Monthly Archives: May 2016
Accountex 2016 – are you there?
This is my fourth year going to Accountex. It’s a trade show, not a conference, most people who go are running their own businesses and are looking for ways to run those businesses better. This is in marked contrast to … Continue reading
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Tagged #Acountex, Accountex, Accountex16, auto enrolment, Aviva, mydecks, mypaye, pension playpen, pensions
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Accountex 2016 -Pension PlayPen
We will be at Accountex 2016, sharing a stand with our friends from MyPaye and Eledecks. No coffee, no prizes and no gimmicks, come and visit for us about how you can take the pension risk out of auto-enrolments … Continue reading
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Tagged #Acccountex, Accountex, Accountex 16, accountex 2016, Accountex16, pension playpen, pensions
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Fuel, effeciency and our pensions!
Yesterday , Legal and General Investment Management ran a seminar in the City at which asset owners (pension trustees) and asset managers (LGIM) discussed harnessing the new technologies that give us everything from Tesler Cars to Hive and … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, children, Environment, ESG, HSBC, IGC, Paul Trickett, pensions, perforrmance, planet
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A Regulator that can look after herself
My favourite moment from an afternoon spent watching Parliament TV’s absorbing proceedings was when Lesley Titcomb, Pension Regulator turned to the Chair of the DWP Select Committee and smiled “If I need more powers, I know exactly how to … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, Lesley Titcomb, pension, pensions, ppf, Retirement, Ros Altmann, The Pensions Regulator
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Learning to live from what’s in the (pension) pot
Today’s the red letter day for the Pension Regulator (and to a lesser extent- the Pension Protection Fund) , when they find themselves under the scrutiny of the DWP Select Committee. In question is the competence and capability of both … Continue reading
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Tagged CDC, Pension Protection Fund, risk sharing, target pension, The Pension Regulator, TPR, UNISON, Unite
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Altmann standing up for Pensions
I read this account of the Pension Minister’s rebuff to Lord Myners with some pride. Well done on Ollie Smith of Citywire for picking up on it. What Ros Altmann was saying is crucially important. The Pensions Regulator is there to … Continue reading
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Tagged Lesley Titcombe, Lord Myners, Myners, pensions, Philip Green, Ros Altmann, The Pensions Regulator, TPR, yacht
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It’s a lot harder than that – Mr Bee!
Pensions are hard – you cannot disrupt them into being easy I’ve been accused of not taking pensions seriously, Hugh Pym, then the BBC’s chief economics correspondent, smiled indulgently and reminded me that the BBC couldn’t mention an organisation called Pension PlayPen … Continue reading
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Tagged auto enrolment, Disruption, DWP, employers, Michael Johnson, pensions, Pensions Guru, steve bee
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Secondary annuities- more questions than answers
I’ve been asked for my views on secondary annuities. I asked myself would I trade my annuity. Of course, I wouldn’t, I wouldn’t buy one. I wouldn’t sell my state pension, I wouldn’t sell my rights to my defined … Continue reading
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Tagged annuity, Buing, Business, Cash, Financial services, Paul Lewis, pension, pensions, Retirement, secondary annuity, selling
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Gain today- pain tomorrow; Ralph Frank on Freedom and Choice
There is a remarkable consistency across each of the policy measures being enacted under the ‘freedom and choice’ banner. The estimated impact of each measure on the Exchequer serves to accelerate the payment of income tax on the … Continue reading
Partying without John (a tribute to John Broker)
John Broker died last week from a freak accident that cut short a blessed life. John was not only a very good business man but a great partygoer, indeed he could create a party by simply being in the … Continue reading
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