Monthly Archives: May 2013
“Fair and True” applies to the DWP too!
Steve Webb has a public policy success on his hands but if he’s to capitalise on the good news from large employers, he’s going to take a few bullets now. Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, auto-enrolment, pensions
Tagged Department for Work and Pensions, DWP, Employment, Financial services, Government, pension, Steve Webb, Universal Credit
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Why target date funds have been slow to catch on
with all the headwinds in the favour of TDFs and against Lifestyle it’s hard to see why insurers aren’t switching to TDFs Continue reading
Posted in actuaries, advice gap, annuity, auto-enrolment, governance, investment
Tagged BlackRock, Funds, Investing, Lifestyle, Mutual fund, SHPS, Target date fund, United States
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Pensions for nothing and advice for free
Insurers will reconsider their options on schemes where commission is paid but no advice is delivered Continue reading
Posted in auto-enrolment, investment, NEST, pensions
Tagged AMC, Consultant, Employment, Financial services, Insurance, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, Trail commission
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Does this fit on your smartphone?
For a really well crafted blog , it’s hard to beat this little beauty Benedict Evans explains how in going for separate parts of the market, Apple and Samsung have carved up the global smartphone market and knocking out mighty … Continue reading
Posted in auto-enrolment, pensions, social media
Tagged Android, Apple, Blackberry, Galaxies, IPhone, Nokia, Samsung, Smartphone
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Play up Primark!
What is the connection between Britain’s favourite clothing retailer and the South Coast’s worst managed football club? Step forward Colin Hately, folically challenged supremo of the AB Foods (owner of Primark) pension schemes and Pompey till he dies! Colin looks the … Continue reading
Posted in auto-enrolment, dc pensions, pensions
Tagged Christmas, DC Comics, Employment, Ian Smith, pension, Pompey, Portsmouth, Primark
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Ten sexy stats that drive pension firms wild!
But if you think your workforce special, you’ll want to get a whole of market quote. You wouldn’t insure your business assets or your liabilities any other way. Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, auto-enrolment, dc pensions, happiness, pensions
Tagged Aviva, BlackRock, Friends Life, Insurance, pension, Scottish Widows, Standard Life, UK State Pension
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Enough of this silly points-scoring!
We’re all at it and I don’t exclude me. Boys will be boys and give us a Business Development tag on our business cards and we go “all testosterone”. I got dissed last week by one of our rivals who … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, First Actuarial, pensions
Tagged Antler, Business, Card (sports), Deer, Recreation, twitter, unilever, World Series of Poker
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Spammed out on linkedin?
This article is about the inane messages we get on LinkedIn, why people send them and why they’re a waste of time There are two types of messages that really frustrate me when they arrive in my LinkedIn inbox. The … Continue reading
Posted in Linkedin, pensions, social media
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If it’s worth having- let’s have it now!
News travels fast on the web but the news that it’s taken the BBC 5 years to work out that a lot of the technology they’d blown £100m on is available today for free, clearly travelled slowly. If a technology … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, auto-enrolment, pensions, Popcorn Pensions
Tagged BBC, Digital electronics, Digital media, IPhone, Liquid crystal display, Regent Street, Salford Quays, YouTube
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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
Posted in advice gap, auto-enrolment, pensions
Tagged Education, Employee benefit, Human Resources, Journalist, Payroll, pension, Whitbread, Yeomen Warders
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