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Category Archives: now
Finger in the dyke stuff! DC pricing is just too leaky Jon!
Jonathan Stapleton has written a deliberatively provocative piece in Professional Pensions which will be applauded by the operators of workplace pensions but is going to get short shrift from me. You can read Jonathan’s opinions here. The gist of Jonathan’s … Continue reading
Posted in auto-enrolment, dc pensions, de-risking, Debt, NEST, now, pensions
Tagged dyke, jonathan Stapleton, NEST, NOW Pensions, operators, pensions
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Four ways to harvest what auto-enrolment has sown!
We have to think how we can best support the 1m employers who have workplace pensions. Here are some solutions we’re coming to. Continue reading
Posted in accountants, auto-enrolment, NEST, now, pensions
Tagged AE, auto enrolment, NEST, pensions, Technology, TPR
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“NOW and then” ; why one big master trust is “off the list”!
News that one of the “big three master trusts ” was closing a significant door to new business, came as a surprise to auto-enrolment practitioners. NOW claimed to have voluntarily withdrawn itself from the Pension Regulator’s master trust assurance list, meaning … Continue reading
Posted in now, pensions
Tagged MAF, Master trust assurance, Morten Nilsson, NOW Pensions, The Pensions Regulator, TPR
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NOW – for something completely different.
Amid all the noise of auto-enrolment , one master trusts has put its head down and got on with mending a damaged reputation by hard work and through decent behaviour. I’m talking about NOW pensions. NOW was set up by … Continue reading
Posted in napf, NEST, now, pensions
Tagged Amy Mankelow, ATP, auto enrolment, Business, Confidence, Denmark, Jocelyn Blackwell, Moreton nillson, net-pay, NOW Pensions, pension playpen, pensions, trustees
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“The best way forward or the NEST way forward?”
If you are an employer and you have made a decision, there is no liability—that is clear in the legislation. If you have decided to go with NEST rather than NOW: or People’s, there is no liability that can fall … Continue reading
Posted in accountants, auto-enrolment, NEST, now, pensions, Personal Accounts
Tagged Aviva, dc pensions, DWP, Government, Legal and General, NEST, NOW, pension, Pension new, pension playpen, pensions, People's Pension, Richard Harrington, Standard Life, workplace Pensions
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Top 5 AE myths revealed – top blog from NOW pensions
Thanks to NOW Pensions for this healthy myth-buster – we’ll be spreading the word so no-one gets left behind This year up to 500,000 small firms will have to comply with the new auto enrolment legislation introducing workplace pensions for … Continue reading
Posted in accountants, advice gap, auto-enrolment, now, pensions
Tagged auto enrolment, auto entolment, Morton, mythbuster, no-one gets left bhind, NOW Pensions
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All at sea! TPR’s “Trafalgar” for maritime and offshore workers.
Well done Lesley Titcombe and hurrah for our best naval victory since Trafalgar! Continue reading
Posted in auto-enrolment, now
Tagged auto enrolment, Business, de-risking, DWP, Employment, Financial services, Lesley Titcombe, National Employment Savings Trust, NEST, offshore workers, pension, Pension Poverty, Pension Regulator, pensions, Politics, Retirement, Ros Altmann, Seafarers, Society, TPR
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Crowd-sourcing a solution to the net-pay pension problem.
The people who are losing out on Government contributions into their workplace pensions because their schemes work on net pay rather than “relief at source” are oblivious of this problem, they serve coffee in Costa, work in nursing homes and … Continue reading
Posted in auto-enrolment, Blogging, journalism, NEST, now, Payroll, pension playpen, pensions, Pensions Regulator
Tagged Adrian Boulding, auto enrolment, DWP, henry tapper, Kate Upcraft, net-pay, Pensioins, pension, relief at source, Ros Altmann, Workie, workplace pension
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NOW – that’s what I call pensions!
Why the Pension PlayPen supports NOW as a workplace pension It’s no easy thing starting a master trust from scratch. Though NOW Pensions, had the experience of running a state backed pension in Denmark (through parent APT), coming … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, auto-enrolment, now, pensions
Tagged employers, growing pains, MAoney Marketing, Mastertrusts, Moreton Nilsson, NOW, NOW Pensions, pension, pension scheme, pensions
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One million employers buying pensions in the dark.
I am comfortable with the interventions by Government in the sales side of workplace pensions. The DWP’s minimum standards legislation is progressing well and we look forward to seeing some secondary legislation in September. The Treasury’s work transforming the choices … Continue reading
Posted in accountants, auto-enrolment, DWP, NEST, now, Payroll, pension playpen, pensions, Start ups
Tagged PensionPlaypen, pensions, Policy, Politics, Pot, Pot-follow-member, The Open, The Pensions Regulator
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