Monthly Archives: January 2019

“Why commercial dashboards?”. Pension PlayPen lunch – Monday Jan 7th

The one thing missing from the dashboard debate so far has been a robust case for a commercial dashboard. At the Pension PlayPen lunch on Monday , I want to have an open and honest debate about how people in … Continue reading

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Will the FCA will ban contingent charging now?

The FCA should release its market wide research on the quality of pension transfer advice. Individuals who have taken out pension transfers, and the decent operators, need to know who is causing the problems and how widespread mis-selling is in … Continue reading

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One for Mum

Although she doesn’t read my blogs, my Mum inspires many of them. On Wednesday she had her second new knee in six months and is now an 86 year old bionic woman. Thanks to the NHS, she has not just … Continue reading

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The fun of crowdfunding

I’m wondering if you’ve used crowdfunding. If you have- then I wonder if you could drop me a line at henry@agewage.com and spare me ten minutes of your experience. It looks likely that AgeWage will be raising quite a lot … Continue reading

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Sleepwalking into a dozy dashboard monopoly.

The Government is minded to tender a single contract to run a pension finder service. This is a regressive strategy which we need to say NO to. Giving control of the pension dashboard’s central piece of architecture to a single … Continue reading

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A happy 2019 to everyone!

  Yesterday – the last day of 2018 – seems to have been one of the most acrimonious. So I’m going to close the book on yesterday and think of today and tomorrow. I’ll take my queue for 2019 from … Continue reading

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