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Tag Archives: Costs and charges
For workplace pensions value for money means……..
One of the questions in the FCA’s consultation on value for money is whether its definition is ok or whether we can find a better one. This is our definition Pension value for money’s measured by the amount … Continue reading
Posted in pensions, Value for Money
Tagged Costs and charges, FCA, IGC, Money, Service, value, Value for Money, VFM
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Angela Eagle’s stunning Bill on pension costs and charges
Angela Eagle presented a bill to the House of Commons at 1.30 yesterday (Wednesday May 8th). It is a fine bill and I wish it success. It may not succeed under the current Government and may be no more than … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, pensions
Tagged AgeWage, Costs and charges, pensions, Value for Money, VFM
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Pensions “Shock and Awe”
Next week looks like being a big one for Pensions with the Pensions Minister summoning the dasboardistas to Westminster on Monday morning for the big reveal. This meeting is scheduled to last an hour and will mean I will be … Continue reading
Posted in alvin hall, pensions
Tagged ABI, Costs and charges, Frank Field, IA, lipkin, meech, pensions, PLSA, Transparency, Work and Pensions
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Is CDC “Flat World” – or “Flat Earth”?
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century is an international best-selling book by Thomas L. Friedman that analyzes globalization The Flat Earth model is an archaic conception of Earth’s shape as a plane or disk. Many … Continue reading
Posted in pensions
Tagged CDC, Costs and charges, Flat world, illiquidity, Lat earth, pensions, platform
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Con Keating on the Investment Association, Transparency and the Overton Window
Regular readers will be aware of my views on independent oversight of fund costs and charges. To me it’s critical to a reliable measure for Value for Money; without knowing we are getting value for money, how can we have … Continue reading
Posted in pensions
Tagged Con Keating, costs, Costs and charges, Overton window, pension, pensions, Prison, reputation, Transparency, Transparency Task Force, TTF
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Phoenix and its heroic IGC
Not a job for the boys Of all the duff jobs out there, being Chair of the Phoenix IGC must rank high in the pantheon. Phoenix is a shell company that over the years has acquired a number of life … Continue reading
Posted in IGC, pensions
Tagged Business, Chair, Costs and charges, David Hare, governance, IGC, Investment, pensions, Phoneix, Transparency, workplace Pensions
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Chris Hitchen’s plea to the FCA on transparency.
It’s good that the PLSA have published the speeches at its investment conference on youtube. Here is a debate started by a speech from Tracey McDermott of the FCA that generates some really useful discussion on “where the market is … Continue reading
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Tagged charges, costs, Costs and charges, Liquidity, PLSA, RPMI, Transparency, Transparency Task Force, TTF
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