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This scaremongering on auto-enrolment has to stop!
Scaremongering Scaremongering sells newspapers and we love to be afraid. It is easy to write stories that play on our fears, because they are the ones we want to read. But that doesn’t make scaremongering alright, just as it doesn’t … Continue reading
NOW- that’s what I call good news!
With over 1.2 million small and micro firms yet to tackle auto enrolment, new research from workplace pensions provider NOW: Pensions reveals that the number of employers planning on contributing more than the legislative minimum has nearly doubled in the … Continue reading
Making social media work for us
One of the things that social media does, is blur the line between work and play. The distinction is one that employers , regulators and brands attempt to manage, often with arcane rules that make them a laughing stock to their … Continue reading
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Tagged Blog, employers, Employment, Facebook, instagram, Linked in, pension playpen, Pension Regulator, pensions, social media, twitter, WordPress
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The price of choice
It is becoming increasingly clear that the progress of the auto-enrolment project is balanced at the fulcrum. Until now attention has been focussed on the technical details surrounding the auto-enrolment process. But we are moving towards a new phase where … Continue reading
An alarming gap in pension regulation
In this world, the best lack all conviction, while the worst are filled with a passionate intensity Continue reading
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Tagged auto enrolment, Business, corporate risk, DWP, employers, FCA, Financial services, Government, master trust, National Employment Savings Trust, NEST, pension, Pension new, pension playpen, Regulator, Retirement, Royal Assent, the Pensions Regualtor, Treasury, workplace Pensions
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NOW – that’s what I call pensions!
Why the Pension PlayPen supports NOW as a workplace pension It’s no easy thing starting a master trust from scratch. Though NOW Pensions, had the experience of running a state backed pension in Denmark (through parent APT), coming … Continue reading
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Tagged employers, growing pains, MAoney Marketing, Mastertrusts, Moreton Nilsson, NOW, NOW Pensions, pension, pension scheme, pensions
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So much for the “haves”, what of the “have nots”?
It has now been well over a year since the OFT published this comment Since this warning, not a lot has been done to improve the quality of purchasing by employers. The DWP is introducing legislation in April which will … Continue reading
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Tagged annuity, auto enrolment, Business, employers, Human Resources, NEST, pension, Pension new, pension playpen, Pension Regulator, pensions, Politics, Retirement
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Haven’t employers done their bit?
Employers have a right to feel put upon. I hear that the Pensions Minister is disappointed that large employers are not interested in delivering pension freedoms to retiring staff. If he believed that employers were prepared to take on responsibility … Continue reading
What really worries bosses about pensions.
Are you going to walk up the garden path to ACME insurance who is promising you the earth-or are you going to take a look next door as well? Continue reading
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Tagged bosses, Business, dc pensions, employers, Financial services, Government
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