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All change – UK votes to leave
I write at 6 am, at exactly the point when “vote leave won”. There will be many blogs written trying to make sense of the vote, this will not be one of them. I voted remain and at mid-day yesterday, … Continue reading
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Tagged Boris Johnson, Brexit, David Cameron, Employment, Europe, Farage, Leave, pension, pensions, Poland
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The still small voice of the (BHS) pensioner
I think back now to the people with whom I worked in BHS – by and large decent and hard-working folk, who had little prospect of ever being well-off unless they won the lottery or their Premium Bond came … Continue reading
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Tagged BHS, Business, Chris Martin, Dominic Chappell, Elijah, Employment, pension, pensions, Philip Green, Retirement, Shop, Still small voice
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Don’t tell me “this feels momentous”
Does this feel momentous to you? If we remain in the EU, as the bookies tell us we will, we will be where we were before this sad sorry saga began, with diminished credibility. If we leave, we will be … Continue reading
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Tagged Brexit, Business, Cameron, Employment, Jo Cox, Leadership, Leave, pensions, Remain, Retirement
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Please vote – out of respect.
If you read no other article this weekend, read this by the Fleet Street Fox. It says what I was trying to say in an amateurish way yesterday, it talks of Jo Cox’s death as a wake-up call to those of … Continue reading
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Tagged Brendan Cox, Brexit, Employment, EU, Jo Cox, MP, pensions, Referendum, Remain, Retirement, Society, vote
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Linked in – the predator’s playground
I suspect that your view of the $26bn (£18bn) cash valuation of Linkedin by Microsoft, will depend on whether your a linked in predator or linked in prey. Linkedin is the Serengeti of the social media world, a (cyber) space … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, Employment, Groups, linkedin, Microsoft, predator, prey, serengeti, wildnerness
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The market-force and where it has a voice.
Context I spent most of yesterday in company with pension providers at the MarketForce conference in London (and most of the evening whooping it up with my chums in payroll!). The Marketforce Conference is clearly a big deal- brilliantly organised … Continue reading
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Tagged auto enrolment, Business, Employment, Financial services, Just Retirement, Marketforce, Nigel Wison, pension, Pension new, pension playpen, pensions, Retirement, Ros Altmann
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If I ran a master trust…
Not all of us run a master trust, though you might think it was Britain’s boom industry from the amount of press “master trust proliferation” has got. This blog is here for those who do, and for those who advise … Continue reading
The soft underbelly of master trusts
Many master trusts are absolutely rotten – they are not fit for purpose. Lots of advisers are using them as a back door way of bringing in commission, dressed up as high governance charges. The words of Barnett Waddingham’s … Continue reading
Posted in accountants, advice gap, auto-enrolment, pensions, Pensions Regulator
Tagged auto enrolment, charges, DWP, Employment, Financial services, governance, Government, master trust, National Employment Savings Trust, Retirement, soft underbelly, The Pensions Regulator, trust, underbelly
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A transparent press is an honest press.
The “Breaking News” in Britain’s financial press is that City AM is tearing down the divide between editorial and advertising and giving the people who pay for their site, the chance to run a section of their (digital) paper. Running … Continue reading
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Tagged City AM, Employment, Financial services, Financial Times, ft, journalism, Pay-wall, Transparency
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Actuaries – “VOTE SALT” your profession needs her.
Vote Salt in the elections for the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries Council. Tell those who know and trust you “Vote Salt”. Actuaries – if you’ve lost the link to your email, PRESS THIS LINK and VOTE SALT This is why … Continue reading
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Tagged Actuary, Employment, Hilary, Hilary Salt, Pension Actuary, pensions, profession, Vote Salt
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