Monthly Archives: July 2014
Ros Altmann to be the over 50s
News from the Sunday Times via @paullewismoney reports that Ros Altmann is to be our (eg those over 50) new work tsar. This I take to be good news. Ros Altmann to be named Government's champion for older workers … Continue reading
Posted in auto-enrolment, Blogging, club pension, pension playpen, pensions, welfare
Tagged Back to work, BBC, Collective DC, DB pensions, Paul Lewis, pensions, Ros Altmann
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“The Pitch” – X-factor for start-ups!
“The Pitch” – X-factor for start-ups! | AccountingWEB http://ow.ly/yXSLk
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Pension Salary sacrifice – is it worth i
Pension Salary sacrifice – is it worth it? | AccountingWEB http://ow.ly/yUVS4
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Who’ll be left holding the Auto-Enrolme
Who’ll be left holding the Auto-Enrolment hot potato? | AccountingWEB http://ow.ly/yUWh9
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Providers cherry picking pension customers? Whatever next!
Money Marketing is reporting that insurers are cherry picking the workplace pensions they take on . That this is news says a lot for the appalling lack of underwriting applied by insurers to the pricing of new business in this market over … Continue reading
The internet of pensions
A group of teccies have come together to make the internet of things happen. This is from their press release The Open Interconnect Consortium (OIC) is focused on defining a common communications framework based on industry standard technologies to wirelessly connect … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, corporate governance, dc pensions, Employment, Financial services, internet, internet of things, Pension new, pensions, Retirement, things
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Carry on nudging!
We may just have been nudged. We’ve been getting interested in salary sacrifice. We have been building a salary sacrifice modeller into the workforce assessment tool on http://www.pensionplaypen.com by popular demand. Initially I had thought salary sacrifice was benefiting employers but … Continue reading
A week on the river
This is a photoblog of our five days aboard Lady Lucy for Henley 2014. If you have any photos when you were with us or took photos (like Alex O’Loughlin) from the bank- please send them in. Henley Royal … Continue reading
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Tagged boating, Facebook, Henley, Henley Royal Regatta, HRR, lady lucy, pension playpen, Retirement
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Pension PlayPen overall winner at IMAIA 2014!
We do “new”, not because old is wrong but because new is where the future is. So we entered the IMAIA this year at the behest of our friend and mentor Jenny Davidson, the new Reward Director at Talk … Continue reading
Posted in brand, Cruise boats, customer service, de-risking, gloriana, henley, Henry Tapper blog, pension playpen
Tagged Awards, Business, Employment, Financial services, Government, IMAIA, IMAIA14, Marketing, Pension new, pension playpen, pensions, Retirement, twitter
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Pension PlayPen- Britain’s most innovative pension consultancy
Dawid Konotey-Ahulu mailed me yesterday to tell me we’d been named Engaged Investor’s most innovative pension consultancy. It’s a mark of Dawid’s genorosity that he thought to contact me, even though the firm he started Redington had (along with … Continue reading