Monthly Archives: November 2018
“Would you pay a social care premium?”
This was the question Radio Five Live’s Wake up to Money asked its audience this Monday morning. 2.5% off wages for the prospect of insurance against things going really wrong with your health in later life? The idea is being trailed … Continue reading
A day to remember #Armistice100
It is 100 years since the Great War ended. It is a Sunday and my church will start the morning service 15 minutes only so we can stand in silence together and remember. There is nothing good to remember about … Continue reading
Find out what AgeWage is about.
Register here AgeWage is a new venture established by Chris Sier and Henry Tapper. We are in the process of raising a substantial amount of capital to create a business which we expect to change the way people understand their retirement … Continue reading
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More fun and games in the crazy world of pension transfers
It didn’t take long for the ripples from the Lloyds Bank GMP equalisation ruling to reach the crazy land of pension transfers. Within a few days of the Judge Morgan’s verdict we hear that thousands of people are having their pension transfers delayed … Continue reading
GMP equalisation – accounting issues – First Actuarial – webinar invite!
First Actuarial are able to explain this GMP equalisation thing and the implications for pension (and company) accounting. Having done a webinar or two with “Sam and Jingoe”- I’d say this will be time well spent! Here’s your invite! Our … Continue reading
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Tagged accountants, Accounting, first actuarial, GMP equalisation, LBG, pensions, Webinar
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First Actuarial celebrates its special day
Once a year, everyone at First Actuarial comes together in one place to work and play for a day. This is the day. Most of us choose where we want to work and if we don’t like it, we go … Continue reading
A good week for transparency
It’s been a good week for transparency, with the FCA’s publication of the IDWG’s final report. Chris Sier and his team have created the opportunity for investors to properly understand the total cost of intermediation when buying assets through a … Continue reading
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Tagged chris sier, CTI, pensions, Value for Money
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The CDC Consultation – a step towards sanity!
That we have a consultation on CDC is something of a wonder. Almost a year ago to the day I asked Steve Webb in front of a roomful of my colleagues what chance we had of seeing CDC achieved in … Continue reading
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Dashboard-smashboard ; we’re done with you!
The Pension Play Pen met this lunchtime and we’ve decided to ban the word dashboard from our lexicon of pension bull. “Dashboard” is old hat lingo – implying a steering wheel and all kinds of stuff that people aren’t ready … Continue reading
Pension ages are equal – but some pensions are more equal than others!
A strange kind of pension equality Women are planning to work ten years longer than they’d originally supposed according to a Dunstan Thomas survey. “Austerity in Action” – Adrian Boulding calls it. Women don’t just seem less pensioned , … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrian Boulding, Equality, Pension Inequality, pensions, Ros Altmann
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