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“Dragging pensions out of the digital stone age”
New data today. Record numbers are using the internet. Record numbers are also investing in pensions. You’d never know. We must drag pensions out of the digital stone age. https://t.co/j3To2IpsmP pic.twitter.com/T4XErS6jqo — Alistair McQueen (@HelloMcQueen) August 7, 2020 I was … Continue reading
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Tagged Alastair McQueen, API, Aviva, internet, pensions
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What makes for a “progressive” pension provider?
“Progressive” and “pensions” are not synonymous, the words fuse into an oxymoron and ribaldry ensues. I spoke to an insurer last year who introduced me to the concept of “last mover advantage” which involves a large organisation sitting by and … Continue reading
Finding our pensions
In a vigorous debate at DWP HQ, two quite different approaches to finding pensions emerged. This blog helps people to understand what the debate is about and why it matters to everyone. It matters because there is some £20bn. … Continue reading
Posted in Dashboard, pensions
Tagged API, Dashboard, DWP, open pensions, Origo, Pension Bee, pensions
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#pensionsdashboardsummit – it could be feisty!
I’ll be off on a Boris Bike to Marble Arch in a moment to the Pension Dashboard Summit at the Arum Hotel. From the opening session , which pitches Chris Sier together with L&G supremo Chris Clarke, this looks … Continue reading
Posted in age wage, Pension Freedoms, pension playpen, pensions
Tagged #pensiondashboardsummit, API, CMA, Dashboard, DWP, pension, Pension Dashboard, pensions
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Standard Life- welcome to Sage’s digital “Data Exchange”!
I’m very pleased to see Standard Life’s announcement that its “Good to go” proposition is now part of Sage’s Data Exchange initiative. The news grabs headlines in the Scotsman and it should be headline news down south as well! Employer’s … Continue reading
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Tagged API, auto enrolment, Business, Marketing, pensions, Sage, Sage 50, Standard Life, Technology, workplace pension
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NEST is not auto-enrolment
I went to a talk yesterday by a former shadow cabinet minister of state for the DWP. It was under Chatham House rules so I can’t tell you which one – it doesn’t matter which one – it matters … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, auto-enrolment, pensions
Tagged API, auto enrolment, choice, dumbing down, lawyers, litigation, NEST, pensions, Technology, The Pensions Regulator, workplace Pensions
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The pernicious effect of NEST’s market distortion
Yesterday I wrote about the unsatisfactory outcome of an industry discussion with NEST. The PLSA debate on mastertrusts at their annual conference failed to properly engage with NEST’s ongoing role in the UK pensions market and the ambiguity of its … Continue reading
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Tagged API, auto enrolment, DWP, Helen Dean, NEST, Otto Thoresen, pension playpen, pensions, pensionsync, Strategy, Technology, TPR
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Will Lovegrove – a true hero of auto-enrolment
For ages, I’ve been banging on about improving the effeciency of how we manage auto-enrolment. But it was only when I met Will, that I understood how to do it. Sitting on the Papdis group (albeit as an enthusiastic observor), … Continue reading
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Tagged API, auto enrolment, Business, corporate governance, corporate risk, dc pensions, DWP, Employment, Financial services, Pension new, pension playpen, pensions, pensionsync, Systemsync
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Will auto-enrolment capacity get crunched?
Today is the day of the Friends of Auto-Enrolment Capacity Crunch Conference which takes place in PWC’s offices at Charing Cross. The big debates of the day will be about Whether there will be a capacity crunch either in … Continue reading
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Tagged AE, Andy Agethangelou, API, Business, CIPP, employers, FoAE, FofAE, Friends of Auto-Enrolment, Payroll, payroll administrator, payroll bureaux, payroll professional body, payroll software, Pension new, pension playpen, pensions, Ros Altmann, Steve Webb, Workplace Pensiions, workplace Pensions
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Everything’s a prototype – nothing on the web will last.
The way people think about websites has changed so much over the past three years. This morning I read an article called “web design is dead” in which the author, Sergio Nouvel (@shesho) argues that internet innovation has shifted from … Continue reading
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Tagged API, app, application, Business, content, dc pensions, Linked in, mobiles, pension, Pension new, pension playpen, pensions, Retirement, social media, Society, twitter, watch, watches, web-design, WordPress
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