Category Archives: Payroll
One small step for payroll, one giant leap for auto-enrolment.
There have been two events over the past couple of weeks that I think we’ll look back to as tipping points in the auto-enrolment staging timeline. Till now, employers have had no choice but to send and collect data to … Continue reading
Posted in auto-enrolment, Payroll, pension playpen, pensions
Tagged Legal and General, NEST, pensionsync, Sage
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Making “PLSA” more than a name-change.
“What’s the point of disruption?” This is the kind of exam question that I’d love to answer. Just sit me down in some massive gymnasium with a pen and paper and I’d hand you back 2000 words an hour later which … Continue reading
Posted in consultant, napf, Payroll, Pensions Regulator
Tagged pension playpen, PLSA, retirment
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Pro Bono – remember that? Hat’s off to ICPA and QTAC
I’ve been blogging recently about failure The failure of the Investment Association to align itself with the interests of its ultimate customers- consumers The failure of the NAPF to engage with employers not in the club (namely the 1.8 m … Continue reading
Posted in accountants, actuaries, advice gap, Payroll
Tagged accountancy, auto enrolment, Payroll, pensions, practice, Tax
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#APPC15 Why Payroll needs to manage Pensions.
This is an edited version of the keynote speech I delivered to the CIPP conference this morning (October 7th 2015). I blog as the Pension Plowman, and my blog is called the vision of the Pension Plowman. You might think … Continue reading
Posted in Payroll, pension playpen, pensions
Tagged APPC15, auto enrolment, Business, CIPP, Employment, Financial services, NEST, net Pay Payroll world, Payroll, pension, pension playpen, Pension Regulator, pensions, Retirement
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Are employers buying workplace pensions on value or price?
We have started an interesting project looking at the reasons given for choosing a workplace pension. Our sample is those employers who have used http://www.pensionplaypen.com ‘s “choose a pension” tool. For those who don’t know- the tool analyses data input … Continue reading
Will auto-enrolment capacity get crunched?
Today is the day of the Friends of Auto-Enrolment Capacity Crunch Conference which takes place in PWC’s offices at Charing Cross. The big debates of the day will be about Whether there will be a capacity crunch either in … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, auto-enrolment, Payroll, pension playpen, pensions
Tagged AE, Andy Agethangelou, API, Business, CIPP, employers, FoAE, FofAE, Friends of Auto-Enrolment, Payroll, payroll administrator, payroll bureaux, payroll professional body, payroll software, Pension new, pension playpen, pensions, Ros Altmann, Steve Webb, Workplace Pensiions, workplace Pensions
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He’s here, he’s there,he’s every f**k*n where -Carsten Staehr
If you were in Carriage B on the 15.35 Kings Cross to Newcastle yesterday afternoon, our apologies. It was a quiet coach, it wasn’t quiet. Carsten Staehr was in the carriage. Two weeks ago, at the age of 52, Carsten … Continue reading
Posted in Payroll, pension playpen
Tagged auto enrolment, Business, Carsten, Carsten Staehr, Cintrra, Employment, Financial services, Government, Newcastle, Payroll, Payroll World, pensions, Retirement, Viking
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Disruption – is how social media regulates
In the context of Business continuity management, Disruption is an event which causes an “unplanned, negative deviation from the expected delivery … according to the organization’s objectives”. In this blog, I argue that disruption is part of the governance process … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, auto-enrolment, Payroll, smelly
Tagged Business, Business and Economy, corporate governance, corporate risk, dc pensions, Disruption, Employment, Financial services, negative, pension, pension playpen, Pension Regulator, pensions, Politics, RDR, regulation, Retirement, South West Trains, Steve Webb
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Come on Sage – you can and should do better!
Sage are a great British success story. Over the past 20 years they have become pre-eminent as a payroll software supplier and latterly a portal for a range of back-office business solutions. Www.pensionplaypen.com is itself a business customer, using SagePay … Continue reading
Turning payroll administrators into pension managers
A payroll administrator pays someone tomorrow, a pension manager pays someone for ever. A workplace pension is no more than deferred pay, you remove money from today’s pay-packet and it is returned later, when there’s no money … Continue reading