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Category Archives: Management
Till we know the “money” – shut up about “value”.
I had a number of meeting yesterday culminating in an afternoon spent with members of the Transparency Task Force (TTF), with the FCA and with certain interested observers. I can report the meeting happened and what was said but … Continue reading
Posted in Management, Pension Freedoms, pensions, Pensions Regulator
Tagged Asset management, assets, Business, charges, costs, Money, Pay, value, Value for Money
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Terry Smith – What I have learned from Fundsmith in the Past Five Years
Fundsmith is my favourite fund manager. Like Aberdeen (another favourite whose conference I’m going to today), it is an organisation with a strong purpose (moral and social). Terry Smith is an extraordinary man who’s views are always worth reading. He … Continue reading
Posted in investment, leadership, Management
Tagged fund management, Fundsmith, Investment, moral purpose, purpose, social purpose
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“A question of trust”- accountants and auto-enrolment pensions.
I’m not going to quote Einstein’s definition of insanity as that would be madness. To understand how tactical short-cuts spiral into destruction look at what PPI has done to the share price of our high-street banks This blog is for accountants who … Continue reading
Posted in accountants, actuaries, Management, pension playpen, pensions
Tagged accountants, advice, auto enrolment, Brand, cattle, dc pensions, DWP, Employment, Financial Services Authority, pension playpen, Pension Regulator, pensions, practice, Practitioner, profession, regulators, Retirement, wokrplace pensions
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Auto-Enrolment needs more Training and less Selling
The standards adopted by those administering auto-enrolment have been high. Compliance to some complex problems that payroll, HR and pension providers have faced has been impressive. Sure there have been failures but countries (such as Ireland) reviewing the progress of … Continue reading
Posted in First Actuarial, Management, Pension Freedoms, pensions, Pensions Regulator
Tagged auto enrolment, Business, Choose a Pension, compliance, defaqto, efileready, Employment, Financial SatNav, Financial services, Financial Technology, FinTech, ITM, NEST, pension, Pension new, pension playpen, pensionsync, Retirement
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Whose risk is it anyway?
No matter how we look at it – we do not- and will not- live in a command economy. That means we have to take decisions for ourselves rather than be told how to live our lives. If you want … Continue reading
Posted in CDC, dc pensions, defined ambition, Management, Money Advice Service
Tagged apples, choice, dc pensions, de-risking, DWP, Employment, Financial services, Government, pension, Pension Freedoms, Pension new, Pension Wise, Retirement, Ros Altmann, Tax
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Meaninglessly big data.
I don’t like this infographic, it just appeared on my twitter feed to attract me to an article that would lead me to the conclusion that I was helpless and needed the assistance of some organisation to create me a … Continue reading
Posted in Change, Management, pensions, Politics
Tagged Big Problem, big-data, Data, fail, God
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What payroll can do to keep away the loan sharks.
We all know the sharks that swim in financial waters preying on the weakest and driving them and their families into deeper debt with all the social and health problems that “deep debt” brings. And I’m sure that if it … Continue reading
Posted in Debt, investment, ISA, Management, Martin Lewis, Payroll, pension playpen
Tagged Business, Ceridian, CIPP, dc pensions, debt, Employment, Financial services, Loan-shark, Martin Lewis, MSE, National Employment Savings Trust, Payroll, pension, Retirement, Saving, Savings, Steve Webb
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If we can provide health screening – we can provide pension guidance
Organising the Guidance Guarantee is a daunting task but it is no more daunting than many public welfare initiatives. Each year the NHS screens and advises millions of us on a variety of health issues. From STDs to Breast … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, happiness, Henry Tapper blog, Management, pensions
Tagged Age UK, Business, CAB, Financial services, Guidance, Guidance Guarantee, MAS, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, Pension new, TPAS
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It’s a phoney war- what’s happening on the other side of the Channel?
I am still surprised how people are organising themselves to do their jobs. You’d have thought that the accountants and book-keepers who provide financial stability, get people paid and manage the tax affairs of Britain’s 1.25m employers would be the … Continue reading
Fund management’s like a car-boot, you’ve got to know what you’re paying (and what you’re buying).
Fund management’s like a car-boot, you’ve got to know what you’re paying (and what you’re buying). Continue reading
Posted in auto-enrolment, Bankers, brand, Farefail, Financial Education, First Actuarial, FSA, hedge funds, infrastucture, investment, London, Management, middleware, NEST
Tagged AMC, Business, Business and Economy, charges, costs, dc pensions, Defined benefit pension plan, DWP, Employment, Financial services, Government, National Employment Savings Trust, NEST, pension, Pension Regulator, pensions, Retirement, Steve Webb, TER, Total Charge
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