A further improvement under Thatcher's government came with Section 10 of the Social Security Act 1986. The statutory qualifying period…
"The 2000’s suffered from a total absence of Policy or Ministerial direction": aha, Blair and Brown again. Blair was a…
I've checked again: "The Legislation: The right to a "preserved [DB] pension" ... was enacted under the Social Security Act 1973" So…
I've just checked: under Thatcher there was introduced a little bit of inflation-linking but much the bulk of it was…
Category Archives: NEST
Pensions for nothing and advice for free
Insurers will reconsider their options on schemes where commission is paid but no advice is delivered Continue reading
Posted in auto-enrolment, investment, NEST, pensions
Tagged AMC, Consultant, Employment, Financial services, Insurance, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, Trail commission
8 Comments
Who speaks for workplace pensions?
So howabout PQM lite- something that smaller employers can aspire to? Continue reading
Posted in auto-enrolment, napf, NEST, pensions
Tagged Employment, FCA, NAPF, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, PQM, Steve Webb, www.pensionplaypen.com
17 Comments
Do consumers benefit from risk-based pricing?
may be wrong, the idea put up by John Raven, that a risk-based system delivers more may be right, but intuitively I sense we are moving to a more pooled approach to pricing. Continue reading
Heavyweight support for CDC – the Dutchmen strike back!
I sit and watch; – like 1.2m other employers, I just want to see the money I pay into a workplace pension generate the best outcomes it can. Continue reading
Posted in actuaries, advice gap, auto-enrolment, CDC, David Pitt-Watson, NEST, pensions, Retirement, workplace pensions
Tagged Aviva, Bank of England, CDC, David Pitt-Watson, Dutch, Government, John, pension
7 Comments
Cometh the hour;- the Regulator gets its man
I’m really pleased that they have chosen as their new Executive Director for DC – Andrew Warwick-Thompson Continue reading
Who’s been sleeping in my bed? Shocking stuff on stock lending.
Storage companies do not lend out your property, but fund managers do! Continue reading
Posted in dc pensions, Fiduciary Management, Financial Education, First Actuarial, NEST, pension playpen, pensions, stock lending
Tagged BlackRock, Cass Business School, Esma, European Securities and Markets Authority, Exchange-traded fund, HSBC, Investment management, Securities lending, UCITS, United States
9 Comments
Primavera for the pension playpen
This site will not be for pension people, it will be for people interested in pensions Continue reading
Honest! Open Government in operation!
The word “transparent” is a syllable too long to be “honest”. Continue reading
Posted in auto-enrolment, brand, dc pensions, de-risking, ezra pound, NEST, Ricky Gervais, social media, TS Eliot
Tagged Aaron Swartz, Labour, O'Reilly Media, Open Government, pension, Ricky Gervais, Steve Webb, United States
5 Comments
Bill – get some DC resource into the Regulator now!
Bill, t tPR need a gong-worthy head of DC asap. Continue reading
Better ways to diversify the default.
When people see the jigsaw being put together , we may even get better public confidence in workplace pension schemes – something devoutly to be hoped for! Continue reading
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