Category Archives: Popcorn Pensions
The Regulator offers employers help with selecting a workplace pension
I thoroughly recommend this document to any employer.
Posted in advice gap, auto-enrolment, Payroll, pension playpen, pensions, Popcorn Pensions
Tagged Business, DWP, Employment, Financial services, Government, National Employment Savings Trust, NEST, pension, Pension new, pension playpen, Pension Regulator, pensions, Politics, Retirement, Society, Steve Webb
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Let’s give pensions leaders the chance to lead
I asked him whether he thought the Dutch pension system superior to the UK’s and he laughed “of course it is, it delivers better outcomes”. Continue reading
If it’s worth having- let’s have it now!
News travels fast on the web but the news that it’s taken the BBC 5 years to work out that a lot of the technology they’d blown £100m on is available today for free, clearly travelled slowly. If a technology … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, auto-enrolment, pensions, Popcorn Pensions
Tagged BBC, Digital electronics, Digital media, IPhone, Liquid crystal display, Regent Street, Salford Quays, YouTube
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A democratic way to improve DC investment.
The responsibility for improving DC governance falls on all of us Continue reading
Do consumers benefit from risk-based pricing?
may be wrong, the idea put up by John Raven, that a risk-based system delivers more may be right, but intuitively I sense we are moving to a more pooled approach to pricing. Continue reading
A momentous day for restoring confidence in UK pensions
We cannot have confidence in a system where member’s pensions can be impacted by as much as 30% though advisory arbitrage. Continue reading
Get up! Stand up! For your pension rights!
Governance on these schemes cannot be imposed by Government, it needs to happen organically – bottom up. Continue reading
Helping companies take decisions on pensions
One of the first thing you are taught at sales school is to “sell not tell”. Selling people an idea is about planting and nurturing an idea, not marching customers to the check-out desk. When it comes to taking a … Continue reading
Posted in pensions, Popcorn Pensions, Retirement
Tagged Business, Employment, Funds, Investing, Mutual Funds, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, Question
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The sins of the past
We have concentrated our thinking on how the financial services industry will cope with the new business strain of auto-enrolment. For many providers the bigger issue will be the impact on its existing business. Continue reading
Jack the Jouneyman; PlayPen nag up for the craic!
Thanks to Eamonn O’Connor, JLT’s top man and our good friend for leasing us his horse. Continue reading
Posted in Horse racing, pension playpen, Popcorn Pensions
Tagged Ffos Las, Ghost, God, Horse, Ludlow, Rebecca Curtis, Wales, Whitehall
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