Tag Archives: Aon
Kevin Wesbroom rebuts Hargreaves Lansdown’s rubbishing of CDC
Hot on the heels of Kevin’s rebuttal of CIDC, here are his comments on Hargreaves Lansdown’s submission to the Work and Pensions select Committee. Kevin is writing in his capacity as a consultant for Aon. His comments are in … Continue reading
Less sales – more trustees please.
I was jogged out of my Friday night lethargy by this picture. Aon’s master trust has just been awarded a “Pension Quality Mark” by the PLSA. I find this picture quite disturbing. The pensions minister Guy Opperman (right) is featured … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, pension playpen, pensions
Tagged #PLSAANNUAL, Aon, mattingly, Mortimer, Nash, Opperman, pensions, PLSA, trust
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New torment for investment consultants – Mike Foster.
Mike is a senior consultant at Montfort Communications. Until recently he was assistant editor at Financial News and that journalistic pedigree shines through in this remarkable piece of writing. Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind … Continue reading
Posted in actuaries, advice gap, investment, pension playpen, pensions
Tagged Aon, De Montfort, FCA, investment consultant, Mercers, pensions, Willis Towers Watson
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Resistance is futile! The FCA give the bully boys their marching orders
For you Tommy zee war is over! So the investment consultants are to be marched off to Stalug Luft CMA, for prolonged interrogation and indefinite detainment. Happily I have no pretentions to be an investment consultant and so can … Continue reading
In denial and in disgust – investment consultants and the FCA.
I went to the Vuelio blogger awards last night, which was fun, young, female and loud. I learned that I am unusual in not making money out of my blog and that I could make this a mobile advertising platform for … Continue reading
Posted in investment, pensions
Tagged Aon, Aon Hewitt, FCA, in denial, in disgust, investment consultant, Mercer, Vuelio, Willis Towers Watson, WTW
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“Blindsided!”-investment consultants caught by FCA’s rabbit punch
Nobody saw it coming. I went to a conference of investment consultants earlier in the month, the FCA’s Market Review was not on the agenda of any of the day’s sessions. But the FCA’s proposal to make a MARKET INVESTIGATION REFERENCE … Continue reading
Posted in pensions
Tagged 2017, Actuary, Aon, defined benefit, FCA, first actuarial, Hymans Robertson, IGC, Innovation, LCP, Market Review, Mercer, pension, Technology, TPR, WTW
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Stop telling people what to do! (Michelle cracks the whip)
If you don’t know Michelle, then you should. She is the living, breathing soul of TPAS, an actuary who has forgotten how to be boring and a restorer of confidence in pensions. As the photos on this blog suggest – … Continue reading
Posted in actuaries, pensions
Tagged Actuary, Aon, Michelle Cracknell, pension playpen, Pension Wise, Pensions Wise, TPAS
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Who wants change? Who wants to change?
Pension Freedoms is not about people doing exactly what you want them to. It is about allowing people to do exactly what they want to do. Yesterday I commended the Aon DC member survey to anyone prepared to submit … Continue reading
Hope yet for AonHewitt
I oughtn’t to like Aon. Weirdly I do;- but in the kind of way that google likes the Encyclopedia Brittanica. Aon is an American owned consultancy that feeds the insatiable maw of Man United, it is becoming a fiduciary manager … Continue reading
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Tagged Aon, aonhewitt, Basic State Pension, CDC, Pension Freedoms, Yeovil Town, YTFC
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Vertically integrated mastertrusts? – “my arse!”
Pardon my Scouse! I throw Mick Royle at Mercer’s master trust (and the incipient Aon Hewitt master trust). “Vertical integration” is where the supply chain of a company is owned by that company. Mercer have set up a master trust where they … Continue reading
Posted in actuaries, advice gap, pensions, Retail Distribution Review
Tagged Aon, Commission, Consultancy Charge, Mastertrust, Mercer, RDR, Vertical integration
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