Category Archives: auto-enrolment
A blog from 2016 – which is as relevant to Nest today as it was 9 years ago
This is a re blog of an account of Nest at one of the first PLSA (rather than NAPF) conferences. If you weren’t in Liverpool for last week’s PLSA conference, do not slit your wrists. You can watch the sessions … Continue reading
Posted in auto-enrolment, pensions
Tagged auto enrolment, Drawdown, ft, josephine cumbo, NEST, Otto Thorsen, PLSA, the Pensins Regulator
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The FCA tell us how far DC “pots” are from being pensions (pt 1)
At 162 slides, the FCA’s Financial Lives survey of the nation’s understanding of private pensions is a phenomenal publication. It’s the document that was mainly researched this time last year from ordinary people, not those put forward by insurers, advisers … Continue reading
CDC for those who want more certainty? We call it “shared ambition”.
The move to CDC looks happily inevitable. I hope that by 2030 most people in workplace pensions will have access to a pension and the amount of certainty from their pension will be dependent on fiduciaries (trustees and personal pension … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, age wage, auto-enrolment, pension playpen, pensions
Tagged AgeWage, Pension Superhave, Pensions, PSH
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Competition will not drive good funded pensions; that’s over.
Waking up to a new pensions world I am sorry to read arguments on social media and in Pension Age lamenting the loss of the competition we have today. The mess of GPPs, single employer DC schemes and the majority … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, auto-enrolment, pension playpen, pensions
Tagged David Brooks, Pensions, Steve Webb
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Is People’s now a “fully agile internal manager” of our savings?
Toby Nangle is a good guy, he comes from the investment community and he’s trying to turn People’s Partnership and other savings organisations into the kind of investment houses that make for happy Chancellors. This report is from Pension Age … Continue reading
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Tagged advice, annuity, Business, Business and Economy, Investment, NEST, Pension new, Pensions, Tax
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DWP latest ; employers will be assessing pensions VFM.
In a move that will surprise up to a million and a half employers , it looks like assessing its chosen workplace pension will become part of the employer’s duties. Answering my question at a session of the PLSA’s 2023 … Continue reading
A pension’s for life…Simon Kew on VFM
Simon Kew appeared on this week’s VFM Podcast which coincided with him starting a new job as head of market engagement at Broadstone and with me bumping into him at an industry event. Simon has been the stalwart of the … Continue reading
All quiet on the dashboard front? Don’t be so sure
Supply Richard Smith and I spent over an hour talking and answering questions about the pensions dashboard to a large group of pension specialists working in the public sector. The event was hosted by EY and organized through the CIPP. … Continue reading
Posted in auto-enrolment, Dashboard, pensions
Tagged CIPP, Dashboard, EY, Pensions, public sector, Richard Smith
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Pensions Evri-where? A Smart solution that’s got a way to go!
We know them as Hermes, they like us to know them as Evri – (as in Evri-where) and the courier firm has done a deal with 12,000 of its 30,000 couriers granting them “self-employed +” status. Yesterday, the 12,000 couriers … Continue reading
“My pension stole my benefits!”
Gareth Morgan has , until now, been a lone voice, howling at the moon on the plight of the low paid faced with decisions on how to spend their pension pot. “Until now” means that he is now joined by … Continue reading
Posted in annuity, auto-enrolment
Tagged annuity, Guidance, Pension Credit, Universal Credit
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