Tag Archives: Business and Economy

Whose NEST is being feathered?

In everyday speak- the early phase NEST default investment approach is patronising nonsense and its only value is to NEST and Government Continue reading

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What really matters -DC outcomes

DC consulting concentrates on the hard things and misses the easy ones. What we need is a pragmatic, plain-speaking and pragmatic approach to DC pensions and that is exactly what we’ve decided to provide Continue reading

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Spend don’t save.

Let’s adopt a spend mentality to the future Continue reading

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Hapless man tries to buy a pension

A man walks into a shop, goes to the counter and asks the shopkeeper for a pension

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Is guidance good enough – FSA?

One of the consequences of the pensions mis-selling scandal of the 1990s has been a long tail of distrust between occupational trustees and their advisers and advisers regulated by the FSA. Continue reading

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This is Liverpool – this train terminates here

Another restatement, the gravy train has hit the buffers. Continue reading

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Whose (mis)taking my pension?

Sensational reporting is not helpful in getting people to save for retirement Continue reading

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The Pension Playpen

It embraces dullness as a mother embraces her child’s dirty nappy- as something to be disposed of. Continue reading

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Pension Comms- let’s get real

We need to get smart about how to talk to members and that goes as much for insurers as trustees. We need to get HR databases talking to pension databases and get members supplying the supra-communicators- the private mobile numbers, the private mailing addresses that allow pensions information to be delivered independently of work and consistently over time.
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A democratic Duty of Care

My confidence that a just and equitable setltlement will be reached is based on my unwavering belief in the value of British Society to deliver a fair solution. Continue reading

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