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Why should frustration blight the pension promise?
I have been following a series of tweets from Jo Cumbo; they concern an interview with a man who has recently “encashed” his pension with the cash being invested in a drawdown product. He is 57, has worked for British … Continue reading
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Tagged advice, British Steel, BSPS, Drawdown, pension, Pensionn Scheme
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This market failure’s not about advice but product.
The FCA paper on structural problems with the pension freedoms that I wrote about yesterday, is the first evidence of Government admitting all in this garden is not rosy. What has happened since 2015 is an increase in people hammering … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, CDC, pensions
Tagged advice, annuity, CDC, Drawdown, financial advice, Target Pensions, wealth management, wealth manager
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Bad language gives pensions a bad name.
Yesterday a financial journalist called about a confusing e-mail she had seen showing changes to a friend’s pension plan The letter was trying to explain how the friend’s fund management would change – to give her freedom and choice in … Continue reading
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Tagged annuity, bad language, communication, Drawdown, Flexi-access drawdown, jargon, pension, pensions
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Does Pension Freedom need a “disinvestment default”?
The success of auto-enrolment in encouraging 7 million new pension savers to stay in, has been attributed to the power of inertia. There may be some goodwill generated by “pension freedoms” but even workplace pension providers accept that most new … Continue reading
Auto-protection from an autodidact (the joy of Johnson).
One of the joys of Michael Johnson’s 40 or so papers on pensions is that you never know what to expect next. Johnson deliberately sets himself apart from the industry to rail at it. He is at his best when … Continue reading
Are defaults enough? Or do we need compulsion?
Well I’m back from 10 days in India where I saw the very rich and the very poor but not much in the middle. I saw some very fine architecture which showed me what can be done when people … Continue reading
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Tagged CDC, Drawdown, Freedoms, ft, josephine cumbo, Pension Freedoms, pensions
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DRAWDOWN TAX; I’m as free as a bird (in a cage)
I’m as free as a bird can be when “freedom” is defined and confined by HMRC. “Me” as case study; I have a pension pot which wealth managers call “big” but can only supply me with an income of £15,000 … Continue reading
2017 – a year when workplace pensions will grow up!
Restoring confidence in pensions 2017 has dawned on a different pension landscape . There are more than twice as many employers participating in workplace pensions as at any time in British history, the stock market is at an all-time high … Continue reading
Posted in Fawlty Towers, pension playpen, pensions
Tagged auto-enrolement, CDC, Drawdown, Grow, internet, pension playpen, pensions, People's Pension, Wealth, workplace Pensions
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Five moral reasons I didn’t take my DB transfer.
Jo Cumbo (my journalist of the year) has finished 2016 with a fascinating article on what (her sub editor?) describes as “a stampede to cash in gold-plated final salary schemes“. I felt angry – a little bit “dirt” when I’d … Continue reading
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Tagged CETV, Drawdown, final salary, gold-plated, IFA, market, mumbo jumbo, pensions, wealth manager
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Why pensions should become a big government obsession in 2o17!
In my article yesterday, I suggested we don’t need to change pension regulations, we need to stop looking at pensions as a threat but as a benefit. This applies to auto-enrolment too- where employers are not engaging with pensions, … Continue reading