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Tag Archives: Aviva
Double-barreled female success!
It’s been a good week for strong women, Westminster has one more female MP and Sarah and Emma have topped the pension appointment pages. They are contemporaries of mine and two people whose company I enjoy, they are showing that … Continue reading
The money behind annuities “matters” too!
We tend to forget that a very large amount of the money yet to be paid as pensions , is backed by funds held by insurers and that money is invested, not just in gilts but in a wide variety … Continue reading
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Tagged annuity, Aviva, Canada Life, ESG, Just, L&G, retirement line, Scottish Widows
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Putting our money where their mouth is? We’re not there yet!
Last night I had the chance to listen to the Lord Mayor’s lecture – organised by Gresham College which is a few yards from where I live. If this had happened last year, I would not have been invited or … Continue reading
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Tagged Aviva, Fidelity, Gresham College, Hargreaves Lansdown, Interactive Investor, L&G, Lord Mayor, Lord Mayor's Show, Mark Carney, Pension Bee, Standard Life
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Can the private sector be trusted to pay us a “living pension”?
I’ve advertised the forthcoming report from the Resolution Foundation on this blog before. I’m pleased to see that it will be discussed by a notable panel later today and I hope that a recording of the session will be circulated … Continue reading
“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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Aviva’s IGC – more effective than its report suggests
Aviva’s IGC has turned up and you can preview it here (it launches properly Monday) It’s available as a PDF you can download here or you can read a digital version Having read both, I’d suggest that the PDF works … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, age wage, auto-enrolment, IGC, pensions
Tagged Aviva, Colin richardson, digital, IGC, Investment, Money, Risk, value
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Pension Plowman’s guide to 2020 IGC reports
This is a big year for IGCs. It is their fifth birthday, it’s the year when the FCA reviews their effectiveness and it’s the year of the pandemic, where providers and savers will be under maximum strain. Most of the … Continue reading
Posted in FCA, IGC, pensions
Tagged Aegon, Aviva, BlackRock, FCA, Fidelity, Hargreaves Lansdown, IGC, IGC report, L&G, Pensions, Phoenix, Prudential, Reassure, Royal London, Scottish Widows, SJP, Standard Life, Virgin Monday, workplace Pensions, Zurich
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Do we long-term care?
There’s an elderly care crisis in the UK. Action must be taken now, or the country’s ability to look after elderly people will collapse by 2029. Our report with @cebr_uk looks at why this has happened, and what we can … Continue reading
Posted in actuaries, advice gap, age wage, annuity, Consolation, pensions
Tagged Aviva, Care annuity, Irwinn Mitchell, Just, Legal & General, long term care, pension annuity, pensions
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Could workplace defaults give best value for money?
The results from our first 100 retirement savers are in and our test group averaged 54/100 on their outcomes. Some of the people who did best are in workplace pensions , including a friend from Port Talbot who has got … Continue reading
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Tagged AgeWage, Aviva, LGIM, NEST, pension funds
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How green is my workplace pension?
I hadn’t thought of Grant Thornton as thought leaders in pensions. On Friday I met with an old friend – Sandy Trust to talk about value for money. Well that’s what I thought we’d talk about- but Sandy – canny … Continue reading
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Tagged Aviva, Grant Thornton, L&G, NEST, NOW, pensions, People's Pension, Sandy Trust
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