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Monthly Archives: May 2016
The importance of ….space…..
Especially if you’re that fat fingered! Best wishes from the penison plowman.
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True Potential for a good IGC report.
A little tardy (but not as tardy as fellow auto-enrolment SIPP, Intelligent money, True Potential has produced its IGC report, you can read it here. You would have to be good at web navigation and persevering, to find it. I … Continue reading
Posted in governance, IGC, pensions
Tagged Brian Shearing, Business, Financial services, IGC, Impulse Save, pension playpen, pensions, Retirement, SIPP, true potential, workplace pension
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Has a robot changed advice for ever?
Below are the questions I’ve been asked to address next month at the Pension and Benefit Conference. I hope that when robots go to grammar school, they’ll be able to do a little better framing the question! The framing of the … Continue reading
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Tagged advice, Business, Cameron, Cost, IFA, pensions, robo-advice, Transparency
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Shutting the stable door?
We probably know more about the solvency of our defined benefit pension schemes than we have ever done. They are subject to rigorous examination by Experian who stress test them for failure to calculate their levy to the Pension … Continue reading
Look before you leap – in all things!
The man on the boundary I had a very relaxed conversation with a fund manager on the boundary yesterday. The chap I was talking to was a fund manager , conversation turned to the fixed costs of the fund – … Continue reading
Face to face with a man who changed the world
his website looks like he hasn’t come across social media yetThe man in the blue suit is Bernard Rhodes, who delivered a spell-binding monologue for nearly three hours last night at the British Library. Bernard Rhodes If you don’t know … Continue reading
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Tagged #punk40, Bernard Rhodes, British Library, music, punk, The Clash, The Sex Pistols
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Who is the master? Who can be trusted? Guest blog from Ralph Frank
There has been increasing clamour in recent times for more stringent regulation of Master Trusts. The Government has duly obliged, tacking a Pensions Bill onto the Queen’s Speech. The details of the Bill are currently light, although it is … Continue reading
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Tagged auto enrolment, Business, dc, Fiduciary, master trust, pensions, regulation
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A tale of two failures. (BHS and Tata Steel)
BHS and Tata Steel; they have a lot in common BHS is a failed retailer, a tired brand with 11,000 employees and a medium sized pension scheme with a hole in it. Tata Steel is a failed steelmaker, an iconic business … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Haldane, BHS, Brexit, Consultation, David Cameron, DWP, June 23rd, pension, pensions, Philip Green, Tata steel, The Pension Regulator
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A Faustian Pact that could hurt us all
In a potentially disastrous development to the negotiations around British Steel’s pension benefits, the Government is considering allowing the rights of British Steel workers (including those drawing their pensions) – to be cut. There is no precedent for this. Pensions … Continue reading
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Tagged BHS, Business, Dr Faustus, Employment, Fausian Pact, Kit Marlowe, pension, Pension Protection Fund, pensions, ppf, Retirement, Tata steel
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The “troubled” generation
It’s not my phrase, infact it’s TPAS’ Michelle Cracknell’s phrase but I guess it applies to me. I’m 54 and according to everything I’ve been told for the past 30 years, it should be time to retire. I am … Continue reading
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Tagged CDC, Drawdown, Employment, Financial services, IFA, Michelle Cracknell, pension, pension playpen, pensions, Pensions Wise, Retire, Retirement, TPAS, Wealth
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