Monthly Archives: April 2014
Why employers cannot be “provider agnostic” about their workplace pension.
At http://www.pensionplaypen.com, we are horrified by the slapdash way in which employers are choosing workplace pensions and the complacency of their advisers who seem solely intent on selling payroll and HR middleware. Continue reading
Posted in accountants, advice gap, pensions
Tagged Business, corporate governance, DWP, FCA, Investment management, joined-up regulation, pensions, Politics, regulation, Retirement, TPR, workplace
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How we see the new annuity framework working
Pension PlayPen response to the Treasury Paper “Freedom and choice in pensions.” Pension PlayPen Ltd trades as http://www.pensionplaypen.com and is a leading portal through which employers and their advisers access information establish workplace pensions. This response has been … Continue reading
Posted in accountants, actuaries, advice gap, annuity, auto-enrolment, Payroll, pension playpen, pensions, Public sector pensions
Tagged annuity, Budget 2014, Business, Command Paper, Defined benefit pension plan, DWP, Employment, Financial services, Freedom and choice in pensions, Government, Insurance, reform, Treasury
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Will some employers need their own IGCs?
This blog’s for any employer or adviser with an existing workplace pension scheme (GPP or Stakeholder Pension), where you chose the funds offered to your staff. I asked a question of the Pensions Regulator this week. He’d put … Continue reading
Pension PlayPen response to the DWP Command Paper on Workplace Pensions
Pension PlayPen Ltd trades as http://www.pensionplaypen.com and is the leading portal through which employers access information to stage auto-enrolment. The site allows employers to assess their workforce, determine a contribution structure, apply to workplace pension providers for terms … Continue reading
Posted in auto-enrolment, dc pensions, DWP, FCA, governance, investment, pensions
Tagged Business, Consultation, DWP, Employment, Investment management, Measures, pensions, Retirement, Savers, social media, Steve Webb, Workplae Pensions
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Pension tracking mortgages – a new idea from Josh Collins
This article has been sent me by Josh Collins who describes himself on Linked In as an “Aspiring pensions consultant, interested in improving the UK’s standard of living. Particular interests in: pensions, the care system (child and elderly), the NHS, … Continue reading
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Tagged Idea, Josh Collins, mortgage, pension, University of Bolton
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Beyond compliance…how to integrate your workplace pension into your business
What is your organisation trying to get out of auto-enrolment? The answer will be as diverse as our business strategies! If we had to generalise, we at First Actuarial would chuck all the answers into two buckets; Bucket One is … Continue reading
Posted in pensions
Tagged Business, Financial services, Government, pension, Pension new, pension playpen, pensions
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What to do at Easter?
Easter’s here and while many of us will be well planned , some will have had plans fall through and some- well let’s just say “we’re fluid!”. If you’re fluid and are looking for something to do with yourself/your family … Continue reading
Posted in Lady Lucy
Tagged Bank Hoiliday, boating, Easter, Holiday, lady lucy, social media, Thames, What to do
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“Agency has its advantages”; using Pension PlayPen with your clients
What’s this all about? In 2014, Pension PlayPen wants to build a network of 1000 agents – people and organisations wanting to use our Choose A Pension Service to help their clients get a good workplace pension in advance of … Continue reading
Posted in accountants, advice gap, dc pensions, pension playpen, pensions
Tagged Agency, DWP, pension playpen
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More trust, fewer Trusts please!
Take a look at this table (reproduced with the express permission of the Pension Regulator). It tells us that we have too many private sector trust based DC schemes (it also tells that we don’t know the difference between a GPP and DC … Continue reading
Governance not glumervance
I am for good DC governance but I am not for DC glumervance. Glumervance is “glum governance” as preached by the puritan new model trustee. This is how on trustee firm explained the new measures for savers in the DWP Command Paper “the … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, happiness, pensions
Tagged Employment, Financial services, Glumervance, pension, Pension new, pension playpen, pensions, Professional Trustees, Retirement, Steve Webb, trust, trustees
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