Category Archives: Blogging
Pension scams reported at just £10m a year?
The truth is that the FCA do not have a number for the amount that leaks out of the system through dodgy advice. The resources at their disposal to stop scamming are so small that they cannot even report on the proper size of the problem. Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, age wage, Blogging, pensions
Tagged action fraud, Clive Tildersely, FCA, pensions, scams
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AgeWage and Pension Bee call for Dashboards to tell us what we’re paying for our pensions.
Yesterday the Money and Pensions Service opened a consultation on Pensions Dashboards’ data standards, seeking industry-wide input on the definition and scope of the information dashboards will display. The call for input seeks views on: the personal data items … Continue reading
Simon Carne – ‘I learned to write’
Yesterday, a few hours before I went into my current isolation, I got a mail from Simon Carne. I know I was not alone, this is what my friend Con Keating wrote me Henry I thought this … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, journalism, pensions
Tagged Lou Reed, Natasha North, Shakespeare, Simon Carne, TS Eliot
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“We’re racist , and that’s the way they we like it…”
“We’re racist, and that’s the way we like it” pic.twitter.com/hKRSerVqzb — M (@wolfxmobz1) June 13, 2020 The prequel It’s a sunny June morning, I had just cycled down the embankment from Blackfriars to turn left over Westminster Bridge. As I … Continue reading
All plans off for DB funding proposals
I’m sorry to have missed the FT’s DB funding debate, it sounds like a lively affair! Mercer, the professional services firm, last week estimated the aggregate accounting deficit for DB schemes for the UK’s 350 largest listed companies was £52bn … Continue reading
Posted in actuaries, advice gap, Blogging, dc pensions, de-risking, defined ambition, DWP, pensions
Tagged DB, DB funding, DB pensins, DWP, ft, John Ralfe, SteveWebb, TPR
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Resilience.
A different perspective? The FTSE is on sale…… pic.twitter.com/KcdNv0vTG4 — Holly Mackay (@HollyAMackay) March 9, 2020 I am sure Holly’s graphic shouldn’t be taken as financial advice , though some will try to catch a falling knife. We have no … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, age wage, Blogging, BSPS, Consolation, defined ambition, pensions
Tagged CDC, DB transfers, pensions, Port Talbot
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Let’s play nicely!
This is a most unusual blog as it starts with an apology – an apology to John Ralfe . It is also an apology to any of the people who were offended by my early morning rant at John. … Continue reading
Posted in #WASPI, Blogging, leadership, pensions
Tagged first actuarial, Idiot, John Ralfe, pensions, Ralfebot
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IFAs must explore other advisory models to survive and prosper.
Martin Bamford is precisely the spokesperson financial advisers need. He bridges the gap between the worlds people like me and Clive Waller grew up in, a world where “get rich quick” was the primary driver, to a different one, one … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, Blogging, pensions
Tagged advice, advice gap, Guidance, IFA, pensions
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Is Britain full up?
Reading the Office of National Statistics “National Population Projection“, I’d answer that question “no”. If anything it seems we are not growing as a population as fast as we’d expected. The UK’s population is projected to increase by 3 million … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, age wage, Blogging, pensions
Tagged AgeWage, Brexit, Britain, ONS, Population, predictions, projections
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Scary news day!
Scary news day! Yesterday (Weds 24th) saw the arrival of Boris Blimp in his West End townhouse and the announcement that nothing much has changed at the top of the DWP- except the SOS’ brief – which now includes equality … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, brand, pensions
Tagged DB transfers, pensions, Port Talo, Royal London, Steve Webb
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