Category Archives: pension playpen
Why don’t people trust pensions and pension sellers? Guest Blog from Mark Scantlebury
These are the unregulated thoughts of seven guys and one gal, having a chat over a Pension Play Pen pint and a pie. Please, don’t construe any of this as any sort of advice. We take no responsibility for what … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, Counting House, Employment, Lunch, Pension Play Pen, pension playpen, pensions, Quietroom, Retirement
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Am I being unfairly targeted?
It was all going so well. We’d had a great day working and a great night playing and we’d made it back to chalet 147 at Center parks and were tucked up in bed. But one of our company us was … Continue reading
How to have fun without breaking the bank
Well you wouldn’t have thought that the newly opened Center Parcs near Woburn would afford 200 actuaries and pension geeks a good time. But you’d be reckoning without the child within that drives First Actuarial at work and play. The … Continue reading
Posted in actuaries, CDC, Center Parcs, monkey league, pension playpen
Tagged Alan Smith, CDC, Centre Parcs, Derek Benstead, first actuarial, Hilary Salt, Mark Riches, pension playpen, Peter Shellswell, Woburn
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The language of trust..Pension Play Pen Lunch- Monday
The Pension Play Pen lunch on Monday (Nov 3rd) will be led by Mark Scantlebury of Quietroom and will discuss the language of trust. The point of the Pension Play Pen Linked in group is to get nearly 6000 people … Continue reading
“To meet the needs of those in the middle” – what pension consultancy should be about!
The Advert On Tuesday I am sitting on a panel with good friends; Otto Thoresen, author of the Thoresen report; Mathew Arends, Partner at Aon Hewitt, Duncan Buchanan president of the Society of Pension Consultants. The session will be chaired … Continue reading
Posted in actuaries, advice gap, auto-enrolment, dc pensions, defined ambition, drawdown, Payroll, pension playpen, pensions, Retirement
Tagged annuity, dc pensions, Defined benefit pension plan, DWP, Employment, Financial services, National Employment Savings Trust, Pension Regulator, pensions, Politics, Public Sector Pensions, Retirement
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Parliament debates CDC -with a twist in the tail!
If you are generally interested in the way Britain will develop private pensions in the next twenty years, I would strongly recommend watching the two sessions of the General Committee reading the Pension Schemes Bill, The link to the video … Continue reading
MAS goes it alone to provide an “at retirement advisor directory”.
The Money Advice Service has been consulting over the past few months on what a Directory of IFAs might look like. This consultation was spurred by the imminent launch of the Guidance Guarantee which will generate requests for financial advice. … Continue reading
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Tagged advice, annuity, Business, Business and Economy, corporate governance, corporate risk, Defined benefit pension plan, Directory, Financial services, Financial Services Authority, Government, Guidance Guidance Guarantee, IFA, MAS, Money Advice Service, pension playpen, Retirement, Steve Webb
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When losing seems like winning- the last post from #thePitch14
We didn’t win but it felt like winning and how it feels to be Rebecca Coates of Properteco (the overall winner) , I’d like to know! It’s a gruelling 12 hour day and if it involves a trip down … Continue reading
Posted in auto-enrolment, pension playpen, pensions, Retirement, the pitch
Tagged #thepitch14, Business, dc pensions, de-risking, Employment, Government, pension, pension playpen, pensions, Pitch, Retirement, the Pitch
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Wish us luck as we Pitch to be Britain’s top micro-employer!
Today’s the day we pitch to be Britain’s top micro-enployer at the Paintworks in Bristol. We are one of 30 employers left in the competition, one of 20 actively trading- we have a 5% chance of winning! But that … Continue reading
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Tagged #Pitch14, accountants, auto enrolment, Business, dc pensions, Employment, Financial services, Government, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, pension playpen, pensions, Pitch 14, Retirement, Sift, Steve Webb, the Pitch
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Après-midi with the Bermondsey Bee – some thoughts on advice
I spent some leisure time yesterday afternoon with Steve Bee in and around the Bermondsey St Debtor’s Prison in which Jargon Free has its offices. I am 10 years younger than Steve and for many years have seen him as … Continue reading
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Tagged advice, Citizens Advice, Collective Pensions, Guidance, jargon free, pensions, steve bee
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