Everything that requires to be paid for the next 20-50 years requires investment. Non-investment types especially actuaries and other managerialists…
"...this change will generate significant savings which we will use to build up our National Care Service." That reads to…
Yes, potentially. Whether Scotland is actually a net contributor to the English scheme, however, requires looking at the precise Treasury/Barnett…
I agree with Steve Webb that final judgement requires the details. But history tells us that an earnings link that…
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Hey- You – Get onto the cloud
If you’ve been reading last week’s blogs you may have spotted a plan developing. I’m certain that collective DC is the way forward for all but a small minority of us who will be drawing on funded pensions. I’m certain … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon Web Services, Babel, Business, Cloud computing, Facebook, Hamish Wilson, linked in, linkedin, mallowstreet, pensions, Society, twitter
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Wake up and swipe the coffee (#pensions folk)
My son uses barcode apps and taught me over the weekend . It’s time we woke up and swiped our coffee- literally and metaphorically.
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Tagged Android, Facebook, Groupon, IPad, IPhone, mallowstreet, Mobile payment, Pension new, pension playpen, pensions, Retirement, Starbucks, twitter
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Couldn’t have put it better myself
“In a year’s time”, he says, “it will almost certainly look totally different to this”. Continue reading
Welcome to my (Facebook) world
The time has come to reorganise the pensions message so it can fit on the screen of a mobile phone and is worthy of sitting in Facebook in boxes and on Facebook walls.
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Well you’ve got to laugh..Cameron, Fogarty, Mourinho, me..
Two matters have made me chuckle this morning.
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Tagged Angela Eagle, BBC Radio 5 Live, Chief Secretary to the Treasury, David Cameron, Ed Balls, ezra pound, Facebook, Grosvenor House Hotel, History, Humour, Laughter, Nicky Campbell, Pension new, pension playpen, pensions, Prime Minister's Questions, Shelagh Fogarty, Society, twitter
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How do 540 pension people look on one page?
We are all fascinated by our looks but how do our looks compare?
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Tagged Arts, Facebook, linkedin, NEST, Pension new, pension playpen, Pension Poverty, pensions, Pensions, Public Sector Pensions, twitter
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When should I monetize my child?
What guidance can my readership give me (other than getting him to pay his own phone bills )
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Tagged Aaron Sorkin, Club Penguin, Facebook, IPhone, Mark Zuckerberg, social media, Social network, South Africa
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Pension Comms- let’s get real
We need to get smart about how to talk to members and that goes as much for insurers as trustees. We need to get HR databases talking to pension databases and get members supplying the supra-communicators- the private mobile numbers, the private mailing addresses that allow pensions information to be delivered independently of work and consistently over time.
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Keeping pension scheme members engaged
I hope that in future debates, we will concentrate as much on holding the attention of employees as getting it. Continue reading
Interested in pensions? – I don’t think so
The truth is that the pensions industry is so up its own about communication and the value of saving for retirement that iti s in denial and until it wakes up to to some hard truths- it will continue to seem as foolish to the general population as it does today.
You're right, and Treasury have previous on this. Examples ... Netting at departmental / spending-review level Barnett is applied to…