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Tag Archives: ABI
A tale of two cities – ABI and #TUCpensions
It was a straight choice. Pay £500 + VAT and hear the Treasury talk about financial services in Bishopsgate or Pay £0 + VAT and hear the DWP talk about pensions. It wasn’t a hard one. Guy Opperman , … Continue reading
Portals for show, pensions for dough
The Pension Dashboard is under pressure. Having lost its sponsor, Simon Kirby MP in this summer’s election, early-day momentum is running out. The ABI are clearly fed up and are now calling for Government intervention if they are to … Continue reading
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Tagged ABI, dc, DWP, Evestor, Neyber, PASA, Pension Bee, pensions, Pot follows member, state pension
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“Not ducking the big decisions?”
The ABI conference “Free to Retire” sounds like a showboating convention for the great and the good, or at least for the new DWP Ministerial team. We had been promised “big decisions” that wouldn’t be ducked by the new … Continue reading
A pensions dashboard brings its own risk.
A need for pension I am keen not to pour cold water on the pensions dashboard, but I am not having it promoted as the game-changer to savings behaviour. The pensions dashboard is what Martin Clarke, the Government Actuary, refers to … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, pensions
Tagged ABI, FinTech, GAD, Government, John Cridland, Martin Clarke, pension, Pensions Dashboard, Treasury
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The ABI goes FABI on claims!
Readers of this blog listening to the ABI’s Huw Evans on Wake up to Money, may have been spluttering into their tea and biscuits! The ABI are faced with a cut in the discount rate used to calculate compensation … Continue reading
Is there any “challenge” to this Pension Dashboard?
I was invited yesterday to the Treasury’s “Challenge Panel” , held to discuss the proposals for the pensions dashboard, a prototype of which will emerge next month. Actually, I wasn’t invited – I went in someone else’s place. I went … Continue reading
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Tagged ABI, challenge panel, Empowerment, HM Treasury, Pension Dashboard, Pension Freedoms, Treasury
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Insurers – VFM and the Competition Commission.
The FT Adviser magazine has published a short piece leaking a story that has been doing the rounds for a few weeks. It would appear that the insurers who have been subject to the scrutiny of an independent governance … Continue reading
Posted in IGC, pensions
Tagged ABI, competition commission, competiton, IGC, Insurers, pension, pensions, Sottish Widows, Standard Life, VFM
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How can IGCs engage people with their pensions?
There are three measures by which I am judging the IGC Chair reports Do they speak with a proper tone of voice Do they show themselves effective in dealing with the provider they are governing Have they properly addressed whether … Continue reading
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Tagged ABI, Business, Business and Economy, corporate governance, corporate risk, DWP, FCA, governance, IA, IGC, Insurers, National Employment Savings Trust, NEST, pension, Pension new, pension playpen, pensions, Ros Altmann, TPR, workplace Pensions
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The BBC-all at sea-on workplace pensions
As you must be interested in pensions, it’s worth taking a couple of minutes this morning to listen to minutes 8-15 of Radio 4’s World tonight (downloadable as a podcast). It’s a well researched and well produced article with a … Continue reading
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Tagged ABI, auto enrolment, BBC, Berkshire, pension, Pensions Regualtor, PLSA, Treasury, Workie, workplace Pensions, World tonight
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So what would a pension exit charge cap look like?
Yesterday I spoke on Money Box in support of a cap on exit fee penalties from legacy personal pensions. Claire Trott spoke well in opposition and I’m quite sure that the ABI will take comfort in her argument that a … Continue reading
Posted in actuaries, dc pensions, Pension Freedoms, pensions, Pensions Regulator
Tagged ABI, advice, Commission, exit fees, exit penalties, FCA, legacy, pension, Regulator, TPR
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