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Can CDC offer private school pensions?
The Department of Education has a cunning plan. Put money behind pensions for teachers in state education and ransome private schools and colleges of higher education for higher pension costs. The policy is justified as an end to a tax-payer … Continue reading
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St James Place GAA Chair Statement- a must read
There aren’t many employers or policyholders that SJP run workplace pensions for, but though they are few, they merit a mini-IGC – known as a Governance Advisory Arrangement (GAA). The SJP GAA Chair Statement is an excellent document that … Continue reading
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Are IGCs and Trustees worth it?
The best test of the value of an IGC or an occupational trust board is to imagine how things would work without one. Before 2015, insurers ran workplace pensions for multiple employers using the bald trust of … Continue reading
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Tagged fiduciaries, fiuciary, IGCs, pensions, trustees
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Could pensions yet break state education?
The Teachers’ Pension Scheme is one of only eight guaranteed by the Government; provides additional benefits linked to salary; is inflation-proof to offer teachers a secure retirement; and offers the typical teacher around £7,000 in employer contributions every year. This … Continue reading
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From zero to hero – the Hargreaves Lansdown IGC report
Hargreaves Lansdown’s (HL) 2015 -16 IGC report was embarrassingly bad. I got cross that a successful funds platform didn’t put its back into independent governance. Hargreaves’ Vantage product (now HL Workplace Pension) was at the time being widely promoted as … Continue reading
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Tagged Hargreaves Lansdown, HL, IGC, pensions, Value for Money, VFM
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ReAssuring us through its IGC?
A word on padding The first thing you notice about the ReAssure IGC report is stock images. Page one and two are entirely devoted to them, page three and four have one, page five has five and page six is … Continue reading
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Tagged ESG, IGC, outcomes, pensions, Reassure, Trust Pilot
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Virgin Money’s stakeholder is in special measures – put the IGC in charge.
Sid Vicious didn’t last long at Virgin when the Sex Pistols flirted with the record label. His relationship was as stormy as the Virgin Money’s IGC is with Virgin Money. Things are vicious once again , even if the Pistols … Continue reading
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Tagged IGC, pensions, Sex Pistols, Sid Vicious, Virgin Money, workplace Pensions
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The Government’s pension stealth tax
What are we to make of the disenfranchisement of Stagecoach from rail contracts? I am extremely concerned by this statement , reported in the Financial Times Stagecoach said its recent bids had been non-compliant “principally in respect of pensions risk”. … Continue reading
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Fidelity’s IGC-the bland leading the blind
The general reader is introduced to the 2019 IGC report with a statement from Fidelity An IGC is an Independent Governance Committee whose purpose is to represent the interests of policyholders (including active and deferred members) in the company’s relevant … Continue reading
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Zurich’s IGC – keeping Zurich honest.
Zurich ‘s IGC Chair’s statement is out ; it’s punchy. It’s chair, Anna Bradley has a much wider sphere of influence than just pensions and it shows. This is from her opening remarks …you have told us that service standards … Continue reading
