Tag Archives: Dashboard

Do we need a pension dashboard , open pensions or both?

Posted on October 9, 2020 by

The title of this post is also the title of a session I am chairing at a forthcoming DG conference. I suggested the title and the organisers have asked me to explain myself – so here goes! I had long … Continue reading →

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Open pensions today – pension dashboards tomorrow!

Posted on October 3, 2020 by

Tired of manana? The Pension dashboard will arrive one day, but when it does it will be a pension finding service. If what you’re waiting for is a way to bring your pensions together then there are plenty of dashboards … Continue reading →

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“We are only accepting digital signatures from IFA firms that do business with us”.

Posted on September 26, 2020 by

It was a short email to one of my colleagues…. At this stage we are only accepting digital signatures from IFA firms who introduce new business to us. So AgeWage was not going to be privileged with the data requested … Continue reading →

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If payroll can integrate to our pensions, why can’t we?

Posted on August 9, 2020 by

Cast your mind back to the back end of 2012 when the big retailers and banks were staging auto-enrollment. The big employers were spending hundreds of thousands of pounds re-coding their payroll software or were ransoming themselves to “middle ware” … Continue reading →

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How Pension Providers become winners in a data driven world

Posted on July 26, 2020 by

Data requests are a key measure of  “quality of service”. This is a sister piece to my blog for pension consumers published here.  Under GDPR, consumers are entitled to their pension data in a timely fashion. In a test last … Continue reading →

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Opperman – pensions are for the long term

Posted on July 15, 2020 by

  It was good to see Guy Opperman speaking at Professional Pensions Live. This is my take on his speech and the direction of Government pension’s policy as we come out of lock-down and into the summer recess! Recently Guy  … Continue reading →

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My noble Lords – you Canute be serious

Posted on July 12, 2020 by

King Canute was wise enough to know he could not hold back the incoming tide. This blog is about two decisions taken in the House of Lords which suggest that our peers have not learned that lesson. I have just … Continue reading →

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Support the young , we are done!

Posted on July 11, 2020 by

I realized , as I filled in my submission to the Pension Dashboard Programme’s call for input (you can do yours here), that for my generation, the boomers, the dashboard will arrive too late. Most of our pensions are either … Continue reading →

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AgeWage and Pension Bee call for Dashboards to tell us what we’re paying for our pensions.

Posted on July 7, 2020 by

Yesterday the Money and Pensions Service  opened a consultation on Pensions Dashboards’ data standards, seeking industry-wide input on the definition and scope of the information dashboards will  display. The call for input seeks views on:       the personal data items … Continue reading →

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From PS20-06 to the dashboard; – can the FCA pull it off?

Posted on June 9, 2020 by

  Amidst the noise of the ban on contingent charging, the FCA published a long and detailed Policy Statement PS20-06 For the most part, the FCA is concerned with people safeguarding their rights to promised benefits wherever they may come … Continue reading →

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