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Category Archives: accountants
If you see bad advice – say something!
I was very pleased to read Natalie Holt’s article in Money Marketing, we need a better way to deal with bad advice. It deals with public perceptions of financial advisers and is uncompromising. The reality of advice is lost … Continue reading
Posted in accountants, actuaries, advice gap, pensions
Tagged advice, FCA, FSCS, IFA, Membership, self-regulation
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Tata puts pensions first
Though the details of Tata’s offer to the members of the British Steel Pension Scheme (BSPS) are only sketchy , it is clear that they are focussed on members getting “PPF+” on existing benefits and a defined benefit pension … Continue reading
Posted in accountants, actuaries, pensions
Tagged British Steel, BSPS, John Ralfe, pensions, ppf, RAA, Steel, tata, TPR
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We do not need another consultation on costs and charges.
A report in Professional Pensions that we are to get yet another consultation on costs and charges fill me with gloom. As the report points out, we have two consultations on the subject – in progress. They follow an exhaustive call … Continue reading
Posted in accountants, actuaries, advice gap, auto-enrolment, pensions
Tagged charges, costs, FCA, hidden charges, pension, pensions, TPR, Transaction costs
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“Famine or feast pensions”- demand advice is better spread.
Where you work not how you work determines your pension prospects. If you choose to work for a blue chip company or for the Government you can expect at worst a high contribution to a workplace pension and at best a … Continue reading
Posted in accountants, actuaries, advice gap, auto-enrolment, pensions
Tagged advice, auto enrolment, consultancy, DB, dc, DWP, famine, feast, Pension Schemes Bill, pensions, regulation, workplace pensins
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How can payroll bureaux profit from auto-enrolment?
I’ve recently been asked by the leading payroll trade publication to answer some questions. I’ve enjoyed thinking about them and have set out my answers below. I’m not a payroll manager and I don’t run a bureau – I’m not … Continue reading
Posted in accountants, auto-enrolment, Payroll, pensions
Tagged accountant, auto enrolment, book keeper, Payroll World, pension, Technology, Workie, workplace pension
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Plugging phoney deficits does no good!
We have become fixated with phoney pension deficits, now a British pension consultancy is suggesting we can plug phoney deficits with real money, the dividends that support “other people’s pensions. This is what we think of the phoney deficits. Our … Continue reading
Pensions and the “Olympic bounce”.
Remember what it was like in the first half of 2012 – Britain was fed up and just as “austerity” was biting, we had the Olympics! We couldn’t afford it, it was a pre financial crisis, it would be disruptive, … Continue reading
Transfer values – Con Keating sees a comedy of errors!
This blog is from the pen of Con Keating There has been a spate of requests for quotations of transfer values from DB schemes and much publicity given to some of the more public figures who have taken … Continue reading
Posted in accountants, pensions
Tagged CETV, commutatoin, conract, Discount rate, tax free cash, transfers
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The Alice in Wonderland world of pension deficits.
FTSE grows, deficits up? The first business day of the month is pension horror month where JLT announce new angles on the disastrous state of our Defined Benefit schemes. Deficits actually fell last month but JLT still managed to report … Continue reading
Posted in accountants, actuaries, pensions
Tagged 7800, Alice in wonderland, Deficits, Fab Index, FABI, IAS 19, Malice in wonderland, Pension deficits, pensions, ppf
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The peril of pensions (a quiet word in payroll’s ear).
Anyone who manages payroll, whether in-house or as an outsourcer, will by now have discovered the perils of auto-enrolment. This article will not rehearse the process issues (you’ll be relieved to know). But with auto-enrolment come workplace pensions. Currently the majority … Continue reading
Posted in accountants, advice gap, auto-enrolment, pensions
Tagged accountant, auto enrolment, DWP, NEST, Payroll, pension, The Pensions Regulator, TPR, Workie, workplace pension
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