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Category Archives: with-profits
BRITAIN’S BIGGEST TABOOS: 20 MILLION PEOPLE STRESSED ABOUT FINANCES, YET TALKING ABOUT MONEY REMAINS OFF LIMITS
I don’t normally do press releases on here, I will make an exception here. People are embarrassed about money – when it’s their money they are talking about. The taboos about debt, wealth and financial planning are real and we need … Continue reading
Posted in pension playpen, pensions, Retirement, welfare, with-profits
Tagged Business, debt, Employment, Financial services, Investing, Investment, L&G, Legal & General, pension, Pension new, pensions, Retirement, taboos
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“My pension offer” – explaining CDC to a confused public!
John Ralfe has been expressing his frustration that none of the CDC champions have made him a two page offer to tell him what a CDC pension offer might look like. I’ve not done this yet, partly because I’ve been … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, auto-enrolment, CDC, pensions, with-profits, workplace pensions
Tagged annuities, Business, Business and Economy, CDC, collective, DC Defined Contributions, Defined benefit pension plan, Drawdown, DWP, Employment, Financial services, flexible drawdown, Flumps, Government, Human Resources, Insurance, NEST, pension, Pension Regulator, pensions, Retirement
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Another year older..
I am not a year older – I am two years younger than I was five years ago – at least I’m two years further from retirement (relatively speaking). Continue reading
Pensions dead by 2050 – taking the Michael?
The Daily Telegraph, which through Richard Evans has started writing sharp and provocative articles on pensions, came out with a corker just before Christmas. I read it on the beach and nearly choked on my sangria! Here it is in … Continue reading
Posted in annuity, Australia, auto-enrolment, David Pitt-Watson, dc pensions, de-risking, defined aspiration, Henry Tapper blog, NEST, Payroll, pension playpen, pensions, Treasury, with-profits
Tagged Actuarial science, Business, Business and Economy, Christmas, corporate governance, corporate risk, Daily Telegraph, DC Comics, dc pensions, Employment, Financial literacy, Financial services, Government, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, Pension Poverty, pensions, Politics, Retirement, Saving, social media, Steve Webb
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More cobblers from investment experts on DC pensions
I am afraid I have to report yet more moronic thinking from the investment community showing their disconnect with the ways and means of everyday folk. Example one is from Lyxor, who used to be called Societe Generale until they screwed … Continue reading
Posted in auto-enrolment, Bankers, club pension, Consolation, dc pensions, defined aspiration, happiness, Liability Driven Investment, mallowstreet, NEST, pension playpen, pensions, Personal Accounts, Public sector pensions, with-profits
Tagged Business, City, Funds, Investing, Investment, Paul Black, pension, Pension fund
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Investing in the sunny uplands!
A common theme in my blogs is the frustration that people get stuck in the wrong kind of investments wrong in terms of charges, wrong in terms of management and wrong in terms of the suitability of the fund to a … Continue reading
