Yes, follow-up on the many benefits of Auto-Enrollment with the benefits of Auto-Consolidation, with opt-outs again for the sophisticates who…
The great advantage of a DC pension controlled by the beneficiary is complete control over the cash flows during decumulation…
"Pensions that are linked to salaries and/or inflation pensions are largely extinct in the private sector because they are unaffordable."…
bp’s Code of Conduct states “Do the right thing” and “Be accountable and “We follow through on our promises.” Well…
Tag Archives: FinTech
Pentechs – time for us to get organised?
I’m running a meeting in WeWork Moorgate on 4th March at 4pm. The seminar is for people who are serious about pensions technology as a service. I mean technology as a means of improving the efficiency and value for … Continue reading
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Tagged AgeWage, FDATA, FinTech, Gavin Littlejohn, PensionBee, pensions, Pentech, Romi Savova
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We Need Breakthrough Business Models, not Breakthrough Technology
I found this article on Linked In. You can find the original here. It makes a lot of sense – not just of why we get bubbles, but how- succesful businesses can be created out of the vacuum when a … Continue reading
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Tagged AgeWage, FinTech, pension playpen, pensions, Technology
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Our pen-tech free pension picnic!
“It is one thing for a company to know my vacation shopping patterns or what media I like; it is another for them to access my entire financial history, including my investments” So Rana Foroohar wraps up an … Continue reading
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Tagged FinTech, ft, Gregg, pensions, Pentech, Technology
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I want to choose my dashboard please!
Thankfully the Government has seen sense, it is not going to provide a one size fits all Volkswagon dashboard, it’s going to offer us a motor-show of choice! The Government is not going to build or maintain a pension dashboard. … Continue reading
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Tagged AgeWage, CDC, DWP, FinTech, MoneyHub, Open Banking, Pension Bee, Pension Dashboard, pensions, Pentech, Revolut, Starling, Yolt
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The dashboard is dead – long live dashboards!
The following statement was made by Simon Kirby, then a Treasury Minister , in my presence on 12th September 2016 I think there are three main principles that must underpin (the dashboard’s) whole design. Firstly, it will need to be open. No single … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, age wage, auto-enrolment, Bankers, Big Government, pensions
Tagged AgeWage, Beau Brummel, FinTech, Pension Bee, Pension Dashboard, Pension Tech, pensions, simon kirby
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Not so fast – Mr Robot!
Telling moment during the Lockton Global Forum today: Mike Tyler refers to the famous study BMW did comparing performance levels between a production line with older workers with a line on younger workers. Delegate from BMW speaks up: “I … Continue reading
A pensions dashboard brings its own risk.
A need for pension I am keen not to pour cold water on the pensions dashboard, but I am not having it promoted as the game-changer to savings behaviour. The pensions dashboard is what Martin Clarke, the Government Actuary, refers to … Continue reading
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Tagged ABI, FinTech, GAD, Government, John Cridland, Martin Clarke, pension, Pensions Dashboard, Treasury
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Pension Dashboard – cure or curse?
This lunchtime , the Pension PlayPen lunch will be discussing this very question. If you’d like to have your say in what is likely to be a robust discussion, get yourself to the Partners Room in the Counting … Continue reading
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Tagged FinTech, Pension Dashboard, Pension Digitati, Retirement, Technology, Treasury
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The role of the insurance market in developing Fintech
Have you thought about the risks of e-commerce? This blog talks to those interested in Fintech and in particular the promotion of the start-ups that drive innovation in financial markets. My digital start-up, Pension PlayPen is in terms of staff, … Continue reading
Posted in FinTech, Pension Freedoms, pension playpen, pensions
Tagged AIG, auto enrolment, Blufin, Confidence, FinTech, Insurance, Lloyds, Lockton, pension playpen, protection, Sage
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Should I give my job to a computer?
This week the BBC has been running a series of programs on artificial intelligence. The first program asked the question HOW SUSCEPTIBLE ARE JOBS TO COMPUTERISATION? and reference was made to a study published here. I’d give it a read if you have a … Continue reading
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Tagged artificial intelligence, Business, Business and Economy, computer, Employment, ETF, FinTech, Government, job, jobs, nutmeg, pension, Pension new, pension playpen, pensions, Retirement, Smartphone
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"falls in contribution rates have begun to emerge" The LGPS Survey 2026 undertaken by Room 151 in association with Schroders…