Tag Archives: Webb

Steve Webb’s water-cooler moment

Posted on April 27, 2013 by

“You learn what they care about, what they understand and what they don’t. And you can join in. But what you can’t do, is take charge.” Continue reading →

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Pot noodles member

Posted on April 26, 2013 by

Think technology Steve, small pots will become a lot smaller through aggregation and operation big fat pot may end up being renamed “Webb’s folly”.
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Is auto-enrolment working? – November Play Pen lunch

Posted on November 6, 2012 by

On the day that Steve Webb declared victory (tentatively) for auto-enrolment, the Play Pen sat down for a pint and a pie in the Counting House and after a long and rigorous debate concluded that he might be right. The vote among … Continue reading →

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Payroll follows member!

Posted on October 30, 2012 by

There is an unholy row going on between the NAPF on one side and the DWP and the ABI on the other centering on whether the average Joe wants the pension “pot” from his former employer to follow him to his new … Continue reading →

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“From Kent where we are not” – Leonard Cohen’s Wembley Arena Show

Posted on September 10, 2012 by

They are from Kent, where we are not So Cohen introduced the Webb sisters - Hattie and Charlie, who have grown in vocal stature since Cohen was last seen here and now dwarf the considerable talent of Sharon Robinson. The three hour show … Continue reading →

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Send in forensic actuaries to sort out these “rip-off” pensions!

Posted on July 25, 2012 by

Spookily, a couple of hours after I’d published yesterday’s blog about how the DWP had ducked the dodgy question of how to sort out legacy pension charges, Steve Webb, the Pension Minister issued an appeal to the pensions industry to … Continue reading →

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Steve Webb needs hard cash for his defined ambitions.

Posted on April 9, 2012 by

Steve Webb needs more than “ambition” to sort out disillusion with pensions. Continue reading →

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Steve Webb’s good week

Posted on March 24, 2012 by

Now anyone who can talk of a “regulatory regime which allows 1000 flowers to bloom” has got to have been taking the happy pills. Continue reading →

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Yes pensions minister

Posted on February 16, 2012 by

What was Steve Webb doing last week in launching aspirational pensions? Apparently, senior strategists within the DWP were as nonplussed as the majority of his audience as Steve called for a return to the pensions culture that fostered the defined benefit … Continue reading →

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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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