Tag Archives: decumulation
“Can we have our money back?” Pension PlayPen lunch- Monday
Monday 4th Feb – 12.30 – Counting House, 50 Cornhill At this lunch we will be discussing whether we are doing enough to help people claim on their pension pots and get their money back as they would like. … Continue reading
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Tagged Counting House, decumulation, Lunch, Pension Play Pen, pensions
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“Rape and Kill” – why the public are turning off retirement advice.
Thanks to the PPI for the second Future Book – Unravelling Workplace Pensions. The 2016 Edition of the PPI’s study on workplace pension is published today. Getting data on the state of workplace pensions has always been tricky. If you … Continue reading
Posted in drawdown, pensions, PPI
Tagged auto enrolment, dc, decumulation, default, pension playpen, pensions, PPI, Saving, spending, workplace Pensions
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Confusing intermediaries
Whether we are talking about saving (accumulation) or spending (decumulation) the issue is the same. Continue reading
Posted in auto-enrolment, pensions, Pensions Regulator, Politics
Tagged accumulation, auto enrolment, deals, decumulation, pensions, Saving, spending, Steve Webb, workplace Pensions
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How to spend your pension -a further blog from Con Keating
If you haven’t read Con’s three previous blogs on this subject (which IMO form the most lucid contribution to the decumulation debate so far) – search Con Keating in the search box at the top of this page. … Continue reading
When spending your retirement pot – the first 5 years are vital – Con Keating
The process of converting retirement savings assets into an income, which has come to be known as decumulation, needs first to be placed in context. The decumulation phase of retirement savings is that period when an income is drawn from … Continue reading
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Tagged CDC, decmulaiotn, decumulation, Pot, retirement pot, spending, volatility
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Let’s not get caught with our trousers down (again).
The reason we have NEST and its £400m debt to the tax-payer is that the private sector refused to commit to supporting auto-enrolment ten years ago. If the organisations like Legal & General, Standard Life and Aviva , could have … Continue reading
Posted in annuity, CDC, Pensions Regulator
Tagged ABI, Actuarial science, annuity, auto enrolment, Business, CDC, collective drawdown, dc pensions, decumulation, Drawdown, Employment, Financial services, financial services industry, Government, IA, Mick Mcateer, NAPF, National Employment Savings Trust, NEST, Pension new, pension playpen, pensions, Retirement, Steve Webb, Target Pensions
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Are workplace pensions “risk-free” to employers?
If you think workplace savings plans are “risk free” to employers – think again; “value for money” changes that Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, Bankers, consultant, dc pensions, Fiduciary Management, First Actuarial, pension playpen, pensions, Retail Distribution Review, Retirement
Tagged Business, Business and Economy, Canada, CDC, Colin Ripsman, corporate governance, corporate risk, dc, dc pensions, de-risking, decumulation, Defined benefit pension plan, Defined Contribution, Eckler Ltd, Employment, Financial services, Pension new, pension playpen, pensions, Plan sponsors, Retirement, retirement income, Steve Webb, workplace Pensions
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Annuity reform- payroll needs to be in the front seat!
Yesterday I wrote about the positives of the proposed abolition of compulsory annuitisation for the life insurers active in the UK pensions market. Today I want to share thoughts on payroll, who are always the last to be consulted and the … Continue reading
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Tagged Bureau, Business, Business and Economy, corporate risk, dc pensions, de-risking, decumulation, Defined benefit pension plan, Employment, Financial services, Government, Insurer, Mastertrust, National Employment Savings Trust, Outsource, pension, pensions, Retirement, Steve Webb
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All the right funds- not necessarily in the right order (a budget prescient blog)
I wrote this blog hours before the budget which abolished annuities. For some reason I decided this morning, to write about investment as if annuities didn’t exist. From 2015, for new pensioners- they will no longer be the default, … Continue reading
Posted in auto-enrolment, CDC, corporate governance, dc pensions, de-risking, defined aspiration, Payroll, pension playpen, pensions, Popcorn Pensions
Tagged annuity, Business, Business and Economy, Collective Pensions, consumptions, corporate governance, corporate risk, dc pensions, de-risking, decumulation, Defined benefit pension plan, DGF, Diverification, Employment, Financial services, free-lunch, National Employment Savings Trust, notes, order, pension, pensions, Retirement, Steve Webb
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