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Pensions are dead – long live pensions!

The OECD have spoken – British workers will have worse pensions than folk from any other OECD country; this from Patrick Collinson in  the Guardian. Workers in the UK will have the worst pensions of any major economy and the … Continue reading →

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NEST is not a financial soup-kitchen.

For some time , I and others advising on workplace pensions have been calling for NEST to make a clear statement on charging employers for NEST support. Now we have it . In case you can’t press the link , here … Continue reading →

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Pothole follows member

At one moment, as I sneakily followed the autumn statement on twitter (while supposed to be doing strategy), I heard the Chancellor remark Over the next five years the Government will spend £250m to pay for pothole repairs This has … Continue reading →

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Preparing for an auto-enrolment capacity crunch.

The Telegraph is running a story suggesting that the DWP are drawing up a plan B for auto-enrolment that could see the timeline for initial staging stretch to the next decade. Nannies, gardeners and staff at small firms may not get … Continue reading →

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Will Lovegrove – a true hero of auto-enrolment

For ages, I’ve been banging on about improving the effeciency of how we manage auto-enrolment. But it was only when I met Will, that I understood how to do it.  Sitting on the Papdis group (albeit as an enthusiastic observor), … Continue reading →

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The conflicted world of Independent Governance Committees

If this is consumer friendly – I’d rather be a Dutchman! Continue reading →

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SHOW ME THE MONEY! What’s going to happen our auto-enrolment savings?

People want to know what happens to the money they invest and we are terrible about explaining where their money ends up. This blog talks about how we can make pension investment as vivid and real as the picture above. Over … Continue reading →

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Why financial education can only go so far….

You know when you have a guilty thought and you can’t share it with anyone. And then, quite by chance, someone repeats that thought back at you – and you feel relieved, ashamed and a little bit angry all at … Continue reading →

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Helping employers with pensions – you don’t have to be an IFA!

Since RDR in January 2013, the number of IFAs operating in Britain has more than halved from 50 to 24,000. The ban on commission or its sibling “consultancy charging” has made it all but impossible for IFAs to make money … Continue reading →

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If not CDC – what?

CDC – flawed in conception Steve Webb told me that when he spoke with Andrew Young, the former Government Actuary for the DWP, Andrew advised him to “think big”. Steve did and he will be remembered not just for the … Continue reading →

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