Category Archives: accountants
“I’m pretty sure my client has a pension issue..”
This is as close as I can get to a verbatim conversation I had on the phone with the head of a small practice of accountants yesterday-it is edited to concentrate on the core issue she had – what … Continue reading
The new Mastertrust Assurance Framework (MAF)
Amidst the deluge of new consultations, the joint consultation on the Mastertrust Governance has been pretty well lost to sight. Published last week it can be found here. It’s the work of a group of accountants (organised by the ICAEW) … Continue reading
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Tagged Auditor, Business, Employment, Financial services, Good governance, governance, Government, MAF, Mastertrust, MAstertrust Assurance Framework, National Employment Savings Trust, NEST, pension, pensions, Practitioner, Public Sector Pensions, Retirement
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Leadership needed to deliver the Budget’s pension promises
I’m off this morning to meet the FCA, hear about the detail on the Budget’s proposals on the New Annuity Guidance Framework and have a chance to deliver my tuppence worth on what should happen. This week my mind has … Continue reading
Posted in accountants, actuaries, advice gap, auto-enrolment
Tagged annuity, AnnuityFramework, FCA, Guidance, Guidance Framework, New
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Why employers cannot be “provider agnostic” about their workplace pension.
At http://www.pensionplaypen.com, we are horrified by the slapdash way in which employers are choosing workplace pensions and the complacency of their advisers who seem solely intent on selling payroll and HR middleware. Continue reading
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Tagged Business, corporate governance, DWP, FCA, Investment management, joined-up regulation, pensions, Politics, regulation, Retirement, TPR, workplace
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How we see the new annuity framework working
Pension PlayPen response to the Treasury Paper “Freedom and choice in pensions.” Pension PlayPen Ltd trades as http://www.pensionplaypen.com and is a leading portal through which employers and their advisers access information establish workplace pensions. This response has been … Continue reading
Posted in accountants, actuaries, advice gap, annuity, auto-enrolment, Payroll, pension playpen, pensions, Public sector pensions
Tagged annuity, Budget 2014, Business, Command Paper, Defined benefit pension plan, DWP, Employment, Financial services, Freedom and choice in pensions, Government, Insurance, reform, Treasury
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“Agency has its advantages”; using Pension PlayPen with your clients
What’s this all about? In 2014, Pension PlayPen wants to build a network of 1000 agents – people and organisations wanting to use our Choose A Pension Service to help their clients get a good workplace pension in advance of … Continue reading
Posted in accountants, advice gap, dc pensions, pension playpen, pensions
Tagged Agency, DWP, pension playpen
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It’s a phoney war- what’s happening on the other side of the Channel?
I am still surprised how people are organising themselves to do their jobs. You’d have thought that the accountants and book-keepers who provide financial stability, get people paid and manage the tax affairs of Britain’s 1.25m employers would be the … Continue reading
Research shock- employers do care about the pensions they provide their staff
“Selecting the right pension scheme for auto enrolment is important and has long term implications for employees. Taking time to review the options that are available in the market is sensible and planning ahead will help to keep stress levels … Continue reading
Tomorrow’s heroes; these are the folk who will solve the AE Capacity crunch
We’ve been doing some planning at Pension PlayPen towers . Most of our thinking is concentrated on this graph. We predict the capacity crunch at April 2015 which is the point when demand for auto-enrolment services and workplace pensions … Continue reading
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Tagged accountants, Accountantweb, AccountingWEB, auto enrolment, auto-enrolement, auto-enrolment.DWP.Paul Johnson, Bristol, Business, dc pensions, Employment, Government, Leeds, Payroll, pension, Pension new, pension playpen, pensions
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