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Tag Archives: Financial services
Dashboards will test quality of service – and value for members.
Thanks Paul McGlone for reminding the good people of Linked-in that “dashboard denial” is futile. He ends a pithy argument with an admission that while dashboards are coming , we don’t know quite when. Of course, none of that is … Continue reading
300 new tickets issued for Friday’s VFM conference – register here.
We have been able to increase our Zoom capacity from 200 to 500, to allow a much wider audience. Following the publication of their findings on what members of workplace pensions want to know, Ruston Smith and Janette Weir will … Continue reading
Has lifestyling worked? Who knows?
Who knows! Lifestyling – (sometimes called “life-cycling”) in DC pensions means adjusting the asset allocation of a pension pot to meet changing circumstances as people prepare to crystallise their pension pot(s). A crystallisation is a transaction which sees an encashment … Continue reading
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Tagged advice, Business and Economy, CDC, Census, dc pensions, de-risking, Financial services, pension, Pension new, Pensions, Retirement, Who knows
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‘We’ve been here before’: IFAs round on gov’t DC illiquid assets plan
It’s not my headline (or my photo), I’ve nicked them from Citywire’s NMA and if you click the link you can read the views of a number of IFAs on the idea of having your pension pot invested in illiquid … Continue reading
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Tagged Confidence, dc pensions, Defined benefit pension plan, Financial services, Government, pension, Pensions, Playpen
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Standard Life’s IGC provides a bit in the middle
Standard Life’s IGC has been very courteous and issued an interim report for those (like me) who read their reports every March/April. This year we will have to wait till July to read the report and I’m particularly interested in … Continue reading
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Tagged auto enrolment, dc pensions, FCA, Financial services, Government, IGC, Pensions
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John Ralfe’s CDC lecture
A big thank you to Imperial College Business School for making this a public lecture, It brought 140 people together, encouraged some sharp debate in the chat room and gave a platform to John Ralfe to explain the con trick … Continue reading
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Tagged annuity, Brevan Howard, CDC, dc, Financial services, John Ralfe
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If we have to take advice – pensions have failed
I have been in furious correspondence over the weekend with a friend , over one of the key words in today’s pension lexicon “engagement“. There is a strongly held opinion by many in pensions that we should require people to … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, DWP, ESG, Financial services, pension, Pension new, Pensions, Retirement
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Is the public too “common” for Value For Money
I got this mail this morning from a friend who thinks very deeply about private pensions and how we can organize them to help ourselves to better retirement (while ensuring they are invested for common good). We’ve been talking … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, dc pensions, DWP, Financial services, Government, pension, Pension new, Pensions, Retirement
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Nest sees strong saving through the pandemic – why not?
A tricky course to navigate. Whatever is written about pension saving over the past 12 months needs to written in pencil, with the option to rub-out and replace where offence is incurred. That’s because generalizations about people’s capacity to save … Continue reading
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Tagged auto enrolment, Business, Business and Economy, DWP, Financial services, NEST, Pandemic, pension, pension saving, Pensions, Retirement
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Consumers mustn’t pay to clean up the FCA’s mess.
This is a post from Gina Miller on Linked in. It poses a question about accountability The Gloster Report into #LCF is a damning indictment of failures at the FCA – Whilst my blood boils on behalf of millions of victims … Continue reading
