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Julius Pursaill calls on DC “pensions” to get their act together (today 10.30)

Julius will be speaking at today’s Pension PlayPen . There’s a link here to take a coffee break with him. Discuss how DC “pension schemes” could pull their socks up. Continue reading →

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Julius Pursaill calls on DC “pensions” to get their act together (tomorrow 10.30)

Julius will be speaking at tomorrow’s Pension PlayPen . There’s a link here to take a coffee break with him. Discuss how DC “pension schemes” could pull their socks up. Continue reading →

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Are we customers, Troy? Will we decide how to turn pots to pensions?

The customers for workplace pension schemes are the people who take the decisions. As Sam Seaton points out in her recent podcast for CAPData, decisions are taken on our pensions not by us but by our bosses. The risk transfer … Continue reading →

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Why has WTW bought Cushon? Why did people buy Cushon?

One interesting snippet from the WTW/NatWest Cushon press release comes at the end of Nick Reeves’ pre-report I wonder what an employer in a firm such as Creative or Salvus is thinking having started with that trust, become part of … Continue reading →

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Why are banks so rubbish at workplace pensions?

The chart shows how “pensions” fit into a retail structure alongside protection and investments. This blog explains why workplace pensions do not fit on this organigram and why banks are so bad at doing pensions. Yesterday, I wrote a piece … Continue reading →

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A great British Fintech is no fit for NatWest.

It is intriguing to consider what Cushon’s workplace pension (let’s put aside their ISA) to the three named suitor. There are many others who might have been on the suitors list, where the prospect of the master trust achieving Scale … Continue reading →

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Will NatWest get back its £144m for 85% of Cushon?

It’s an important story if Editor John Greenwood puts his name to it. It was published on a Friday and so has had very little comment on it from a pension press (as yet) but I suspect it will have. … Continue reading →

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NatWest Cushon set their sights high at the Mansion House

John Greenwood has reported on yesterday’s event at the Mansion House, reported on from the FT and Torsten Bell’s perspective here. It looks that an agreement was in place that set the FT’s Mary McDougall on reporting Torsten Bell and … Continue reading →

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How Standard Life’s Master Trust could be a world beater.

Over this Easter weekend, Helen Dean, former CEO of Nest and one of the architects of auto-enrolment, will take over as Chair of Standard Life’s Master Trust. Big challenge 1.0 She can look back at this statement, made when she … Continue reading →

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Pot for life (more than a hippy’s dream)

Having roved around the basement of the National Liberal Club with David Robbins and the Pension PlayPen crew (more on this later) , I cycled through a wet Whitehall to the offices of the Social Market Foundation meeting along the … Continue reading →

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