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A user’s guide to AgeWage.com

As regular readers will know,  I campaign for better information to be made available to savers about their pension pots and to help people understand their pot, have formed a company, AgeWage.  AgeWage.com helps people make sense of their pots … Continue reading

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Is value for money, the Standard by which we can make sense of pensions?

Although financial advisers do a great job and  advice usually provides value for the money it costs,  9 out of 10 British adults will take the key financial decisions about their retirement on their own. The FCA wants unadvised individuals … Continue reading

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Is value only in the eye of the beholder?

Yesterday’s blog on the capacity of “value” to simplify pensions has solicited some strong comment and a very interesting debate on linked in I am  interested in the comments of Simon Ellis who has been assessing value in funds For … Continue reading

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Pension Bee and the fintech annuity

Legal & General Retail Retirement has agreed a new partnership  to provide annuities to PensionBee customers. From 3rd August, customers enquiring about an annuity with PensionBee will be introduced to Legal & General for further information, or to get a … Continue reading

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Arsenal v Chelsea – what matters tonight is the result.

Tonight we have an FA Cup final. It may or may not be a great game but that’s not what Chelsea and Arsenal fans are worried about, they are worried about the score! The score will create an outcome, the … Continue reading

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How can pensions be giving savers VFM but not be dashboard ready?

  Outcomes for dough, portals for show! Over the weekend, I’ve been thinking about how I can judge the quality of service I receive from my pension provider. As a consumer there are a number of things I would like … Continue reading

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How Pension Providers become winners in a data driven world

Data requests are a key measure of  “quality of service”. This is a sister piece to my blog for pension consumers published here.  Under GDPR, consumers are entitled to their pension data in a timely fashion. In a test last … Continue reading

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AgeWage group hits 10,000 members

Marian Elliott and I had the idea of a linked in group for pension professionals in October 2009. Over the next decade it has grown from a playground where people could meet and do things off their own back to … Continue reading

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Workplace pensions fall short over “at-retirement support”

At Retirement Support (with its unfortunate acronym) is not high on workplace pension provider’s priority lists and this is reflected in this survey published by Pensions Expert in an article by Stephanie Hawthorne The survey, conducted by Broadridge, was of … Continue reading

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So what can our past performance tell us of the future?

Very excited by developments in @agewageuk scoring that are helping us understand the risks each saver experiences relative to all relevant risks members can take, more in weeks to come! — Henry Tapper (@henryhtapper) July 2, 2020 It is narcissistic … Continue reading

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