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Politics , technology and pensions – are now aligned in Britain to compete.
I know what is trying to be said here, but the bit about pensions is rather wrong. Will Hutton is quite right about our obsession with the legacy of Peter Mandelson . The redacted and non-redacted papers teach us nothing … Continue reading
Why aren’t we all pension millionaires?
While an excellent discussion of how to improve the income people get from saving for a pension was taking place with Jonathan Stapleton, a range of commentators were lining up to bemoan the ignorance of the public. The Pensions UK … Continue reading
When can our retirement wage cut be displayed on our phone?
Kevin Peachey writes a sad article in the BBC about our retirement prospects. Richard Smith has a further point to make; he makes it very well! I’ve reported the Pensions UK report from the perspective of a well off FT … Continue reading
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We hope large pension funds will deliver but…
I am with Jo Cumbo that without governance , scrutiny and perseverance large schemes can underperform. When I first came into pensions I was confined to using the mighty Allied Dunbar Managed Fund. I was given the same sale that … Continue reading
Major news from Nest which points to a pensions success.
It is easy to poke fun at consolidation and the establishment of megafunds. It is not easy to create a pension fund that invests nearly a quarter of its assets as Nest does in Britain, in its infrastructure and production. … Continue reading
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Tagged assets, Business, CDC, DWP, Financial services, Government, Long Term Assets, National Employment Savings Trust, NEST, pension, Pensions, Retirement, Scale
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Gen Z say they want to be sold pension not products
Well – I can confirm that Gen Z is being mis-sold a pension at the end of their rainbow. Over a third of young people believe the pensions industry and the wider financial services sector do not adequately communicate the … Continue reading
When employers abandon pensions – what happens to deferred pay?
Only 790 employers pay into their own DC workplace pension. What role do employers have in their staff’s pensions? They are responsible to paying over contributions , enrolling and re-enrolling staff and choosing a workplace pension. But nowadays the core … Continue reading
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Tagged CDC, Deferred Pay, employers, interest, National Insurance, Pensions
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Sick and tired – never retired.
Pension Bee have issued this report and I’m glad they have Thanks to Pension Bee for making this important. I have not read about this in the Pensions Commission report or thought about it as Becky O’Connor is asking … Continue reading
Employers can regain ownership of pensions with CDC
Some time ago we came to the conclusion that employers no longer had the same ownership of their pension funds. Ownership has passed to insurers who bought out what they once thought their pension funds, it has passed to the … Continue reading
NEETs do not need worries about “pension-wealth”
So it’s now 6 months since the ONS broke the bad news for youngsters and it looks like the pensions industry or at least its marketing department, is waking up to an opportunity. Under 24 and under pensioned? Under 24 … Continue reading