Monthly Archives: July 2018
The trouble with experts
All week long my twitter feed has been troubled by experts. It’s like the hot weather bringing the flies into your home, they bite you all over – they don’t even leave you alone when you sleep, I open up … Continue reading
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Tagged economists, Financial economics, Flies, pensions
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CDC and the Blockchain – 8.45am Weds 25th July. Get your “nuts and bolts” here!
Invitation To Launch & Discussion Of “Smart Ledgers & Collective Defined Contribution Pensions” Report On Wednesday, 25 July, 08:45 to 10:45. Long Finance’s Distributed Futures research programme has produced a report entitled “Smart Ledgers & Collective Defined Contribution Pensions”, the … Continue reading
Ros Altmann’s right about dashboards.
It’s good to see Ros Altmann contributing to the debate on the pension dashboard – it’s particularly good that she chose to do so on this blog. (comments). For those who don’t press links – here’s what she has to … Continue reading
Don’t let the bullies grind you down
Talks between the Friends of CDC and the Financial Scientologists broke down last night in merriment. Actually, you are just flat out wrong. But you have a good sense of humor about it. — Jeffrey Brown (@IlliniBizDean) July 21, 2018 There … Continue reading
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Tagged CDC, collective, DB, Financial economics, fractional scamming, open, pension, pensions, Scheme
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Isn’t the “dashboard” already obsolete?
If you follow pension news stories, you’ll know that the Work and Pensions Secretary has been anything but enthusiastic about her department’s commitment to produce a pension dashboard by 2019. The Government first proposed it could it help in 2016 … Continue reading
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Tagged Dashboard, DWP, pension, Pension Dashboard, pensions, TPR
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Can “for profit” prosper? Yes – but we need dashboards that profit us all.
There is a strong tradition in this country of delivering services through “not for profit” organisations. Such organisations have been self-sustainable because of the endowments or trust funds that support their management. The most obvious manifestation of the not for … Continue reading
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Tagged ABI, Compare the Market, Dashboard, Go Compare, Mneysupermarket, Pension Dashboard, SIPP
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What have we to lose from CDC?
This article was first published in Professional Pensions. Machiavelli’s commented that “there is nothing more difficult to carry out nor more doubtful of success nor more dangerous to handle than to initiate a new order of things”. For the DWP … Continue reading
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The Financial Scientologists
Paul Lewis is absolutely right in attacking the dogmatism that religion creates. People may be spiritual, without imposing their views on others, but when someone’s dogma overtakes their sense of humanity, they become strangely inhuman. This is what accounts … Continue reading
Posted in actuaries, Bankers, pensions
Tagged Infrastructure, John Ralfe, Malvolio, Paul Lewis, pensions, Scientology, USS
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CMA investment probe shock; the big three breathe again!
It shows the distance between the consumer and the investment consultant that all but a handful of readers will know what this headline refers to. To the general public, the Competition and Markets Authority’s probe into the opaque world of … Continue reading
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Tagged Aon, CMA, Consultants, Investment, Mercer, pensions, WTW
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Dashboard – heads or tails?
Britain will get pension dashboards, whether from the Government or from the private sector – heads or tails the public will win. I am in the minority and have been since the DWP took over the dashboard from … Continue reading