Category Archives: Management
The Spurious Certainty of Chicken Licken
There are two certainties – death and taxes; oh – add to that a pension in payment! Or so the officers of the DWP , the Government Actuary and the Pensions Regulator would have it. GAD tried to knock the idea … Continue reading
Posted in annuity, dc pensions, de-risking, defined aspiration, Management, NEST, pension playpen, pensions, Retirement
Tagged Amsterdam, Dutch, DWP, Holland, Jersey, pension, Steve Webb, Terry le Sueur
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Steve Webb’s good week
Now anyone who can talk of a “regulatory regime which allows 1000 flowers to bloom” has got to have been taking the happy pills. Continue reading
Posted in annuity, auto-enrolment, dc pensions, defined aspiration, Liberal Democrats, Management, NEST, pension playpen, pensions, Popcorn Pensions, Treasury
Tagged Defined benefit pension plan, Department for Work and Pensions, DWP, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, Pensions Management Institute, Ros Altmann, Steve, Steve Webb, Tesco, UK State Pension, Webb
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Who pays for a register of pensions?
I’ve been writing this week about the small pension policies that most of us have “lying around” in some drawer or other. Maybe they came from well intentioned pension savings plans that just couldn’t be kept up, maybe from company DC schemes that … Continue reading
Posted in annuity, auto-enrolment, Management, Martin Lewis, pensions, Popcorn Pensions, Retail Distribution Review, Retirement, social media, Treasury
Tagged Association of British Insurers, DC Comics, Government, Insurance, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, Scheme, Steve Webb
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The loyal goose
Listening to two football managers this morning, the Red one who’s in control, the blue one who’s not, it wasn’t hard to see why Ferguson is the titan he is. He got his job the hard way and kept it in … Continue reading
Posted in Management, Yeovil Town
Tagged Gary Johnson, Huish Park, Loyalty, Monty Panesar, Old Trafford, Terry Skiverton, Yeovil, yeovil town fc
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The language that we use
This from the normally readable Booznews This year’s fact-based shopper marketing study, prepared in partnership with Shopper Sciences and the Grocery Manufacturers Association, reveals, among other findings, that leading CPG manufacturers and retailers are increasingly adopting a solutions-based approach to amplify … Continue reading
Facilitators and Institutions Defined?
This is an excellent peice by “pragmatist” who blogs at http://www.sdj-pragmatist.blogspot.com ” In essence, I’ve defined “facilitators” as organisations that exist to solve their own problems; and “institutions” as organisations that exist to solve their own problems at their … Continue reading
Aspirational pensions – popcorn pensions!!
There are going to be a lot of objections to aspirational pensions over the weeks and months to come, but for me they are popcorn pensions – delicious, affordable and while they may not be the haute cuisine of the guaranteed Final Salary plans pragmatic.
Posted in annuity, auto-enrolment, dc pensions, de-risking, EU Solvency II, happiness, Henry Tapper blog, Management, pension playpen, pensions, Popcorn Pensions, Public sector pensions, Retirement, Treasury
Tagged Defined benefit pension plan, Dutch, National Association of Pension Funds, pension, Pension Protection Fund, States of Jersey, Steve Webb, Webb
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How’s this for a rip-off?
I’m not sure if it’s my job to whistle blow and so far they have only followed 82 people on twitter (including me) – but don’t you reckon this kind of offer is a little dubious? Continue reading
Posted in customer service, dc pensions, de-risking, happiness, Henry Tapper blog, Management, Martin Lewis
Tagged Cash, Credit history, Employment, Financial Service Authority, Financial services, Financial Services Authority, Investment, Marketing, National Employment Savings Trust, No Age, pension, Pension fund, Retirement, Seal hunting
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