Monthly Archives: June 2013
“We don’t know what we’re doing”!
To the average fan it is not the fans or player or clubs that bring the game into disrepute it is the referee – hence the chants the politest of which is “you don’t know what you’re doing”. But it’s never that simple. What … Continue reading
Posted in actuaries, advice gap, auto-enrolment
Tagged Funds, Government, Gregg McClymont, Morningstar, Office of Fair Trading, OFT, pension, Steve Webb
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My mother is a donut
My mother is someone who I have admiration for. This afternoon we went to walk Rosa the dog ; but when we got out of the car she discovered she was in her house slippers. Rather than abort the … Continue reading
Posted in doctors
Tagged Baking, Berwick St John, Doughnut, Dunkin Donuts, Mother's Day, National Doughnut Day, Salisbury, Walking
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A message to 1.2m employers who aren’t reading (yet)!
We are in danger of letting the cost of auto-enrolment exceed its value Continue reading
Posted in auto-enrolment, customer service, pensions
Tagged Aegon, DWP, Leslie Williams, Lloyds Banking Group, Martin Lewis, pension, Standard Life, Steve Webb
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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
Waiting for Dunkirk ; The Pensions and Benefits show #pb13.
We’ve seen the early skirmishes which have been won by large employers throwing money at the problem but our Dunkirk has yet to come Continue reading
Posted in pension playpen, pensions
Tagged Aon Hewitt, Dunkirk, KPMG, pension, Phoney War, Speed dating, Steve Webb, Towers Watson
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Will no one rid me of this troublesome press? Mr Godfrey defends “Corporate Access”.
I intend to make a lot of noise and suggest that you send Daniel a lot of your noise too,
Send your noise to daniel.godfrey@investmentuk.org
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Posted in pensions
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Not what’s in the pot but what it buys – Pension RTI
Progress means talking straight with people, it isn’t always pleasant but it has to be done. Continue reading
In a muddle about investment management fees
It is a truth , universally acknowledged, that the more money you make, the less inclined you are to tell people how you made it. Continue reading
Abbey Road Studios – WOW!
I’ve never been anywhere in Britain that so caught the zeitgeist of our last fifty years than Abbey Road Studios. Continue reading
Posted in Music, pension playpen
Tagged Abbey Road Studios, Hammond, Hammond organ, Organ, Penny Lane, Piano, Steinway, Steinway & Sons
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