Tag Archives: Frank Field
Get off your boat, get back to the Regulator, go and write a whacking big cheque.
A paraphrase of Frank Field’s advice to (Sir) Philip Green, after the publication of a damning report into the failure of governance that Green created in his 15 years in charge of BHS. Here is his press comment “One person, … Continue reading
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Tagged BIS, Business, Chappell, DWP, Frank Field, Green Shield Stamp, pension, Philip Green, ppf, TPR
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Shutting the stable door?
We probably know more about the solvency of our defined benefit pension schemes than we have ever done. They are subject to rigorous examination by Experian who stress test them for failure to calculate their levy to the Pension … Continue reading
Putting yourself second – what a boss should do.
There is no law that says you should be polite. Standing aside from someone getting off a train, opening doors for the elderly and those with push-chairs, paying your pension bills before paying your dividend, these are all things we … Continue reading
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Tagged BHS, Frank Field, justice, law, Pensions Regulator, Philip Green
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Is work – are pensions (and is life) fair?
Reading the scope of the DWP Select Committee’s new enquiry into intergenerational fairness had me grasping for my video copy of the Meaning of Life. The inquiry aims to answer the question of whether the current generation of people in … Continue reading
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Tagged DWP, Fairness, Frank Field, Monty Python, Paul Lewis, Steve Webb
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“Confusion rife!” and not just over the new state pension.
The DWP Select Committee has published its report “Understanding the New State Pension” this morning. The accompanying Press release calls for clear statements of entitlement while stopping short of calling for changes to those entitlements. The Work and Pensions Committee’s … Continue reading
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Tagged annuity, auto enrolment, Business, dc pensions, Defined benefit pension plan, DWP, DWP select committee, Employment, Financial services, Frank Field, National Employment Savings Trust, New State Pension, pension, Pension new, pensions, Retirement, Ros Altmann, state pension, Steve Webb
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Hats off to Steve Webb for our new pensions system!
It’s good to see the publication of the DWP’s white paper Security in Retirement – towards a new pension system. It announces an initiative first promoted by Frank Field in the late 1990s but thought then “unthinkable”;. While I agree with … Continue reading
“The older I get, the less I trust my pension!”
An interesting observation from Gerry Barwell in 140 characters When I interview consumers on AE/ wider pensions – the barrier of mistrust is significant. Less so in the young but for 40+ Which gives us the opportunity to speculate on … Continue reading
“Good Retirement Outcomes ” – pension babble?
My friend David Harris got the great, the good and me in an upstairs room in Benjamin Franklin’s old house in Craven Street last night. We discussed what pensions would be like in 2020, my ideas are on this blog … Continue reading
Posted in pension playpen, pensions, Personal Accounts
Tagged Benjamin Franklin, David Cameron, Frank Field, God, Government, Life annuity, pension, Retirement
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IFEs not IFAs
If you’ve followed my posts over the past few days, you’ll l know I’ve referred to a debate between advisers, insurers, pension managers and trustees which started out discussing the ethics of incentivizing enhanced transfer values and has moved toi discussing how and when advice … Continue reading
Posted in annuity, corporate governance, dc pensions, de-risking, EU Solvency II, Liability Driven Investment, pensions, Retail Distribution Review, Retirement, Treasury
Tagged annuity, corporate governance, dc pensions, de-risking, Economics, Employment, EU Solvency II, Financial adviser, Frank Field, Human Resources, Independent Financial Adviser, Liability Driven Investment, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, pensions, Peter Flanagan, Politics, Proto-Indo-European language, Retail Distribution Review, Retirement, Treasury, trustee, Trustees
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Happiness and harm
Time will tell whether the Coalition Government has created a credible and sustainable system which allows us to measure and understand “government finances and the structure of the State”.
Posted in dc pensions, NEST, pensions, Retirement, Treasury
Tagged Basic State Pension, David Cameron, dc pensions, Diane Coyle, Economics, Frank Field, John Stuart Mill, NEST, pension, Pension Poverty, pensions, Poverty, public sector, Public Sector Pensions, Retirement, Society, Treasury
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