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Tidings of great joy from the ICAEW
Auto-enrolment is a worry to accountants. Estimates are pretty consistent that around two thirds of all employers staging auto enrolment will look to accountants for compliance with auto-enrolment regulations and help with choosing and setting up a workplace pension. Unfortunately … Continue reading
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Creative Pension Trust? – don’t ask me!
Industry gossip or genuine cause for concern? A number of conversations I had at yesterday’s Capacity Crunch conference at the Friends of Auto-Enrolment focussed on the febrile finances of master trust arrangements. In particular, the arrangement between the trustees and … Continue reading
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Tagged accountants, auto enrolment, Creative Pension Trust, due diligence, pension playpen, practice, Risk
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People’s Pension announces one-off fee – world comes to an end!
If you were to read some of the reactions to the announcement yesterday by People’s Pension that they would be charging employers either £500 or £300 to set up a pension with them, you’d think that some intermediaries had just … Continue reading
“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
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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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Is auto-enrolment any more than a tax?
Speaking in Birmingham last week, former pension minister Steve Webb, commented on how hard it will be to raise the bar on employer auto-enrolment contributions from the current 1% of band earnings to 3% "Anything to get AE pension contributions … Continue reading
Two thirds of SMEs are pension virgins.
New research is out on the purchasing intentions of the remaining 1.2m employers who aren’t “in” to auto-enrolment. Of the SMEs surveyed who are yet to stage, two thirds (66%) don’t have any existing pension arrangements for their staff while … Continue reading
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Tagged accountants, advice, annuity, auto enrolment, Business, choice, Defined benefit pension plan, DWP, Employment, Guidance, pension, Pension new, pension playpen, Pension Regulator, pensions, Retirement, Steve Webb, The Pension Regulator, TPR
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When will we ever learn?
There are no short-cuts in pensions, there are no silver bullets, easy answers, no lottery wins, no free alpha. There’s just a lot of hard saving backed up by good governance , cost control and sound investment strategy. Pete Seeger, … Continue reading
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Can advisers make money from auto-enrolment?
Almost every day I get a call from an advisory firm having trouble recovering costs from advising on auto-enrolment. The problems are less to do with pricing than getting paid. |I’ve been thinking about all the issues that we’ve had … Continue reading
Wish us luck as we Pitch to be Britain’s top micro-employer!
Today’s the day we pitch to be Britain’s top micro-enployer at the Paintworks in Bristol. We are one of 30 employers left in the competition, one of 20 actively trading- we have a 5% chance of winning! But that … Continue reading
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Tagged #Pitch14, accountants, auto enrolment, Business, dc pensions, Employment, Financial services, Government, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, pension playpen, pensions, Pitch 14, Retirement, Sift, Steve Webb, the Pitch
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Can accountants ignore workplace pensions?
While all the noise is about the risks of employers not fulfilling their duties to set up and establish the processes to make “auto-enrolment” happen, the point of auto-enrolment, which is of course to deliver decent income for staff in … Continue reading
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Tagged accountancy, Accountancyweb, accountants, Business, DWP, Employment, FCA, Human Resources, National Employment Savings Trust, pensions, Retirement
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