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Tag Archives: Department for Work and Pensions
Green pensions? How the DWP are looking to take the luck out of the pot.
Gina Miller is right on this Encouraging people to go green with their #pensions is an excellent aspiration but be very cautious @GuyOpperman Until @TheFCA protects consumers by granting 100% transparency of holdings, acts to stop #greenwashing – this could … Continue reading
Posted in accountants, advice gap, age wage
Tagged Department for Work and Pensions, ESG, Green, Impact investment, luck, Pensions, Pot, SRI
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The death bell tolls for commission –
Another step on the hard road to pensions decency Continue reading
“Fair and True” applies to the DWP too!
Steve Webb has a public policy success on his hands but if he’s to capitalise on the good news from large employers, he’s going to take a few bullets now. Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, auto-enrolment, pensions
Tagged Department for Work and Pensions, DWP, Employment, Financial services, Government, pension, Steve Webb, Universal Credit
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Pot noodles member
Think technology Steve, small pots will become a lot smaller through aggregation and operation big fat pot may end up being renamed “Webb’s folly”.
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Posted in pensions
Tagged Department for Work and Pensions, DWP, Employment, Hansard, Insurance, pension, Steve Webb, Webb
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A chance to keep companies with DB pensions solvent
Income and Corporation taxes tend to dominate the mindsets of the rich, they are meaningless to those who don’t pay them. Unsurprisingly, it is the headline aspects of the Chancellor’s autumn statement that have captured the headlines. This small clause was initially … Continue reading
Why we shouldn’t give up on pensions.
Many people now see their company pension as a cause of concern not of comfort. Take this person who wrote to us last week… Prior to the meeting, I was a little apprehensive ,as I had an assorted portfolio of … Continue reading
Steve Webb needs hard cash for his defined ambitions.
Steve Webb needs more than “ambition” to sort out disillusion with pensions. Continue reading
Posted in Financial Education, happiness, NEST, pensions
Tagged Daily Telegraph, David Cameron, Department for Work and Pensions, Government, pension, Private sector, Steve Webb, Webb
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Steve Webb’s good week
Now anyone who can talk of a “regulatory regime which allows 1000 flowers to bloom” has got to have been taking the happy pills. Continue reading
Posted in annuity, auto-enrolment, dc pensions, defined aspiration, Liberal Democrats, Management, NEST, pension playpen, pensions, Popcorn Pensions, Treasury
Tagged Defined benefit pension plan, Department for Work and Pensions, DWP, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, Pensions Management Institute, Ros Altmann, Steve, Steve Webb, Tesco, UK State Pension, Webb
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Bill Whitehead’s drawers
I wrote last week about why we need a national register of people’s pension pots (not a clearing house or a system of enforced transfers). Re-reading the post, I can see many people will be asking “what is the issue at … Continue reading
Pension Equality? Don’t make me laugh.
Great news, – a group of civil servants (the National Audit Office) have decided to audit the work of another group of civil servants (the Pension Regulator) reporting to another group of civil servants (the DWP). The point of the audit is … Continue reading
Posted in annuity, Bankers, corporate governance, dc pensions, de-risking, Liberal Democrats, Martin Lewis, NEST, pension playpen, pensions, Retirement
Tagged Civil service, Defined benefit pension plan, Department for Work and Pensions, DWP, National Audit Office, pension, Pension Regulator, Private sector, Steve Webb
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