Monthly Archives: May 2021

How can the FCA and tPR work better together?

This is the final blog relaying my response to tRP’s and the FCA’s call for input on how standardizing the pensions consumer journey can help them improve things for the beleaguered saver. The FCA and TPR have enjoyed an uneasy … Continue reading

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Jab in May then go away – Covid-Arg on the viral state of play

Friday Report: Issue 44    COVID-ARG.COM By: John Roberts, Matt Fletcher, Dan Ryan & Adele Groyer   COVID-19 Actuaries Response Group – Learn. Share. Educate. Influence. COVID-19 is still one of the hottest topics for scientific papers and articles. The … Continue reading

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How can employers choose workplace pensions and promote Money Helper?

TPR and FCA’s call for input on  the pensions consumer journey goes a little off road in it’s eighth  section when it moves on to product decision making and specifically the choices employers make about the workplace pensions for their … Continue reading

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The pensions dashboard needs more urgency

If there is one pension policy initiative that has grabbed popular support, it is the delivery of pension dashboards. In 2018 we nearly lost the dashboard and it took till earlier this year to get legislation in place meaning we … Continue reading

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How can regulators facilitate innovation?

This is the seventh of a series of ten blogs giving my response to the FCA and TPR’s call for input on the pensions consumer journey. In the previous blog in this series, I pointed to the differences between people’s … Continue reading

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Variants of concern – (an actuarial view of the virus today).

                                                           COVID-ARG.COM           By Matt Fletcher  COVID-19 Actuaries Response … Continue reading

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Gender pension gap revealed to be as high as 57% in parts of the UK

  New data from leading online pension provider, PensionBee, reveals that the UK gender pension gap is as high as 57%, depending on savers’ age and regional location. From analysing the data of over 65,000 British consumers, PensionBee has found … Continue reading

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Can data help us monitor and improve pension engagement?

  I have been publishing sections of my long response to the FCA and TPR’s call for input on the pensions consumer journey. We started by looking at the pension consumer journey asking whether simplifying and standardising it made sense … Continue reading

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Can we break down the barriers to our pensions?

In recent blogs I have been responding to the FCA and TPR’s joint call for input on the standarisation of a pensions consumer journey. The journey is broken down into stages – the main stages of the pensions consumer journey … Continue reading

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What do you really think of CDC – go on – tell the RSA!

  The Royal Society of the Arts of which I am a proud member have been keen advocates of CDC for many years.  But rather than listening to the sound of their own voices (and mine), they’ve created a survey … Continue reading

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