Agethangelou

McPhail

Kew

Please join us for our next online Coffee Morning on Tuesday 26th August.

At our Pensions Commission relaunch event on August 5th, we heard the thoughts of those at Pension PlayPen have been delivered by Bryn Davies, Arun Muralidhar and Margaret Snowdon

You can readPension Commission Relaunch Discussion

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The second round table

Andy Agathangelou will be Chairing another round table with Tom McPhail and Simon Kew.

Collectively Pension Playpen would like to submit our thoughts that will be in line with the majority of our members (you)!

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A word from Steve Goddard and the team

We need to discuss high level content and ideas including:

• The triple lock; it has been hugely beneficial in improving the value of the state pension but it can’t go on and the political parties are trapped in a game of electoral chicken where no one can be the first to admit they’d change it. It needs a commission to give them..someone…anyone the air cover to make changes

• Pension tax relief. Same story; politically very difficult but it is an archaic system that makes very little sense in a post auto-enrolment world and it costs £70 billion a year. Anyone remember MIRAS?

• Public sector pensions. Now too far out of kilter with private sector pensions and also costing the government £50 billion a year; they are the cause of the most egregious inequality in our whole pension system. Others may disagree…

• The regulatory architecture of pensions. It makes no sense to have two different regulators, employing thousand and costing millions, both regulating defined contribution pensions.

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Should they be merged?

• Is 2027 too late?
• Self employed need help now !!
• Pension certainty in retirement (SELFIEs maybe)

Andy, Tom and Simon (who has worked with Baroness Drake) can all be regarded as industry “guru’s” and are all appearing on a round table.

We hope you can join us

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