Category Archives: pension playpen
Why this carnage at the Investment Association?
I think I owe Daniel Godfrey an apology. I met him on a couple of occasions and he impressed upon me he was serious about transparency of cost and charges. I didn’t believe him- or at least I thought he … Continue reading
It’s auto-enrolment what’s done for tax relief!
I was leading a recent research document from the DWP assessing the impact of auto-enrolment, these are the key findings 10 million workers are estimated to be in the eligible target group for Automatic Enrolment. 9 million workers are estimated … Continue reading
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Tagged auto enrolment, automatic enrolment, Bog-off, DWP, EET, Flat rate, Geofre Osborne, higher rate, pensions, public finances, Tax, tax relief, TEE
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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
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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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Does drawdown need a charges cap for pension drawdown
This post was written a few months ago but never published. The main thrust is still relevant, the thrust is that we are better off building better and more relevant products than trying to squeeze drawdown into a shirt two … Continue reading
Posted in accountants, advice gap, pension playpen, pensions
Tagged Business, CAP, charges, Drawdown, DWP, Employment, Financial services, flexible drawdown, Government, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, Pension new, Pension Regulator, pensions, Politics, Public Sector Pensions, Value for Money
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Mobilising millions – training employers on AE.
Who is going to mobilise the millions of bosses still to stage auto-enrolment? There are not 1.3m but 1.8m employers in the UK who will need to stage auto-enrolment.Of these , all but around 65,000, more than 1,790,000 employers have … Continue reading
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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“A question of trust”- accountants and auto-enrolment pensions.
I’m not going to quote Einstein’s definition of insanity as that would be madness. To understand how tactical short-cuts spiral into destruction look at what PPI has done to the share price of our high-street banks This blog is for accountants who … Continue reading
Posted in accountants, actuaries, Management, pension playpen, pensions
Tagged accountants, advice, auto enrolment, Brand, cattle, dc pensions, DWP, Employment, Financial Services Authority, pension playpen, Pension Regulator, pensions, practice, Practitioner, profession, regulators, Retirement, wokrplace pensions
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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