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Tag Archives: AMC
Buying our funds the Ottoman way. What British investors can learn from Turkey.
Last week at a meeting of the Transparency Task Force, I listened to Dr Chris Sier talk of his work in Turkey, understanding how that country’s regulators are getting to grips with fund costs and charges and ensuring that fund … Continue reading
Posted in pensions
Tagged AMC, Funds, Management charges, Transparency Task Force, TTF
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How safe is your workplace pension?
The opportunity to improve pension fund charging. Let us pause for a moment and consider what we are buying into when we set up a workplace pension for our staff. On the face of it, nobody enrolled into a workplace … Continue reading
Auto-enrolment – matching payrolls to pensions.
The big payroll/pension issue There are, according to one payroll software development we have spoken to, 42 separate interfaces between payroll and HR and the various workplace pension providers. Not all payrolls are prepared to build processes to accommodate each … Continue reading
Posted in dc pensions, Payroll, pensions, Pensions Regulator
Tagged Actuarial science, AMC, auto enrolment, corporate governance, corporate risk
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Fund management’s like a car-boot, you’ve got to know what you’re paying (and what you’re buying).
Fund management’s like a car-boot, you’ve got to know what you’re paying (and what you’re buying). Continue reading
Posted in auto-enrolment, Bankers, brand, Farefail, Financial Education, First Actuarial, FSA, hedge funds, infrastucture, investment, London, Management, middleware, NEST
Tagged AMC, Business, Business and Economy, charges, costs, dc pensions, Defined benefit pension plan, DWP, Employment, Financial services, Government, National Employment Savings Trust, NEST, pension, Pension Regulator, pensions, Retirement, Steve Webb, TER, Total Charge
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The death bell tolls for commission –
Another step on the hard road to pensions decency Continue reading
What a charge cap would mean for insurers
the Embedded Value write offs if the cap comes in at 0.5% will be in the £bns Continue reading
Risk-sharing starts with cost-sharing
This lunchtime we will be debating pension charges at the Pension Play Pen lunch (50 Cornhill). This blog may help in organising my thinking and perhaps your thinking too! The terms of the debate about the charges cap that the … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, auto-enrolment, dc pensions, pensions
Tagged AMC, DC Comics, pension, PQM, Standard Life, Steve Webb, Towers Watson, United States
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Pensions for nothing and advice for free
Insurers will reconsider their options on schemes where commission is paid but no advice is delivered Continue reading
Posted in auto-enrolment, investment, NEST, pensions
Tagged AMC, Consultant, Employment, Financial services, Insurance, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, Trail commission
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Commission – an unwanted risk.
Remaining in denial only defers and increases risk. Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, pensions
Tagged AMC, Consultant, DWP, Government, GPP, John McCririck, OFT, pension
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