Monthly Archives: August 2020
Have DB pensions dodged the Beeching bullet?
When the Pensions Regulator launched its DB funding consultation earlier in the year, I thought it a “slam dunk”. Back then it was already clear the world was in the grip of a pandemic and the paper presaged what was … Continue reading
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Tagged David Fairs, DB fundin gcode, de-risking, DR Beeching, Funding Code, The Pensions Regulator, TPR
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Taking someone else’s numbers for it. The shortcomings of AoVs.
I suffer from pension dreams, these wake me up at odd hours of the morning with questions that I cannot answer. This morning’s question was put to me by someone who bought a pension savings plan from me when … Continue reading
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Tagged Actuary, advice gap, AoV, Assessment of Value, pension, pensions, Transparency
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Retirement debate overlooks tax-payer funding
This is another article shared with us by Jim Hennington. There is something very simple about the way that Australians debate pensions and I found this article informs very well on the ongoing debate we have in the UK. Clearly … Continue reading
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Tagged Nathanan Bonarius, pensions, purpose, Retirement, Super, Tax
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A user’s guide to AgeWage.com
As regular readers will know, I campaign for better information to be made available to savers about their pension pots and to help people understand their pot, have formed a company, AgeWage. AgeWage.com helps people make sense of their pots … Continue reading
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Tagged AgeWage, annuity, Better Retirement Group, Drawdown, FCA, investment pathways
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Follow Sage Advice and keep an eye out for the Actuary
I will certainly be following Sage Advice and won’t be deserting Actuary on this showing. This race should have been sponsored by the Pensions Regulator. Continue reading
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How regulation suffocated DB pensions (Pt 3) – Clacher and Keating
This is the third of a trilogy chronicling how we’ve messed up our defined benefit pension framework. It brings us from the Pension Act 2004 to date Continue reading
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Beware the colonization of Fin Tech
One of the more unwelcome approaches AgeWage has had was from an insurer just prior to lock-down. “maybe we should have you as one of ours“, the words still make me bristle six months later. Most large insurers have hubs … Continue reading
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Is value for money, the Standard by which we can make sense of pensions?
Although financial advisers do a great job and advice usually provides value for the money it costs, 9 out of 10 British adults will take the key financial decisions about their retirement on their own. The FCA wants unadvised individuals … Continue reading
What MaPS can learn from Australia’s MoneySmart Retirement Planner
The Australian Government has built what it calls the MoneySmart Retirement Planner which is a dashboard tool. You plug in your savings in “Super” and tell the planner a little about yourself (and your partner) and within five minutes you … Continue reading
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Tagged actuaries, advice gap, optimum pensions, pensions, Super
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We need to take people and their pension savings more seriously.
There is a section of the FCA’s rulebook entitled PERG/8/28 which deals with the vexed subject of guidance and advice. . When answering the question “do you give advice?” PERG/8/28 is helpful. The Pension Advisory Service sees advice as “delivering … Continue reading
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