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Advice market ‘stable but evolving’ – the FCA should be proud
Consolidation and technology are reshaping the advisory sector – but the FCA are on top of advice after a decade getting its act together. I would not say there was much to be proud of in 2017 when Al Rush, … Continue reading
I give up on VFM for pensions and so does Guy Opperman, I like the guy!
I don’t suppose that former Minister Guy Opperman knew he would be reported at the Aptia conference yesterday. He works for them a couple of days a month and was delivering the kind of comments that would have gone down … Continue reading
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Tagged Aptia, Business, CDC, DWP, FCA, Guy Opperman, pension, Pensions, Retirement, TPR, Value for Money, VFM
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A former minister, the Pensions Bill and enactment.
Guy Opperman has been an intermediary between the civil service and those getting their knickers in a twist about the Pension Schemes Bill. Thanks Guy. It’s a valuable service that brings order and sense to the ping pong between the … Continue reading
We will get VFM when IGCs and Trustees are independent.
This blog argues that advisers have no business interfering in the IGC’s and Trustee’s analysis of VFM. Jonathan Parker: Value for money back under the spotlight I have since their formation in 2015, thought IGCs in the pocket of the … Continue reading
A Pensions Mutual for a CDC.
It is good to launch a good news story and I can today. Last Monday, while talking “small pots” we got news from the FCA that the Pensions Mutual had been registered and sealed What is the Pensions Mutual? … Continue reading
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Tagged CDC, collective, FCA, Income, pension, Pensions Mutual, Retirement, Secure
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A Pensions Mutual which will launch a CDC Pension within a year
It is good to launch a good news story and I can today. Last Monday, while talking “small pots” we got news from the FCA that the Pensions Mutual had been registered and sealed What is the Pensions Mutual? … Continue reading
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Tagged CDC, collective, FCA, Income, pension, Pensions Mutual, Retirement, Secure
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Tribunal upholds bans and fines for reckless pension advisers and fund manager
This is an announcement on 18th February by the FCA The Upper Tribunal has upheld the FCA’s decisions to ban Stephen Joseph Burdett and James Paul Goodchild from working in financial services. Mr Burdett and Mr Goodchild previously held senior … Continue reading
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Tagged Darren Reynolds, FCA, Fraud, Stephen Joseph Burdett and James Paul Goodchild
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Guiide don’t beef with the FCA – a video record
Pension PlayPen’s coffee morning on Tuesday 10th February was a discussion of the FCA’s regulation regime for pension transfers. Here is the video of the hour long session. This is a world away from the discussions on DB and CDC … Continue reading
AI Live Testing: Can the FCA can support safe and responsible AI deployment?
We are caught in a bind about AI. Our pension pots depend on the Magnificent 7’s AI enterprise not being a bubble that bursts not just California’s technology but our retirement saving. But it’s more fundamental than that! This and … Continue reading
A new TPR? It needs a refresh and these projects to get going!
There are a number of initiatives going on at The Pensions Regulator. Yesterday I contributed to one of them – the “Vision” that is being lead by Elizabeth Renshaw-Ames You can read the project that the “Vision” is on this … Continue reading