Tag Archives: Daily Mail
No excuse for pension transfer delays – let’s bring back league tables!
Jeff Prestridge, one of our most senior and consumer friendly journalists has been through a hard time bringing his pension pots together as he goes through a divorce. There has been a lot of talk in the past few weeks … Continue reading
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Tagged #pensiondashboardsummit, Daily Mail, Jeff Prestridge, Pension Bee, Pension Dashboard, Romi Savova, Sunday Mail
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This time next year Rodney – we all could be pension millionaires
How hard is it to build a £1m retirement nest egg? Find out below… The Daily Mail and an investment manager from Brewin Dolphin have got the ONS to dig up information that suggests that someone in the UK has … Continue reading
Financial advisors need better retirement products
Better products that deliver what they say I had the pleasure of Chris Radford’s company over the weekend. Chris is a consultant to pension providers , a regular at our Pension lunches and someone who thinks about the way ordinary people … Continue reading
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Tagged advice, annuity, Business, CDC, Chris Radford, Daily Mail, dc pensions, FAMR, FCA, financial advice, Financial services, Mail online, pension playpen, Pension Regulator, pensions, Retirement, Treasury
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Hats off to Steve Webb for our new pensions system!
It’s good to see the publication of the DWP’s white paper Security in Retirement – towards a new pension system. It announces an initiative first promoted by Frank Field in the late 1990s but thought then “unthinkable”;. While I agree with … Continue reading
Six for five pound, one pound fish
Following brief employment at a pound shop, Muhammad Shahid Nazir, a Pakistani immigrant to the United Kingdom from the town of Pattoki, Kasur in Punjab, began work on a fish stall at Queen’s Market, Upton Park where his employer instructed him to … Continue reading
Posted in fish, one pound fish, pensions, smelly
Tagged Daily Mail, Kasur, London, Muhammad Shahid Nazir, Pakistan, Pattoki, Queens Road Market, Shahid Nazir
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Rose Metcalf- dancing seafarer to the rescue.
Did anyone hear the full interview on Radio Five Live this morning with Rose Metcalf? The 22-year-old dancer told of her night helping passengers, staff and herself off the stricken Costa Concordia with a poise and understatement that suggests she has rather more … Continue reading
Posted in costa concordia, Cruise boats, Henry Tapper blog
Tagged BBC, BBC Radio 5 Live, Carnival Corporation & plc, Costa Concordia, Daily Mail, Dorset, Eurozone, Isola del Giglio, Italy, Radio Five Live, Rose, Rose Metcalf, Timeline of the sinking of RMS Titanic, Tragic, Travel, Wimborne Minster
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That ETV debate in full
Sometimes people’s comments on blogs are more interesting than the blog itself- this is certainly the case in a blog I wrote last week on “Enhanced Transfer Values” the thrust of which is that there are better ways to de-rsik defined benefit pension plans than by giving members cash bungs to transfer out theirguaranteed rights.
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Posted in annuity, dc pensions, de-risking, pension playpen
Tagged annuity, Cash, Daily Mail, dc pensions, de-risking, Defined benefit pension plan, DWP, Economics, Human Resources, KPMG, linkedin, Martyn Lewis, pension, Pension new, pension playpen, pensions, Peter, Peter Flanagan, Wonga.com
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There are better ways to de-risk than ETVs
The only pension schemes which you cannot transfer out of are the Basic State Pension, State Second Pension and NEST (yes – odd that a DC plan is in that mix). Continue reading
Posted in corporate governance, customer service, dc pensions, de-risking, EU Solvency II, Liability Driven Investment, NEST, Retirement
Tagged bribery act, Cash, Compensation & Benefits, corporate governance, corporate risk, customer service, Daily Mail, dc pensions, de-risking, Defined benefit pension plan, Defined contribution plan, EU Solvency II, Human Resources, KPMG, Liability Driven Investment, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, NEST, pension, Pension new, Pensions, Politics, Retirement, Society, State Second Pension, Stock market
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Pension Playpen lunch- the new consensus
Next lunch is Monday December 6th- same place but we’ll be doing a Christmas special. Continue reading