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“Innovation – what innovation?” – Pension PlayPen confounded by DC investments
The 50th London Pension PlayPen lunch took place as ever at the Counting House (attendees listed below). At the opening show of hand six of us could see no great innovation happening in UK DC and three saw “potential” or … Continue reading
Small is beautiful – a good news story from Investment Solutions
Have a look at the Investment Solutions website or http://www.firstactuarial.co.uk or http://www.pensionplaypen.com – you’ll see a common thread- SMALL BUT BEAUTIFUL. Continue reading
Posted in investment, pensions, Personality, Popcorn Pensions, Treasury
Tagged asset maangement, corporate governance, corporate risk, dc pensions, de-risking, Defined benefit pension plan, Employment, first actuarial, Investment Solutions, Pension new, pension playpen, Retirement, Society
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All you never wanted to know about that Pension PlayPen GPP
What are you on about now? http://www.pensionplaypen.com is a website set up to help Britain’s 1.2m employers work out auto-enrolment, adapt their existing workplace pension or get a new one and manage “auto-enrolment for life not just for staging”. As it’s the … Continue reading
The Regulator’s brilliant auto-enrolment website.
It is an example to other Government functions on how to engage with its audience. Continue reading
Get up! Stand up! For your pension rights!
Governance on these schemes cannot be imposed by Government, it needs to happen organically – bottom up. Continue reading
Everybody need standards
Pensions should be as easy to buy as a can of baked beans Continue reading
Posted in auto-enrolment, pension playpen, pensions, social media
Tagged Actuarial science, DWP, Education, first actuarial, pension, pension playpen, Pension Regulator, Steve Webb
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Primavera for the pension playpen
This site will not be for pension people, it will be for people interested in pensions Continue reading
Lord make AE simple – but not yet!
The title refers to Augustine’s prayer “lord make me chaste, but not yet”. It came to mind as I read concern from “industry spokespeople” over the DWP’s announcement to simplify the Auto-Enrolment regulations in time for the staging of the … Continue reading
Posted in auto-enrolment, Payroll, pensions, Retirement
Tagged DWP, Employment, first actuarial, Marks & Spencer, Payroll, Steve Webb, Taylor Wessing, Thomas Aquinas
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People get ready!
If “wave one” so far looks a success, what about waves 2 and 3 and what can the employers preparing to stage in late 2013 and onwards learn? Continue reading
“I felt I’d helped”
What I am most keen to do, is to make sure that the pride that drove the simple words “I felt I helped”, is remembered and used by the youngsters when times get tough again.