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Category Archives: workplace pensions
Judging your workplace pension (by saver outcomes)
Defaqto has produced an important piece of work for financial advisers wanting to help employers get to know their workplace pension. You can access it via this link (there is a little signing up to do to get there) As … Continue reading
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Tagged defaqto, IGC, Performance, Risk, risk adjusted, Sharpe, sortino, trustee, workplace Pensions
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Holy Pentechola! It’s Scam Man & Robbin’
Four of the UK’s leading digital pension platforms have collaborated to create an engaging new online game that aims to educate consumers about pension scams in response to a spike in online fraud. The launch of Scam Man & Robbin’ follows … Continue reading
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Posted in age wage, pensions, social media, workplace pensions
Tagged AgeWage, nutmeg, Pension Bee, pensions, Scam Man, Scam Man and Robbin, scamming, Smart
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We can have venturous investment within the pension charge cap
I’m a big fan of the British Business Bank (BBB) which helps start-ups like AgeWage organise the money to get them up and running and helps them grow. I’m also a fan of their idea of making workplace pension work … Continue reading
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Tagged AgeWage, Charge cap, pensions, workplace Pensions
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A “pension free” press?
I’m not surprised by news that the PPF has referred the pre-pack of Johnston Press to the Pensions Regulator. While reassuring members that such a referral doesn’t impact their rights to be in the lifeboat, PPF are asking whether the … Continue reading
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Tagged free press, johnston press, pension free press, pensions
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The human cost of marking our pensions to the market
The debate at the CSFI mid week between Norma Cohen and John Ralfe on one side and Jon Spain and Dennis Leech on the other – seems to have focussed on the economics of pensions. I’d like to widen … Continue reading
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Posted in dc pensions, pensions, Pensions Regulator, Popcorn Pensions, workplace pensions
Tagged CDC, CSFI, DB, dc, John Ralfe, Mark to Market, Norma Cohen, pensions
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How to run a pension at 1/30th the cost of the pension charge cap.
How much does it cost to actively manage Alecta, Sweden’s largest workplace pension provider? The answer, according to Magnus Billing – is 0.024% of the funds assets each year. That’s less than 1/30th of the 0.75% cap imposed by … Continue reading
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Tagged Alecta, Charge cap, IGC, master trust, NEST, Value for Money, workplace Pensions
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John Kay – practical solutions to the FCA’s problems – please!
Passive management must be valued In a lukewarm response to the FCA’s Asset Management Market study, John Kaye comments. Greater transparency of charges will do little harm, but will also make little difference. Those customers who do focus on price … Continue reading
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Tagged Active management, FCA, ft, John Kay, passive management
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DB pension heading for the PPF? – Read this!
Here are some things you didn’t know about the Pension Protection Fund (PPF). If you are in a pension scheme heading in that direction you should read this! While most people think it would be an unmitigated disaster to see … Continue reading
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Tagged BHS, BSPS, ppf, tata, TPR, workplace
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Snap elections – people – and policy! #GE17
Snapping people The cost of a snap general election will be highest for the politicians, their advisers and their families who lose their livelihoods on June 8th. It is tough on MPs, especially those who joined since the 5 year term … Continue reading
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Of nuclear deterrents, sledgehammers and nuts – (DWP Select on DB)
The 90 page report on the state of our defined benefit pension schemes is published this morning. From first to last it is the work of Frank Field, it begins with BHS and ends with BHS, the confrontation with Philip … Continue reading
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Tagged Derek Benstead, DWP, FABI, Frank Field, knee jerk, Nut, ppf, Sledgehammer
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