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Pension PlayPen teams up with aeExchange
Pension PlayPen has teamed up with Juan Ho’s aeEchange to provide a holistic service for employers struggling with auto-enrolment. Many tens of thousands of employers have already benefited from Ho’s software. Remarkably Payroo, which provides an integrated payroll payment and … Continue reading
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Tagged Able, advice, auto enrolment, auto-enroment, Company, corporate risk, Juan Ho, Martin Lewis, Payroll, Payroo AEexchange, pension playpen, RTI
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Why Corbynism is radical (and what it means for pensions)
The most tweeted action of Corbyn’s first 24 hours as Labour leader was to choose to go to a constituency engagement rather than go on the Andrew Marr show. For Labour apparatchnick schooled in two decades of Blairite PR and … Continue reading
Posted in consultant, pensions, Pensions Regulator, Politics
Tagged advice, Andrew Marr, British politicians, Chris Siers, Con Keating, corporate risk, David Pitt-Watson, dc pensions, Financial services, George Kirrin, Government, Hilary Salt, Jeremy Corbyn, John Mcdonnell, Labour, Labour leader, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, Pension new, pension playpen, Pension Regulator, pensions, Retirement, Ros Altmann
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Mastertrusts – an accident waiting to happen?
How do we pay for pensions? We still know too little about what we are paying for pensions. The following statement appears on Standard Life’s website Employers can be confident that their schemes will all be compliant with the charge … Continue reading
Linked In’s no website for old men!
Yeats wrote that Byzantium was no country for old men. He was right, according to the Daily Express, we are all on linked in leering at young girl’s profiles. It looks like the poem should get re-written for young women … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, Byzantium, corporate governance, corporate risk, Employment, Linked in, no country for old men, old men, pensions, sailing to Byzantium, WB Yeats, young women
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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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Michael Johnson and the Super ISA
This is the latest from tax and pensions supremo – Michael Johnson. Love it or hate it – the pensions ISA or Super ISA as Michael calls it- looks set to dominate our thinking over the next few months … Continue reading
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Tagged corporate risk, dc pensions, EET, ISA, Michael Johnson, pension playpen, Pension Regulator, pensions, Politics, Retirement, super-ISA, tax relief, TEE, Treasury
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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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Is increasing complexity making pension saving harder ? – guest blog by Ralph Frank.
The most conclusive finding of a recent survey by PwC into pensions taxation was not even related to the respondents’ views on the central question of the survey (namely, the most appealing tax scenario for their pension)! Sixty percent of … Continue reading
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Tagged Actuarial science, advice, ageing, complexity, corporate risk, dc pensions, de-risking, Government, knor, PWC, Retail Distribution Review, Saving, Treasury
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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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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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