Monthly Archives: April 2019
Tiger Roll – a once in a lifetime sporting moment!
Tiger Roll wins the Randox Health Grand National! Back-to-back Grand Nationals and a place in history pic.twitter.com/vcF6v9JEOL — ITV Racing (@itvracing) April 6, 2019 Last year, my partner and I went to Aintree to see a horse called Tiger Roll … Continue reading
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L&G’s IGC returns to form
The L&G IGC Chair report for 2019 and can be accessed from this link from it’s much improved IGC web-page. Last year I though L&G produced a real stinker of a report and said so. L&G have my … Continue reading
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Collaboration – not confrontation; the FCA and whistleblowing
The issue of whistleblowing was a theme of a Money Marketing conference I was involved in during the week. Debbie Gupta used her platform as FCA keynote speaker to call on IFAs to raise the standards of their profession by … Continue reading
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Aegon IGC report – assured, risk-free and pointless.
The Aegon IGC report is published and available here. It’s normal for IGCs to have at least five members , I was very sad to hear of Linda Woodall’s death during the year, shew was a consumer champion at the … Continue reading
No dash in the dashboard
The DWP has published it’s dashboard consultation response and the question is “what’s new “. The short answer is “not much”. Though we now have a picture of multiple commercial dashboards in 2019, they will still be dependent on a … Continue reading
Practicing what you preach
I’m a fan of the PMI. My firm is a member and the PMI are a force for good, helping generations of pensions people to raise their game and do their jobs better. I got a lot out of its … Continue reading
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CDC – a silver wage not a silver bullet
Yesterday Ros (Baroness) Altmann hosted a webinar on retirement income which prompted some interesting follow up on social media. Here’s Mark Ormston of Retirement Line. I thoroughly enjoyed listening to Ros Altmann on the ‘future of retirement income’ masterclass … Continue reading
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Scottish Widows IGC report – a most interesting read.
The Scottish Widows 2019 IGC report has been published and is available here In the past few years, Scottish Widows has moved from a quiet backwater in the tidal flow of Lloyds Banking Group to very much centre stream. I … Continue reading
Millions start to properly fund their pension
http://www.seedrs.com/agewage April 1st 2019 is a red letter day for millions of Brits auto-enrolled into workplace pensions. From today the contribution rates will at last be 3+4+1 (three from your boss, four from you and one from the Government – … Continue reading