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- Great question from floor. Why don't orgs paying proper contributions- promote them as extra-pay #PPIFuturebook2thanks 2 hours ago
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- Chris Wagstaff of @CTinvest_EMEA points out that sticks don't work when it comes to retirement saving -(presumably Australia doesn't count!)thanks 3 hours ago
- Are people engaging in riskier behaviour when accessing their DC savings? asks @PPI_Research Same products <advice = more risk #IMHOthanks 3 hours ago
- Between 2014 and 2015 the use of independent advice for drawdown fell from 81% to 69%.Do people know what they're doing? asks @ppi_researchthanks 3 hours ago
- Trust based occupational scheme contribution rates plummet post 2013 as impact of #AE dilutes high quality scheme rates #Futurebook2thanks 3 hours ago
- DC saving levels down as more people join workplace pensions through @AE - will contributions and pot sizes increase? #PPIfuturebook2thanks 3 hours ago
- Opt in rates for SME employees are higher than other sectors - suggesting such employees are more engaged #PPIfuturebook2thanks 3 hours ago
- The opt out rate of <20 employee employers is 17% compared with 9% for larger clients; Is this because SMEs connect better? #PPIfuturebook2thanks 3 hours ago
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Monthly Archives: October 2009
Linked in- a powerful force for good (or bad)
Linked-in is only a platform and a portal. As a platform it connects disparate people and can be a powerful means to enable good decision making. As a portal it offers opportunities for its users to find information, compare experiences and most importantly create face to face relationships , the nuances of which Linked-in can never capture. It is a means to an end but not an end in itself.
Tagged Bank, Facebook, Linked in, linked in, Local government pensions, twitter
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Dead Souls- what can trustees do about their DC deferreds?
DC deferreds are a problem. The problem is not being addressed even though solutions exist. There is no forum for discussing problems like this and there needs to be. Continue reading
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Trustee to banker
I suppose that I’d better be frank
I’m not at my best in a bank
I don’t understand oddities-
Swaps and commodaties
If that cheque is miine- leave it blank Continue reading
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Peter Booker- Funeral- Monday 26th October- Maidstone
Peter Booker was a very kind, generous and funny man who worked tirelessly to make occupational pensions better, serving on the NAPF Council and running a number of large pension plans. He had for some years been gravely ill and … Continue reading
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I’d trust a “contract” but not a “Fiduciary”
The terminology we use “fiduciary, instituional, custody” is not a language that prevails among lay trustees- it is the language of the legal and financial communities. “Fiduciary” in particular is a bad word, as an adjective it denotes “trust and confidence” but intimidates and alienates everyday people- too many vowells, too many syllables and not enough Anglo Saxon gutterality! It says “difficult, opaque and self-absorbed”.
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Posted in dc pensions, de-risking, Liability Driven Investment, Personal Accounts, redington, Retirement, social media
Tagged corporate risk, dc pensions, de-risking, Liability Driven Investment, Pension new, Pensions, Persnal Accounts, Personal Accounts, redington, Retirement, social media
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I outsourced my pension fund to a Fiduciary Manager (but didn’t know it)
I discovered I’d outsourced my personal pension fund to a Fiduciary Manager. So had all my colleagues, so had 90% of the 14,000 personal pension holders who are my clients and so had the trustees and sponsors of all the Schemes I’d been involved in at Zurich and Eagle Star Continue reading
Posted in EU Solvency II, Fiduciary Management, Liability Driven Investment, redington, Retirement, Treasury
Tagged Adolf Hitler, car crash, cardano, corporate risk, DB pension, DC pension, Eagle Star, EU Solvency II, Fiduciary Management, God, implemented consulting, Kerrin Rosenburg, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Liability Driven Investment, Lifestyle, Moliere, Monsieur Jordain, redington, Retirement, Robert Gardner, Treasury, trustees, world war 1, world war 2, Zurich
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Contract based DB- Redington v Cardano- no blood!
Full house in St Albans for the Redington/Cardano match-off. Morinho v Ferguson, Ali v Fraser, Cowell v Walsh-we had been promised blood. Things started poorly, a weak show of hands from the audience on who was supporting who (needed some hand helds to give … Continue reading
Ofgem are right to close a pensions scam
The unions need to be reminded that the cost of energy increases falls hardest on the poorest members of society and in defending the “legal right” of a group of companies not to manage their pension costs, they are condemning the poorest in society to greater hardship.
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Hope I die before I get old
As a nation we are Townsendian rathan than Gallaherailian in our outlook. Continue reading
