Tag Archives: Frank Field
Let’s make “Legacy” a thing of the past.
It’s hard not to feel a twinge of sympathy for Richard Smith. Concur with that. Those working with the 6% don’t. Comments on my document haven’t gone down that well – then again, I wasn’t really expecting it to be … Continue reading
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Tagged Balzac, Frank Field, legacy, pension, Policy, Transparency, WPC
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Higher costs – lower pay-outs? Fact or fiction.
This is the first of seven blogs I will write, that will by September 3rd, form my submission to the Work and Pension Select Committee’s inquiry into pension transparency. Today’s exam question is; Do higher-cost providers deliver higher performance, or simply … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, age wage, pensions, WPC
Tagged Frank Field, pensions, Value for Money, VFM, WPC
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Con Keating on the Rules of Evidence and The Defined Benefit White Paper.
This post is from Con Keating and first appeared in Portfolio Institutional Alongside its new DB white paper (Protecting Defined Benefit Pension Schemes) the Department of Work and Pensions published a summary of the responses to the earlier DB Green … Continue reading
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Tagged Con Keating, DB, defined benefit, Frank Field, pensions
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Frank Field helps us spend our pensions
Here is the main recommendation of Frank Field and the Workplace Pension Select Committee’sfinal report of its inquiry into Pension freedom and choice published today. We recommend every pension provider offering drawdown is required, by April 2019, to offer a default … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, auto-enrolment, Big Government, pensions
Tagged CDC, Frank Field, Mid life MOT, NEST, pensions, Pensions Dashboard, Work and Pensions Selecto Comittee
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Westminster rocks as Minister pledges support for CDC.
There was a good news story playing out in Committee Room 6 of the Westminster Palace yesterday morning. A good news story, that is, if you fancy a pension from your workplace pension scheme. … Continue reading
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Tagged CDC, Frank Field, pensions, Ronan Keating, Ronan O'Connor, westminster
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My call for an end to contingent fees on DB pension transfers
Calls to keep contingent pricing fall on my deaf ears. I champion the pension rights of those with low incomes and I champion the rights of those likely to get lower pensions (women). I don’t champion the right of … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, pensions
Tagged advice, CETV, DB transfers, Debbie Abrahams, Frank Field, Guy Opperman, IFA, Jack Dromey, pensions, tax free cash
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A good day for pensions, a good day for the DC upgrade.
We will know we have a solution when we don’t need guns. Overnight I heard the President of the United States deliver his solution to the gun crisis in American schools. To prevent more mass shootings, Donald Trump suggested that American teachers … Continue reading
Posted in CDC, pensions
Tagged CDC, DC upgrade, Frank Field, pensions, risk sharing, Royal Mail, Work and Pensions Select
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Frank Field and the “two worlds” of pensions.
On Thursday 13th December the Workplace and Pensions Select Committee took evidence from a variety of people with an interest in the choices members have to take as part of Time to Choose, but in the context of the … Continue reading
Posted in BSPS, pensions
Tagged Al Rush, BSPS, FCA, Frank Field, Megan Butler, pensions, The Pensions Regulator
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A method for the madness. Is the DWP Select Committee – pension’s best hope?
The diverse agenda of the DWP Select Committee might be considered madness. I am not going to write that their is method in this madness as it’s clear to me that we cannot properly consider freedoms, without looking at CDC for … Continue reading
Posted in drawdown, DWP, governance, Henry Tapper blog, pensions
Tagged Al Rush, CDC, Con Keating, DWP select committee, Frank Field, pensions
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A time of trust – not guarantees.
About the time that I was ranting to TISA about the complacency with which we are dismantling the retirement promises made to those who were promised a DB pension based on the years they worked with the company;- this happened! … Continue reading
Posted in CDC, DWP, FSA, Music, pensions
Tagged alex Cunningham, annuity, BHS, BSPS, DWP, FCA, Frank Field, Labour, pensions, Royal Mail, TPR, USS
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