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Tag Archives: auto enrolment
Life’s a beach for the BlackRock IGC
It’s a sure fine of things to come when an IGC report is promoted by a stock photo. This couple appear on most of the IGC reports I have read, I suspect they were scammed out of their pension and … Continue reading
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Tagged AE, Allan Whalley, auto enrolment, BlackRock, IGC, Investment, pensions, Value for Money
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Scottish Widows IGC – you can’t talk your way past Babloo
Scottish Widows have published their IGC report and it makes interesting reading. Babloo Ramamurthy, it’s chair, is a great believer in communication. You can tell by the number of instructions he gives to his provider to sort out its communications. In … Continue reading
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Tagged auto enrolment, babloo ramamurthy, IGC, Scottish Widows, workplace Pensions
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What I’ll be looking for from the 2018 IGC chair statements
2018 and all that It’s IGC reporting season again and I’ll be looking to have answers to four questions this year. So here are my questions (more hope than expectation). If you’re making a value for money, what … Continue reading
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Tagged auto enrolment, CDC, CETV, ESG, IGC, pensions, workplace Pensions
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Taking one for transparency!
My colleagues at First Actuarial will hate me for it – but I accepted an award from Mr Transparency – Andy Agethangelou, at the Transparency Task Force’s Auto-Enrolment event yesterday afternoon. The point was that 30 people got together with … Continue reading
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Tagged AE, Andy Agethangelou, auto enrolment, pensions, Transparency, TTF
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HMRC’s pension taxation; the Scottish question.
The HMRC’s position on pension taxation reached new heights of barminess last week, with its decision to let the new “19% Scottish taxpayers” receive 20% relief at source. This is Apparantly one of those problems that gets put in the too … Continue reading
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Tagged auto enrolment, HMRC, net-pay, pensions, relief at source, Scotlan, Scottish Income Tax
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The FCA can excel; the “non-workplace pension” paper’s a model of its kind
Henry Tapper and Pension PlayPen response to FCA’s paper DP18/1 Effective competition in non-workplace pensions This is the response of Henry Tapper and the Pension PlayPen. It is not a response on behalf of any other organisation that Henry Tapper … Continue reading
How certain are my client’s state benefits?
The old adage “there’s nothing certain except death and taxes”, sadly did not include pensions, not even the state pension. Behavioural science suggests that the further we look into the future , the more we crave the security of certainty. … Continue reading
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Tagged auto enrolment, death and taxes, Ferret, Gareth Morgan, pensions, state pension
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Other people’s money- other people’s lives.
I received this blog/testimony from Darren Jefferson, who many will know for his work in setting up auto-enrolment schemes over the past five years. The title’s my own, the words are his. Don’t take other people’s money for … Continue reading
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Tagged auto enrolment, Darren Jefferson, Leeds, Opt-out, pensions
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Aussie’s are “Super Pension Savvy” – why aren’t we?
As most people (in pensions) know, Australia has a thriving retirement savings industry that works because there is a social contract between Government, Unions and Employers to fund workers pensions at ever-increasing amounts. I don’t want to do a teach in – … Continue reading
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Tagged Ashes, Aussie, auto enrolment, dc, Savvy, Super, workplace Pensions
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