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The markets are back but the damage is done.
There are those who thrive on the ups and downs of the stock market; high frequency traders take fractional advantage of moves up and down and like wind farms, make most when it’s stormy. You can buy and sell this … Continue reading
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Tagged annuity, auto enrolment, Business, CDC, China, collectives, corporate governance, corporate risk, damage, dc pensions, Defined benefit pension plan, Financial services, Government, income drawdown, Paul Lewis, Pension new, pension playpen, pensions, Retirement, The Great Fall of China
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Auto-enrolment – now get stuck in!
Auto-enrolment is 3 years old but the real fun only starts here. In the coming quarter, we will be preparing for the big spikes in staging that begin in January 2016. Whether you are an accountant, work in a payroll … Continue reading
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Tagged annuity, auto enrolment, Business, corporate governance, dc pensions, DWP, Ease, Employment, Financial services, L&G, Legal & General, pension, pension playpen, pensions, worksave, worksave pension play
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MUTINY AT THE BOUNTY!
Yesterday was a shocker! As many of you know, (from first hand experience), I spend much of the summer driving my boat and guests up and down the Thames. Yesterday was no exception. What made yesterday different, was my … Continue reading
Disruption – is how social media regulates
In the context of Business continuity management, Disruption is an event which causes an “unplanned, negative deviation from the expected delivery … according to the organization’s objectives”. In this blog, I argue that disruption is part of the governance process … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, auto-enrolment, Payroll, smelly
Tagged Business, Business and Economy, corporate governance, corporate risk, dc pensions, Disruption, Employment, Financial services, negative, pension, pension playpen, Pension Regulator, pensions, Politics, RDR, regulation, Retirement, South West Trains, Steve Webb
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Come on Sage – you can and should do better!
Sage are a great British success story. Over the past 20 years they have become pre-eminent as a payroll software supplier and latterly a portal for a range of back-office business solutions. Www.pensionplaypen.com is itself a business customer, using SagePay … Continue reading
What employers can do to get their members better pensions
Yesterday I had a chance to talk with a large employer about what they can do to help improve the outcomes of their DC plans. Influencing employees to get the best out of their pension savings means getting them to … Continue reading
Posted in Payroll, Pension Freedoms, pension playpen, pensions, Pensions Regulator, Popcorn Pensions
Tagged Actuarial science, advice, annuity, auto enrolment, Business, Business and Economy, choice, corporate governance, corporate risk, dc, dc pensions, Financial services, Good governance, governance, Greg Broomer, investment decisions, Johnson Fleming, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, Pension new, pension playpen, pensions, Retirement, Steve Webb
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“We all defer together?” – Guest Blog from Ralph Frank
The recently announced consultation on pensions tax relief has stirred up thought and debate on the issue of incentivising long-term saving. There are theoretical, commercial and practical aspects to be addressed in this process of defining an approach to pensions … Continue reading
The transfer mess gets worse…
It’s been some weeks since I wrote about transfers. To recap, I have been predicting a seizure in the transfer market , resulting from high demand, low-advisory capacity and pipes blocked with regulatory effluent. So it doesn’t come as a … Continue reading
Posted in Treasury, trustee
Tagged Actuarial science, advice, annuity, auto enrolment, Business, corporate governance, Financial Services Authority, London, Pension Poverty, Pension Protection Fund, Pension Regulator, pension transfers, pensions, Politics, public sector, Public Sector Pensions, Retirement
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Don’t you -forget about DB – guest blog from the TUC
This blog is written by Tim Sharp of the TUC, thanks to Hilary Salt for pointing it out and for Tim and the TUC for allowing us to republish it! It is easy to overlook defined benefit (DB) pension schemes … Continue reading
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Tagged Actuary, advice, annuities, auto enrolment, Business and Economy, CDC, charges, corporate governance, Dutch
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Why “pensions ISAs” must be more than ISAs
Ros Altmann has recently commented that simply topping up ISAs and calling them “Pension ISAs” is not going to help solve our long-term retirement problems. The danger of using the ISA structure is that it ignores the fundamentals- that people … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, CDC, corporate governance, corporate risk, dc pensions, DWP, Financial services, HRC, ISA, ISAs, pension, Pension new, pension playpen, pension savings, Retirement, Ros Altmann, Savings, tax relief, TPR, Treasury
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