Category Archives: pension playpen
……we have a problem, Brighton.
Every so often we get asked questions by people to whom the answers really matter. I’ll leave you to guess who might be asking these ones! a)Is there really a problem for unadvised small and micro employers to … Continue reading
Ros Altmann’s presentation on the merits of employing #olderworkers
14 Jul 14 – Fuller Working Lives: Announcing the new Business Champion for Older Workers. A joint ILC-UK/DWP event hosted by Legal & General from ILC- UK According to Office for National Statistics estimates, in the next 10 years … Continue reading
Posted in accountants, advice gap, brand, pension playpen, pensions
Tagged dc pensions, Government, Insurance, older workers, pension, Retirement, Ros Altmann, social media, Steve Webb
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Ros Altmann to be the over 50s
News from the Sunday Times via @paullewismoney reports that Ros Altmann is to be our (eg those over 50) new work tsar. This I take to be good news. Ros Altmann to be named Government's champion for older workers … Continue reading
Posted in auto-enrolment, Blogging, club pension, pension playpen, pensions, welfare
Tagged Back to work, BBC, Collective DC, DB pensions, Paul Lewis, pensions, Ros Altmann
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Carry on nudging!
We may just have been nudged. We’ve been getting interested in salary sacrifice. We have been building a salary sacrifice modeller into the workforce assessment tool on http://www.pensionplaypen.com by popular demand. Initially I had thought salary sacrifice was benefiting employers but … Continue reading
Pension PlayPen overall winner at IMAIA 2014!
We do “new”, not because old is wrong but because new is where the future is. So we entered the IMAIA this year at the behest of our friend and mentor Jenny Davidson, the new Reward Director at Talk … Continue reading
Posted in brand, Cruise boats, customer service, de-risking, gloriana, henley, Henry Tapper blog, pension playpen
Tagged Awards, Business, Employment, Financial services, Government, IMAIA, IMAIA14, Marketing, Pension new, pension playpen, pensions, Retirement, twitter
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Pension PlayPen- Britain’s most innovative pension consultancy
Dawid Konotey-Ahulu mailed me yesterday to tell me we’d been named Engaged Investor’s most innovative pension consultancy. It’s a mark of Dawid’s genorosity that he thought to contact me, even though the firm he started Redington had (along with … Continue reading
The great pensions rotation
“Everything dies honey that’s a fact, and everything that dies some day comes back” – Bruce Springsteen DB died the day they guaranteed indexation. DA will be born the day they take that guarantee away. Ring out the old, ring … Continue reading
Posted in dc pensions, de-risking, defined ambition, defined aspiration, FSA, pension playpen, pensions, Pensions Regulator
Tagged Business, DA, DB pensions, dc, Defined Ambition, Employment, Financial services, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, Pension new, pension playpen, pensions, Retirement
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Awards reward Pension PlayPen for a cracking year
It was only a year ago when I, Andy ,Stella ,Martin, Steven,Guy and the lads from @firstactuarial signed the share register and launched http://www.pensionplaypen.com Within 12 months we have had nearly 100,000 visitors to our site; 329 companies use our … Continue reading
No small company should spend 103 man days on pensions!
Paul Foot of Sage is right to point to research carried out by the London Business School that concluded that 103 man days were being devoted to auto-enrolment by companies staging in 2013. I don’t know how you account for … Continue reading
Mind the gap – who’ll be supplying to auto-enrolment in years to come?
Introduction This article is a summary of a presentation given to the Friends of Automatic Enrolment on 19th June. The FAoE had been privileged to have Steve Webb present and engage fully with the audience. Unfortunately he just missed this … Continue reading