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Doubt cast over ownership credentials of US insurer buying-out UK pensions
Apollo Exposed: Athene Stories reinforce concern either side of the Atlantic about private equity taking over insurers on a dubious basis. We know the outcome in terms of UK Pensions; PIC and Just have recently been bought into by US … Continue reading
Can we bring DB back? Not it seems without the permission of the ABI.
For many years we have been led to believe that the only good DB scheme has a bulk annuity inside it and it’s on the way to being bought out. I was in hospital for the shockwaves of Pension IHT … Continue reading
Pension freedoms don’t work for the dead, pensions are for the living!
I come at the issue rather differently than Ros who is keen on protecting retirement wealth as a haven for those with inheritance tax problems. Well I don’t think this is top of the list of Government priorities despite there … Continue reading
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Tagged annuity, pension freedom, Ros Altmann, Sir Steve Webb, Steve Webb
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There’s no VFM measure for pensions; ordinary folk are baffled by “CETV”.
This blog is a reminder to me of the lack of understanding people had and have of pension value for their money. This is not a criticism of people, it is a comment on the failure of the organisations that … Continue reading
Paul Todd of NEST- 10.30 am – this morning – joining link here.
You are cordially invited to join our next Coffee Morning THIS MORNING at which Paul Todd, COO of NEST will be talking and answering our questions. If you want to understand where Nest is coming from, press the button on … Continue reading
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Paul Todd explains Nest’s approach to paying pensions
You are cordially invited to join our next Coffee Morning at which Paul Todd, COO of NEST will be talking and answering our questions. If you want to understand where Nest is coming from, press the button on the you … Continue reading
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DWP engaged with pensions! Or is it back to annuities again?
I found myself in a room yesterday in a windowless room in the DWP’s Caxton House arguing for value for my money with three senior civil servants. I know all three well, have grown up with them over the last … Continue reading
FCA’s Financial Lives on the smart decumulators and their advisors (pt 10)
It’s a tough agenda as since the introduction of Pension Freedoms in 2015 the behaviour of savers has included cashing in the pot as well as drawing down cash, swapping from an annuity and using the pot as an insurance … Continue reading
Paying to people who are alive today and will be alive next century
I have a very mystified CEO concerned that a pension scheme should be looking to pay pensions beyond the life expectancy of him and presumably his pension executive/trustee Let me give you a worked example from a real member of … Continue reading
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Tagged AgeWage, annuity, Business, dc pensions, Government, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, pension playpen
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Why are local LGPS costs so mad? – Toby Nangle explains!
At some stage over the emotional past three days, I submitted an attempt to win a WTW journalistic award. I know I won’t win it but I do think that people who make an effort to explain themselves , have … Continue reading