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Should I give my job to a computer?
This week the BBC has been running a series of programs on artificial intelligence. The first program asked the question HOW SUSCEPTIBLE ARE JOBS TO COMPUTERISATION? and reference was made to a study published here. I’d give it a read if you have a … Continue reading
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Tagged artificial intelligence, Business, Business and Economy, computer, Employment, ETF, FinTech, Government, job, jobs, nutmeg, pension, Pension new, pension playpen, pensions, Retirement, Smartphone
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Mastertrusts – an accident waiting to happen?
How do we pay for pensions? We still know too little about what we are paying for pensions. The following statement appears on Standard Life’s website Employers can be confident that their schemes will all be compliant with the charge … Continue reading
How Pensions are getting fairer.
I was speaking with a Scottish friend , an academic and one of the few politicians I know who was brought up without a lot of money in the family. I had to phrase that carefully, for when I first wrote … Continue reading
Posted in pensions, Pensions Regulator, Ros Altmann
Tagged auto enrolment, Business, Employment, Financial services, Government, National Employment Savings Trust, occupational pension schemes, pension, Pension new, Pension Protection Fund, Pension Regulator, pension scheme, pension schemes, pensions, Retirement, short-service, Tax
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Linked In’s no website for old men!
Yeats wrote that Byzantium was no country for old men. He was right, according to the Daily Express, we are all on linked in leering at young girl’s profiles. It looks like the poem should get re-written for young women … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, Byzantium, corporate governance, corporate risk, Employment, Linked in, no country for old men, old men, pensions, sailing to Byzantium, WB Yeats, young women
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Are employers buying workplace pensions on value or price?
We have started an interesting project looking at the reasons given for choosing a workplace pension. Our sample is those employers who have used http://www.pensionplaypen.com ‘s “choose a pension” tool. For those who don’t know- the tool analyses data input … Continue reading
Don’t be daunted – it’s not hard (or expensive) to choose the best workplace pension for your staff
If you are a boss, or act for a boss as an accountant, financial adviser or payroll manager, you may be getting worried about auto-enrolment. You’ve probably had your little brown envelope from the Pension Regulator telling you that you … Continue reading
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Tagged advice, auto enrolment, Employment, frefreedoms. pension playpen, pensions, social media, workplace Pensions
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IFAs take the lead in sorting the transfer blockage.
BIG THINKING Two things I’m really looking forward to in September are threesixty’s two “Big Thinking Days”. One’s in Edinburgh and one’s in London and if you’re going, you;re in for a treat. Threesixty are a pretty pucker outfit (IMO) and … Continue reading
Does drawdown need a charges cap for pension drawdown
This post was written a few months ago but never published. The main thrust is still relevant, the thrust is that we are better off building better and more relevant products than trying to squeeze drawdown into a shirt two … Continue reading
Posted in accountants, advice gap, pension playpen, pensions
Tagged Business, CAP, charges, Drawdown, DWP, Employment, Financial services, flexible drawdown, Government, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, Pension new, Pension Regulator, pensions, Politics, Public Sector Pensions, Value for Money
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Pot follows member – over a cliff?
There’s a great saying in racing “I’d follow that horse over a cliff”. It’s a morbid comment on most gambler’s instinct to chase losses for sentimental rather than economic reasons. When conviction sets in, then rationality is the loser and … Continue reading
Posted in pensions, Pensions Regulator, Personal Accounts, Popcorn Pensions
Tagged advice, annuity, auto enrolment, Ben Cocks, big-fat-pot, DWP, Employment, insurance companies, insurance company, Pension Freedoms, Pension new, pension playpen, pensions, Politics, Pot, Pot follows member, Retirement, Steve Webb
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