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Why Martin Bamford is right to stay an independent financial adviser
SJP – we have been here before Martin Bamford has produced an excellent piece explaining why everyone he knows “loves to hate St James’ Place” . It turns out that quite a few people Martin knows work for St James’ … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, club pension, pensions
Tagged advice, IFA, Martin bamford, St James Place, Wealth
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The Strop Suite – OMG!
We flew overnight to Dubai, missing the GB Entrepreneur Awards, for which Pension Play Pen had been shortlisted. “Dubai is a shit-hole (I want to go home)” Well that’s what I was singing on the bus as we moved from … Continue reading
I’ve just been (pension) geeked!
Yesterday, as you probably weren’t aware, was national pension awareness day. I tried to tell you in my Pension Play Pen weekly announcement but did you engage? I thought not September 15th was decreed so by the Pension Geeks among whom … Continue reading
Posted in club pension, pensions
Tagged Business, Employment, Jonathan Bland, pension, Pension Geeks, Pension new, pension playpen, People's Pension, Ralph Turner, YouTube
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Ros Altmann to be the over 50s
News from the Sunday Times via @paullewismoney reports that Ros Altmann is to be our (eg those over 50) new work tsar. This I take to be good news. Ros Altmann to be named Government's champion for older workers … Continue reading
Posted in auto-enrolment, Blogging, club pension, pension playpen, pensions, welfare
Tagged Back to work, BBC, Collective DC, DB pensions, Paul Lewis, pensions, Ros Altmann
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Government needs to publish its intentions for CDC
The defined ambition agenda is a vague one. Steve Webb talks about wanting to give people more certainty in retirement. He’s talked about DC heavy (to and through investment strategies) and DB lite- exit routes from traditional guaranteed DB structures- … Continue reading
Can we deliver the Guidance Guarantee?
We are all worried about the Guidance Guarantee, the content of what will be delivered and the quality of the delivery. We worry for a variety of reasons but mostly we worry that people will not get what they expected … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, auto-enrolment, club pension, pension playpen, pensions
Tagged FCA, Guidance Framework, Guidance Guarantee, Treasury
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Good with food – not so good with money.
The sad events at the Co-operative Bank this year are not the first financial services scandal to hit the Co-operative movements. Less publicised but no less carnal, was the behaviour of the management of Co-operative Insurance Services (CIS) who were … Continue reading
Posted in auto-enrolment, Bankers, Change, club pension
Tagged Business, co-op, Government, Human Resources, Investing, mutual, Pension Poverty, pensions
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What’s this charge cap really going to cost? (1000th blog)
Ringing out the old and ringing in the new should be managed with a little more responsibility than the approach adopted by the DWP through their dodgy Impact Assessment Continue reading
Do employers have a duty of care to their staff when they retire?
If you take the Daily Express, you will have been reading a series of front page headlines about “rip-off pensions”. Here’s this Thursday’s edition http://www.express.co.uk/news/retirement/423869/Millions-hit-by-scandal-of-pensions-rip-off . The argument is based on some recently released figures “A 65-year-old with average pension … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, annuity, auto-enrolment, brand, club pension, customer service, dc pensions, pensions
Tagged annuity, Business and Economy, Government, Investing, Liability Driven Investment, Life annuity, National Employment Savings Trust, pension playpen, Pension Protection Fund, pensions, public sector, Public Sector Pensions, Steve Webb
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Why bother to save? – Invest instead!
What this policy is about is getting people to invest in real assets for the best interests in society Continue reading
Posted in annuity, auto-enrolment, Bankers, Change, club pension, Management, Mark Carney, pensions, social media, workplace pensions
Tagged BOE, Business, Business and Economy, Defined benefit pension plan, Employment, Fiscal, Government, Human Resources, Inflation, Insurance, interest, Mark Carney, monetary, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, rates, Retirement
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