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Pension power! Is your employer doing enough?
Most people who read articles about pensions earn their living from pensions – managing the benefits or the investments, setting the things up or closing the things down. Most of the people who benefit from pensions do not (sadly) read … Continue reading
Posted in annuity, corporate governance, customer service, dc pensions, Facebook, mallowstreet, pension playpen, pensions, Retirement, social media, twitter
Tagged Chief executive officer, Compensation & Benefits, Employment, Financial services, Human Resources, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, Trade union
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Now Pensions – Danegeld ,fools gold or a new beginning?
The sooner they can publish the detail the better.
Posted in annuity, corporate governance, customer service, dc pensions, de-risking, mallowstreet, NEST, pension playpen, pensions, Personal Accounts, Retirement
Tagged Denmark, Federation of Small Businesses, Financial services, James Goldsmith, Legal & General, National Employment Savings Trust, Nigel Waterson, pension, Pension Trust, Steve Webb
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Perverse incentives; Sexycash or prudent pension?
The problem we all face when we are asked to choose between cash or pension is very complicated. It is possible to put a cash price on a pound’s worth of pension but that’s just the beginning of the story. … Continue reading
Posted in annuity, corporate governance, customer service, dc pensions, de-risking, mallowstreet, NEST, pension playpen, pensions, Retail Distribution Review, Retirement, social media
Tagged Alan, Employment, Financial adviser, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, Pension Protection Fund, Retirement, Steve Webb, trustee
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Rising to Beecroft’s challenge- can we make pensions work for micro-employers?
Scanning the Pension Press as one does when having breakfast these days, I came across an excellent piece of reporting on Pension Insight (fast becoming one of the best on-line pension publications). New laws are to be introduced which will … Continue reading
Posted in annuity, corporate governance, customer service, dc pensions, de-risking, Fiduciary Management, mallowstreet, NEST, Nick Clegg, pension playpen, pensions, Personal Accounts
Tagged Coalition, David Cameron, Downing Street, Government, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, Small business, Steve Webb
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DC Risk sharing aux etats de Jersey
A year ago I wrote of the NAPF 2010 gig as our train departed Lime Street. I’m writing as my train pulls out of Piccadilly-Joanne may be aboard. I hope she’s not bought another first class ticket as this train has been … Continue reading
Posted in annuity, EU Solvency II, mallowstreet, pension playpen, Retirement, Salford Quays, Treasury
Tagged Actuary, Crapauds, Derek Benfield, Flybe, Jersey, Manchester, pension, States of Jersey
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24 cheers for The Pension Play Pen Lunch
There’s a fine tradition in this country of people getting together in coffee houses and taverns and sorting out how and with whom business should be transacted. This was how the insurance market was founded in London and it still is how … Continue reading
Posted in annuity, corporate governance, Facebook, mallowstreet, NEST, pension playpen, pensions, social media
Tagged annuity, bribery act, corporate governance, corporate risk, Cyberbury, Debate, Employment, Facebook, Leeds, London, Lunch, mallowstreet, Manchester, National Employment Savings Trust, NEST, pension, Pension new, pension playpen, Pension Pound, Pension Poverty, Pensions, pensions, Public Sector Pensions, social media, yeovil town fc, YTFC
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Sharing stuff
I won’t be the first to remark on the polarisation of the business community between those who see the internet as a threat to their intellectual property (grounded) and those who regard collaboration as a means of creating a better world for … Continue reading
Posted in corporate governance, Facebook, mallowstreet, Martin Lewis, social media
Tagged Business, corporate governance, corporate risk, Cyberbury, Facebook, Intellectual property, Internet Marketing, linked in, mallowstreet, Marketing and Advertising, Martin Lewis, policing, Politics, social media, Society, Thomas Gray, twitter
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Can’t beat the NAPF!
As trade bodies go, the NAPF is pretty good. It starts from a good place, it wants people to get good retirement outcomes. It operates with the support of all the sectors of the pensions industry and it’s been doing its job … Continue reading
Posted in dc pensions, de-risking, mallowstreet, pension playpen, pensions, Retirement, social media
Tagged Business, dc pensions, de-risking, Employment, Government, Human Resources, mallowstreet, National Association of Pension Funds, pension, Pension new, pension playpen, pensions, Public Sector Pensions, Retirement, social media, Trade association, trustee
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Champagne down the drain
Many thanks to those who came, and those who wanted to come but couldn’t – not the easiest of days to get about.
Posted in annuity, dc pensions, de-risking, mallowstreet, Martin Lewis, Retail Distribution Review, Retirement
Tagged annuity, Daily Express, dc pensions, de-risking, Financial services, Human Resources, Insurance, Life annuity, mallowstreet, Martin Lewis, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, Pension new, Pensions, Politics, Retail Distribution Review, Retirement, Retirement annuity plan
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How much volatility can we take? Pension Play Pen Lunch Sept 5th 2011
James Smith- First Actuarial Ben Mulroney– mallowstreet Jenny Kreser – Silverman Sherliker Mark Benfold Railway Pension Scheme Malcolm Delahaye – Supertrust Jennny Yeo – Affiliate Managers Paull Chapple -Close Brothers Jeroen Wilbrink – Partner at SECOR Asset Management Thornton Wells – Mattioli Woods Michael Clarke -Capita … Continue reading
Posted in dc pensions, de-risking, Liability Driven Investment, mallowstreet, pension playpen, Retirement
Tagged Actuarial science, Ben Mulroney, corporate risk, dc pensions, de-risking, Financial services, Human Resources, Liability Driven Investment, mallowstreet, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, Pension new, pension playpen, Pension Poverty, Pensions, Politics, Retirement, Risk Management, trustee
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