Tag Archives: Business and Economy
Money in auto-enrolment? – the jury’s out!
This morning and regularly over the next few weeks, I will be speaking at Money Marketing Auto-Enrolment invitational events around Britain. These are the slides that I will be using Advisers and auto enrolment from Henry Tapper It’s odd … Continue reading
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Tagged advice, auto enrolment, Business, Business and Economy, corporate governance, DWP, Employment, Financial services, Financial Services Authority, Guidance, Guidance Framework, IFA, Insurance, pension, Pension new, pension playpen, pensions, Retirement, Steve Webb
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How challenging? We are IGC
I love it when you get “Pension News” from a lawyer. The latest gem comes from Pinsent Masons, who reveal that the FCA expects Independent Governance Committees to challenge insurance companies. This is what I call a “not news” story … Continue reading
Posted in governance, pensions
Tagged Business, Business and Economy, Charlie, corporate governance, corporate risk, dc pensions, Defined benefit pension plan, Financial services, governance, I am Charlie, IGC, Insurance, National Employment Savings Trust, pensions, Retirement, Steve Webb
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Are workplace pensions “risk-free” to employers?
If you think workplace savings plans are “risk free” to employers – think again; “value for money” changes that Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, Bankers, consultant, dc pensions, Fiduciary Management, First Actuarial, pension playpen, pensions, Retail Distribution Review, Retirement
Tagged Business, Business and Economy, Canada, CDC, Colin Ripsman, corporate governance, corporate risk, dc, dc pensions, de-risking, decumulation, Defined benefit pension plan, Defined Contribution, Eckler Ltd, Employment, Financial services, Pension new, pension playpen, pensions, Plan sponsors, Retirement, retirement income, Steve Webb, workplace Pensions
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“what should tell the staff?” Pension PlayPen Lunch today!
Every first business Monday of the month, the Pension Play Pen Linked In group meet in the Partners Room of the Counting House in Cornhill to discuss pressing issues of the day. True to form, we meet today (Monday … Continue reading
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Tagged advice, Business, Business and Economy, corporate governance, Employment, financial education, Financial services, Guidance, Mark Scantlebury, pension, Pension Freedoms, Pension new, pension playpen, Pension Wise, pensions, Politics, Retirement, Steve Webb, workplace
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The enormous importance of Legal and General
If one insurer has done more than any other for workplace pensions it is Legal & General. For early stagers like Marks & Spencer they opened a master trust , they were the first insurer to adopt clean 50bps … Continue reading
De-risking strategy found in pocket of comatose trustee
The Pension Plowman rifling through the pockets of a trustee lying in the gutter following an all night pension celebration , has found too documents, the first a copy of Corporate Adviser the full text of which can be … Continue reading
What do I do with my defined benefit pension?
Many people have defined benefit rights (commonly called “frozen pensions”). Some people continue to build up defined benefit pension rights, most are in Government backed schemes. A large number of people are enjoying pensions from theses defined benefit schemes. … Continue reading
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Tagged annuity, Business, Business and Economy, cash commutation, defined benefit, defined benefit pension rights, DWP, Employment, Financial services, Financial Services Authority, Government, National Employment Savings Trust, occupational pension, occupational pensions, partial transfer values, pension, Pension Advisory Service, Pension new, pension playpen, pension rights, pensions, Retirement, state pensions, Transfer values
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How did IFAs end up payroll experts?
In 2011 I started getting interested in payroll. Having read the automatic enrolment regulations it seemed I’d have to if my firm was to help employers. In 2012 and 2013 and 2014 I was named among the top 50 … Continue reading
Get your BR19 as your first step to being “Pension Wise”
Treasury now in charge of “Pension Wisdom”. Another Monday, another set of pension headlines. The Treasury announce that the Guidance Guarantee is no more and hereafter the delivery mechanism for the help we’ll be getting at retirement will be called … Continue reading
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Tagged Actuarial science, annuity, auto enrolment, BR19, Business and Economy, CDC, DWP, Financial services, Freedoms, Guidance, Guidance Guarantee, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, Pension Freedomd, Pension new, pension playpen, Pension Poverty, Pension Regulator, Pension Wise, pensions, Retirement, Steve Webb, Treasury
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