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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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Let’s play fantasy CIO at NEST!
NEST has invited all of us to play “fantasy CIO” and create a default investment strategy for its members to and through retirement. If you’re prepared to get to page 118 of the consultation paper, you are asked as question 18 … Continue reading
The future of retirement – Pension PlayPen responds to NEST
Why Pension PlayPen is responding Pension PlayPen is reluctantly responding to NEST’s consultation; reluctantly as we have been asked these questions before in a number of different guises. The report is long and so is this response. We are … Continue reading
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Tagged Actuarial science, annuity, auto enrolment, Business and Economy, CDC, corporate governance, corporate risk, dc pensions, de-risking, Financial services, Government, National Employment Savings Trust, NEST, pension, Pension new, pension playpen, pensions, Retirement, Steve Webb, twitter
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“An idealogical inexactitude” – A guest blog by Eamonn O’Connor
As the election season is in full swing, some reflections on the ideological conflict inherent in the pension changes in the air for 2015. From April, we will see the abolition of compulsory annuity purchase and, with it, the introduction … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, Business and Economy, CDC, city noble, corporate risk, dc pensions, de-risking, Eamonn O'Connor, Financial services, NEST, Pension Freedoms, pensions, Retirement, Steve Webb
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What’s this about selling your annuity?
Steve Webb’s latest idea that the Government will encourage the sale and purchase of life annuities is not as crazy as it sounds. Indeed the practice is commonplace in the USA where many court awards are granted as an income … Continue reading
Hats off to all workplace pension providers
I’ve referred earlier this week to an excellent article by Kim North in Money Marketing in which she points to the ongoing work Scottish Widows have been doing on the participation of women in workplace pensions. In the same … Continue reading
Posted in FCA, NEST, Retirement
Tagged Aegon, Aviva, BlackRock, Business, Business and Economy, CDC, Financial services, Financial Services Authority, Friends Life, Government, L&G, London, NEST, pension, Pension new, pension playpen, Pension Regulator, pensions, Politics, Prudential, Retirement, Royal London, Scottish Life, Standar Life, Steve Webb, workplace Pensions, Zurich
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Pensions for start-ups – you having a laugh?
Well “no” actually! This article sets out to explain why even the youngest of companies should be planning for pensions. Pension planning isn’t top of the list for entrepreneurs, most hope their business will become their pension. But there are good … Continue reading
Posted in accountants, advice gap, auto-enrolment, Payroll, pension playpen, pensions, Pensions Regulator, Start ups
Tagged auto enrolment, auto-enrolment.DWP.Paul Johnson, Business, Business and Economy, corporate governance, dc pensions, Employment, entrepreneurs, Financial services, National Employment Savings Trust, pensions, Retirement, start-ups
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Block and delete – the only way to deal with “FROZEN PENSION. CO .UK
Today I took the unusual step (for me) of blocking and deleting John Adam of IM Consultants who trades through http://www.frozenpensions.co.uk and wants to unlock your pension to invest it in Brazilian rainforests and other investment scams. The disclaimer on … Continue reading