuity, auto-enrolment, David Pitt-Watson, dc pensions, defined aspiration, FSA
Tagged canute, corporate governance, corporate risk, dc pensions, de-risking, Defined benefit pension plan, DWP, Employment, Financial services, Financial Services Authority, Government, Human Resources, Pension new
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You have sat too long…non-performing DC trust boards should go
The biggest threat to workplace pensions in this country is political. The next election will be fought on a growth agenda and every Government department (other than the DWP) will be taking a long hard look at the employer duties … Continue reading
Giving “pensions” back its good name!
What do we mean by Pension Governance? When we listen to a musical recording what we hear is the perfect balance between instruments achieved by expert mixing. Pensions Governance does that mixing job for your workplace pension , making sure … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, annuity, social media
Tagged Business, corporate governance, corporate risk, dc pensions, Financial services, Government, Human Resources, Investment, Life annuity, pension playpen, pensions, public sector, Public Sector Pensions, Retirement, Steve Webb, United States
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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
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
Why bloggers won’t replace journalists
She gets the aggregates and cements, mixes the concrete , lays it and sells the building! Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, auto-enrolment, pensions
Tagged Education, Employee benefit, Human Resources, Journalist, Payroll, pension, Whitbread, Yeomen Warders
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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