Monthly Archives: March 2020
A radically simple solution to dashboard delivery.
Pension Bee has produced two important papers in the past week. The first is its response to the FCA’s call for input on Open Finance The second is yesterday’s public call to action to bring open pensions as part of … Continue reading
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Tagged AgeWage, AgeWage Pension Bee, DWP, FCA, open finance, Open Financee initiative, open pensions, Pension Bee, pensions
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Lighthouse, the unions and BSPS
There is a story untold about Lighthouse’s relationship with the BSPS trade unions. It is one that reveals some alarming conflicts within the Union movement, specifically in the “affinity agreements” that gave union members access to free advice This clear … Continue reading
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From helping your clients to helping yourself.
The severity of the falls in stock market put in jeopardy the revenues of asset based businesses. Put simply, if the markets fall 50%, so do revenues. What were profitable business models become unprofitable and sooner or later costs catch … Continue reading
Posted in Consolation, coronavirus, pensions
Tagged Business, clients, costs, Plan, Plan B
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Pension Bee talks, LGIM listens
The Guardian announces this morning that Pension Bee’s campaign to get access to an LGIM fund that divests from companies profiting from fossil fuels. Getting the mighty LGIM. Britain’s biggest fund manager, to respond to customer pressure is no mean … Continue reading
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Tagged #pensions, Business, dc pensions, Financial services, Government, LGIM, Pension Bee, Pensions
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Creating step-by-step guides for questions that are keeping a nation awake
“In the gloom, the gold gathers the light about it” – here’s some gold. Darshan Sanghrajka runs SuperBeingLabs which is an agency which promotes good things (like curing illnesses). Here’s his idea. I’ve made a list of questions keeping people … Continue reading
“Default” funds are “house” funds.
Richard Butcher commented at PLSA invest that he didn’t understand why we used the word “default” to describe the fund that is used by 90% of scheme savers. He’s right – “default” is not a way to describe something you … Continue reading
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Momento Mori – the consolation of religion
I am finding that reminding people that they’re going to die does not go down well on twitter. “You are going to die” is somewhat extreme, Henry. It’s not accurate and really not helpful. Not at all #coronavirus #COVID19 — … Continue reading
Coronavirus – 5 reasons to stay calm
80% of us will get it- you are not alone
Yes , this virus is going to cost you, but not enough to make you ill
If you get it now – lucky you.
If you get it later, it won’t seem so weird.
One day you’ll die, this is a wake up call . Continue reading
An inside track on Coronavirus.
Our #FlattenTheCurve graphic is now up on @Wikipedia with proper attribution & a CC-BY-SA licence. Please share far & wide and translate it into any language you can! Details in the thread below. #Covid_19 #COVID2019 #COVID19 #coronavirus Thanks to … Continue reading
Invest to change the world! #plsainvest20
Investment has a PR problem. We do not aspire to be investors (no matter what Sid said). Indeed we (as in those who don’t normally go to investment conferences) think investment people arrogant, aloof and often downright crooked. A … Continue reading