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The tricky job of enrolling the self-employed into pensions
The estimate from the Citizen’s Advice Bureau that some 460,000 extra workers are currently missing out on auto-enrolment because employers deem them independently self-employed seems reasonable. When employers conduct a workforce assessment, they generally do so with a cut of … Continue reading
What passing bells for those who work as cattle?
It’s currently cool to talk about treating your workforce as a commodity. Evidence- Jeff Bezos can get on the Front Page of the New York Times for his experiments in office cruelty. “Amazon is successful right now- Bezos must be getting … Continue reading
Auto-enrolment – now get stuck in!
Auto-enrolment is 3 years old but the real fun only starts here. In the coming quarter, we will be preparing for the big spikes in staging that begin in January 2016. Whether you are an accountant, work in a payroll … Continue reading
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Tagged annuity, auto enrolment, Business, corporate governance, dc pensions, DWP, Ease, Employment, Financial services, L&G, Legal & General, pension, pension playpen, pensions, worksave, worksave pension play
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Mobilising millions – training employers on AE.
Who is going to mobilise the millions of bosses still to stage auto-enrolment? There are not 1.3m but 1.8m employers in the UK who will need to stage auto-enrolment.Of these , all but around 65,000, more than 1,790,000 employers have … Continue reading
He’s here, he’s there,he’s every f**k*n where -Carsten Staehr
If you were in Carriage B on the 15.35 Kings Cross to Newcastle yesterday afternoon, our apologies. It was a quiet coach, it wasn’t quiet. Carsten Staehr was in the carriage. Two weeks ago, at the age of 52, Carsten … Continue reading
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Tagged auto enrolment, Business, Carsten, Carsten Staehr, Cintrra, Employment, Financial services, Government, Newcastle, Payroll, Payroll World, pensions, Retirement, Viking
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MUTINY AT THE BOUNTY!
Yesterday was a shocker! As many of you know, (from first hand experience), I spend much of the summer driving my boat and guests up and down the Thames. Yesterday was no exception. What made yesterday different, was my … Continue reading
Disruption – is how social media regulates
In the context of Business continuity management, Disruption is an event which causes an “unplanned, negative deviation from the expected delivery … according to the organization’s objectives”. In this blog, I argue that disruption is part of the governance process … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, auto-enrolment, Payroll, smelly
Tagged Business, Business and Economy, corporate governance, corporate risk, dc pensions, Disruption, Employment, Financial services, negative, pension, pension playpen, Pension Regulator, pensions, Politics, RDR, regulation, Retirement, South West Trains, Steve Webb
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Come on Sage – you can and should do better!
Sage are a great British success story. Over the past 20 years they have become pre-eminent as a payroll software supplier and latterly a portal for a range of back-office business solutions. Www.pensionplaypen.com is itself a business customer, using SagePay … Continue reading
The FinTech boom ignites with the start-ups!
This chart says something pretty interesting. It tells us that London is the top place in Europe for Financial Technology, it tells us that in terms of performance and market reach, we’re doing great but that we lag in Funding … Continue reading
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Tagged advice, auto enrolment, Business, Business and Economy, David Cameron, DWP, Ease, Employment, Financial services, George Osborne, Government, ITM, Legal & General, NEST, pension playpen, Pension Regulator, pensions, pensionsync, People's Pension, Retirement, Ros Altmann, social media, Systemsync
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Why I think we’ll avoid a capacity crunch.
The predictions are dire – mass non-compliance – auto-enrolment brought into disrepute and pensions marched out of the last chance saloon and replaced by ISAs. It is as if some of my colleagues actually want this to happen- not that … Continue reading
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Tagged annuity, auto enrolment, Business, Defined benefit pension plan, Employment, FAMR, FCA, Lesley Titcombe, pensions, Ros Altmann, TPR
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