Category Archives: brand
Public transport – I mean PUBLIC transport! – guest blog from Jayson Dudley.
Another trip to back from Paris today and I’m no longer surprised at the lack of awareness people have when using their mobile phones, so let me recount a couple of stories from my early days in Information Security … Continue reading
Posted in brand, pensions
Tagged cyber-crime, Data, Funny, IT security, Jayson Dudley, Mazars, Public Transport
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Room 101 for BT Fon
Join me if you would like the appallingly intrusive BT Fon service banished to room 101. The ridiculous pay as you go service is like the unwanted guest who turns up uninvited at your every event. BT Fon sits on … Continue reading
Grown up brands
How does a brand develop gravitas? Almost all internet start-ups set out to disrupt and this disruption starts with the brand. From the fore-runner Egg to the much advertised Nutmeg, we are asked to think of the brand as something … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, brand, pensions
Tagged Brand, brand reputation, brand value, Business, dc pensions, first actuarial, pension, Pension new, pension playpen, pensions, Retirement
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Après-midi with the Bermondsey Bee – some thoughts on advice
I spent some leisure time yesterday afternoon with Steve Bee in and around the Bermondsey St Debtor’s Prison in which Jargon Free has its offices. I am 10 years younger than Steve and for many years have seen him as … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, brand, pension playpen, pensions
Tagged advice, Citizens Advice, Collective Pensions, Guidance, jargon free, pensions, steve bee
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The best practice approach to choosing a workplace pension
The Pension PlayPen has been asked to outline the research process that lies behind the Factsheets and provider ratings on http://www.pensionplaypen.com . This is the process. The purpose of Pension PlayPen research is To establish the universe of … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, auto-enrolment, brand, pension playpen, pensions, Pensions Regulator
Tagged annuity, auto enrolment, Business, choose, Choose a Pension, corporate governance, corporate risk, dc pensions, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, Pension new, pension playpen, Pension Poverty, Pension Protection Fund, pensions, Society, workplace pension
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Post budget capacity challenge for insurers
Scottish Widows boss Toby Strauss has told the Telegraph that his company is already facing a capacity crunch as it digests the impact of legislative changes over the past two years and faces the challenges of 2015. The … Continue reading
Posted in annuity, auto-enrolment, brand, pensions
Tagged ABI, annuity, Business, dc pensions, Defined benefit pension plan, DWP, Employment, Financial services, first actuarial, pension, Pension new, pension playpen, Retirement, Scottish Widows, Society, Strategy, the Telegraph, toby strauss
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Ros Altmann’s presentation on the merits of employing #olderworkers
14 Jul 14 – Fuller Working Lives: Announcing the new Business Champion for Older Workers. A joint ILC-UK/DWP event hosted by Legal & General from ILC- UK According to Office for National Statistics estimates, in the next 10 years … Continue reading
Posted in accountants, advice gap, brand, pension playpen, pensions
Tagged dc pensions, Government, Insurance, older workers, pension, Retirement, Ros Altmann, social media, Steve Webb
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Providers cherry picking pension customers? Whatever next!
Money Marketing is reporting that insurers are cherry picking the workplace pensions they take on . That this is news says a lot for the appalling lack of underwriting applied by insurers to the pricing of new business in this market over … Continue reading
Pension PlayPen overall winner at IMAIA 2014!
We do “new”, not because old is wrong but because new is where the future is. So we entered the IMAIA this year at the behest of our friend and mentor Jenny Davidson, the new Reward Director at Talk … Continue reading
Posted in brand, Cruise boats, customer service, de-risking, gloriana, henley, Henry Tapper blog, pension playpen
Tagged Awards, Business, Employment, Financial services, Government, IMAIA, IMAIA14, Marketing, Pension new, pension playpen, pensions, Retirement, twitter
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Who will be cleaning out the stables in the next two years?
There are more than 10,000 employers who are running saving schemes for their staff as qualifying workplace pensions. The introduction of minimum standards for these schemes in “Better workplace pensions, further measures for savers“, begs the question – who is going … Continue reading