Monthly Archives: February 2015

What can Westminster learn from auto-enrolment?

    SILOS The Pension Manager of GEC told me a great story about reward. At one time, GEC was so huge that individual companies within it would compete against each other for large contracts. Some sales teams would receive … Continue reading

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“what should tell the staff?” Pension PlayPen Lunch today!

  Every first business Monday of the month, the Pension Play Pen Linked In group meet in the Partners Room of the Counting House in Cornhill to discuss pressing issues of the day. True to form, we meet today (Monday … Continue reading

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The enormous importance of Legal and General

  If one insurer has done more than any other for workplace pensions it is Legal & General. For early stagers like Marks & Spencer they opened a master trust , they were the first insurer to adopt clean 50bps … Continue reading

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Payroll – the new paymasters?

It is a truth universally to be acknowledged that the man who bills the client is likeliest to get rich. We have got used to insurance companies and advisers controlling the price of our pension savings schemes. But  by April … Continue reading

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