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Category Archives: Pension Freedoms
“If you want a do-it-all dashboard – you’ll have to wait a decade”.
Speaking at an AgeWage/FDATA event last night, Romi Savova told a packed house that the MAPS dashboard could do little more than find people’s pensions with the detailed information we need to take decisions on our pots delivered off-dashboard via … Continue reading
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Posted in advice gap, age wage, Pension Freedoms, pensions
Tagged DWP, FCA, FDATA, Open Banking, open finance, Pension Bee, pensions, Romi Savova
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A progressive way to talk about pensions
A progressive approach to workplace pensions Yesterday I talked about the importance of reporting, both to and from employers. Employers want to understand how their workplace pension is working and savers want to know how their money is doing. The … Continue reading
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How are your staff’s pensions getting on?
If you remember back to the mid part of this fading decade, one of the issues facing the 1.4m employers who had to stage auto-enrolment, was which workplace pension to choose for your staff. If you were part of … Continue reading
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Posted in age wage, open finance, Payroll, Pension Freedoms, pension playpen, pensions
Tagged NEST, Payroll, Pension Freedoms, pensions, Peoples
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Are IFAs missing the wood for the trees?
A thread , which is now nearly a week old, has over 1000 posts on it and it focusses exclusively on the tax problems doctors are having resulting from the tension from too much pension . That is, till the … Continue reading
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Posted in advice gap, NHS, Pension Freedoms, pensions
Tagged AA taper, advice, Guidance, IFA, NHS, pensions, Taper
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Dr Kate Lovett can’t afford her pension.
A psychiatric consultant finds herself paying more in tax than she earns. A spokesperson for the pensions industry opines. I understand Dr Kate Lovett has has a large increase in her DB pension, which breaches the Annual Allowance pension rules … Continue reading
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Why the door’s slammed shut on open pensions.
During the week, AgeWage was invited to compete in the Nesta Open Up Challenge. Nesta is funded by the UK lottery – they are an agency of change sponsored by the likes of you and me; As any entrepreneurial start-up … Continue reading
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Posted in advice gap, age wage, Pension Freedoms, pensions, Start ups, Technology
Tagged BEIS, DWP, HMT, Innovation, Nesta, Origo, Pension Dashboard, pensions, Technology
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#pensionsdashboardsummit – it could be feisty!
I’ll be off on a Boris Bike to Marble Arch in a moment to the Pension Dashboard Summit at the Arum Hotel. From the opening session , which pitches Chris Sier together with L&G supremo Chris Clarke, this looks … Continue reading
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Posted in age wage, Pension Freedoms, pension playpen, pensions
Tagged #pensiondashboardsummit, API, CMA, Dashboard, DWP, pension, Pension Dashboard, pensions
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Here’s to pensioners enjoying their pensions!
I’m on the Flying Scotsman to York (the Yorkshireman). My carriage is full of pensioners (including me), people thanking their lucky stars they’ve got the chance to ride behind this famous loco and sit in a beautiful compartment. And the … Continue reading
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Posted in club pension, dc pensions, Henry Tapper blog, Pension Freedoms, pension playpen, pensions
Tagged Fun, Older People, pension playpen, pensioners, pensions
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What is CDC?
I’ve had a couple of calls recently for a simple explanation of what CDC is and why it could be useful in Britain today. CDC is an abbreviation for Collective Defined Contribution. A CDC scheme is created by contributions … Continue reading
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Posted in CDC, Pension Freedoms, pensions
Tagged adviser, annuity, Business, CDC, Drawdown, pensions, Royal Mail
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A shot in the arm for pension payroll?
I write a regular column for Reward Strategy, formerly Payroll World. This is the last column I wrote for Jerome Small, who has been editor for a few years but is leaving to go freelance. The people who pay us … Continue reading
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Posted in Payroll, Pension Freedoms, pensions
Tagged CDC, Payroll, pensioner, pensions, reward, Rewatd Strategy
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