Monthly Archives: May 2016
Pensions Bill – read all about it
This post is taken from the DWP’s briefing notes on what we can expect. Since publication, Ros Altmann, the Pensions Minister has confirmed to the FT (and by RT to Pension Plowman and Jo Cumbo) that the measures relating to … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, Employment, Financial services, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, Pension Bill, pensions, Retirement
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Is automatic-enrolment about to become a pension issue?!
Business software is not glamorous; writing about the goings on of the annual BASDA conference was going to be a challenge, especially with a sexy pension dashboard conference happening concurrently. So I’m pleased to bring a good news story to your … Continue reading
Posted in auto-enrolment, pensions, social media
Tagged auto enrolment, BASDA, Bond, DWP, Government, Inuity, pensions, Qtac, Retirement, Sage, software, Xero
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Till we know the “money” – shut up about “value”.
I had a number of meeting yesterday culminating in an afternoon spent with members of the Transparency Task Force (TTF), with the FCA and with certain interested observers. I can report the meeting happened and what was said but … Continue reading
Posted in Management, Pension Freedoms, pensions, Pensions Regulator
Tagged Asset management, assets, Business, charges, costs, Money, Pay, value, Value for Money
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Governance rides a horse called transparency!
My day today is dominated by meetings about governance. I’ll be meeting organisations who want to provide benchmarks for governance, an organisation charged with overseeing the pension pots of millions of us and a regulator who kicked off the shift … Continue reading
Posted in governance, pensions
Tagged Business, Employment, Financial services, governance, pension, pensions, Retirement, Transparency, trasnparency taskforce, TTF
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If England to itself do rest but true
This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in … Continue reading
Confusing messaging on workplace pensions
Tom McPhail – the Stone Roses’ new vocalist? To the melodious backing of the Stone Roses’ “All for one“, Tom McPhail can be heard on radio today warning the world about small master trusts that could go wrong. “All for … Continue reading
Posted in auto-enrolment, pensions
Tagged auto enrolment, auto-enrolement, National Employment Savings Trust, NEST, pensions, Retirement, Workie
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Putting yourself second – what a boss should do.
There is no law that says you should be polite. Standing aside from someone getting off a train, opening doors for the elderly and those with push-chairs, paying your pension bills before paying your dividend, these are all things we … Continue reading
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Tagged BHS, Frank Field, justice, law, Pensions Regulator, Philip Green
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The time for cost transparency is now – guest blog from Stewart Bevan
The topic of transparency of costs and charges refuses to go away. Significant costs are still not being disclosed fully to asset owners who often have no idea of their potential impact. I recently heard a discussion about … Continue reading
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Tagged BHS, Blog, charges, costs, KAS Bank, pensions, Stewart Bevan, Transparency
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AE – State of the Nation – thoughts from Accountex
Two days conducting over 300 conversations with accountants , payroll experts and a pension providers has put me in reflexive (and recumbent!) mood!. I may only have spoken to 1 in 10 of the people who passed the Pension … Continue reading
Can an incentive be more effective than compulsion? Guest blog from Ralph Frank
The Individual Savings Account (“ISA”) seems to be the savings vehicle of choice of the current Chancellor. There were two types of ISA, cash and stocks & shares, when the Chancellor took office back in 2010. The maximum subscription … Continue reading