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Tag Archives: Commission
5 good reasons we have SJP
As readers of the Times know, James Coney has been exposing St James’s Place as a high pressure sales outfit that rewards its “advisers” with diamond cufflinks, overseas conventions and a lot of money for bringing client’s money under SJP … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, pensions
Tagged Commission, Fees, pensions, SJP, St James Place, wealth tax
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Commission – the charge that dare not speak its name.
I feel like someone walking to a destination with a blindfold on, I am getting information from my phone but it is intermittent and there are many obstacles that I stumble over as I walk along. Thankfully, there are people … Continue reading
Posted in BSPS, dc pensions, Financial Conduct Authority, pensions
Tagged BBC, Commission, FCA, IFA, pensions, Transparency
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Who moved my cliche? The sorry state of the “employee benefits market”
I was suffeciently underwhelmed by the “vibrant employee benefits live exhibition” last week to stay just 20 minutes. Bearing in mind the Boris Bike ride from the City to Kensington Olympia, this represented a poor return on my time. … Continue reading
Posted in pensions
Tagged benefits, cheese, Commission, Compensation, Corporate, employee benefits, employee benefits live, platforms, reward, Technology
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So what would a pension exit charge cap look like?
Yesterday I spoke on Money Box in support of a cap on exit fee penalties from legacy personal pensions. Claire Trott spoke well in opposition and I’m quite sure that the ABI will take comfort in her argument that a … Continue reading
Posted in actuaries, dc pensions, Pension Freedoms, pensions, Pensions Regulator
Tagged ABI, advice, Commission, exit fees, exit penalties, FCA, legacy, pension, Regulator, TPR
2 Comments
Would you buy a recovering alcoholic a large vodka?
Offering IFAs the prospect of commission is akin to running a meeting of alcoholics anonymous in a pub. Continue reading
Posted in pensions
Tagged advice, Business, Business and Economy, Commission, IFA, IFAs, Paul Lewis, Pension new, pensions, RDR, Retail Distribution Review, Retirement
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Helping employers with pensions – you don’t have to be an IFA!
Since RDR in January 2013, the number of IFAs operating in Britain has more than halved from 50 to 24,000. The ban on commission or its sibling “consultancy charging” has made it all but impossible for IFAs to make money … Continue reading
The forgotten victims of commission
While the arguments about the abolition of commission for auto-enrolment pensions (from April 2016) are clear-cut, the fate of policies which aren’t used for auto-enrolment – isn’t. This is particularly the case for commission based occupational pension schemes. This week, … Continue reading
Is commission really dying?
There has been nothing that has so harmed the image of pensions over the past thirty years as the deception of commission. I don’t want to use phrases such as “lack of transparency” or words like “opacity” words like these … Continue reading
Posted in annuity, Payroll, pension playpen, pensions
Tagged advisers, annuity, auto enrolment, Business, Commission, DWP, FCA, Freedoms, Human Resources, pension, Pension new, pension playpen, pensions, Retirement, the deception
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Dear Government- “Five do’s, five don’ts” – #pensions
For those slipping quietly into retirement in the UK the political promises are about the revaluation of your state benefits, the payment of your winter allowance and the tax treatment of your savings and income. Whatever you have done or not … Continue reading
Posted in pensions
Tagged annuity, auto enrolment, Business, Commission, DWP, Employment, exempt, Government, Greg McClymont, Leonard Cohen, Life Time Allowance, LTA, Minister Webb, National Employment Savings Trust, NEST, Pension new, pension playpen, pensions, Retirement, retirement income, retirement savings, Steve Webb, tax relief, VAT
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