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“London Super Sewer Faces Funding Probe” – how dirty is that?
Muck is in the air The headline’s from the FT, about as close as that rag will get to pure filth. Sadly I am far from a shop and unwilling to avail myself of the FT’s premium on-line new service … Continue reading
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Tagged filth, ft, London Super Sewer, Muck, Probe, Super Sewer, swer
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Will the transparency Zeitgeist pervade the FCA?
The Financial Times is reporting that the Association of Member Nominated Trustees are ready to exercise muscle to get to the bottom of what we are paying for charges. This is really good news ; but before we get too … Continue reading
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Tagged AMNT, FCA, ft, fund managers, jo cumbo, novarca, pensions, State Street, Transparency, Transparency Task Force, Zeitgeist
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A transparent press is an honest press.
The “Breaking News” in Britain’s financial press is that City AM is tearing down the divide between editorial and advertising and giving the people who pay for their site, the chance to run a section of their (digital) paper. Running … Continue reading
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Tagged City AM, Employment, Financial services, Financial Times, ft, journalism, Pay-wall, Transparency
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Independent and inter-dependent!
Two top journos go nose to nose- the usual suspects winding them up, it has all the ingredients of the weigh-in …before a 15 rounder! But it’s more complicated. Jo is employed by the FT and protective of its business … Continue reading
The Transparency Zeitgeist is upon us
I am a frugal man, the £3.50 I paid for this morning’s FT was grudgingly passed to my newsagent. But I wanted to capture the headline and read about Josephine’s reporting of a meeting with my friends Andy Agethangelou and … Continue reading
“Sexy-Cash” is back – with tPR’s blessing?
Some years back, the then pensions minister Steve Webb waved a Boots’ pension offer in the faces of a bemused NAPF audience and berated “sexy-cash pension offers”. Boots were offering staff cash inducements to leave a pension scheme … Continue reading
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Tagged auto enrolment, Cash, ETV, ft, inducement, josephine cumbo, pensions, Retirement, Sexy-cash
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Net pay schemes – 5 chances – then name and shame employers!
The Pension Minister is threatening to require employers who run net pay pension schemes that disadvantage staff to compensate those low-paid individuals who lose out on tax relief. The majority of the tax relief foregone is on contributions to Government … Continue reading
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Tagged Compensation, DWP, ft, jo cumbo, net-pay, pensions, Pensions Minister, Pensions Regualtor, relief at source, Ros Altmann, TPR
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The Public Accounts Committee on Auto-Enrolment – (tweets on DWP/tPR and NEST)
I’m not sure a blog has ever been written around one person’s tweets of an event, but Jo Cumbo’s online reporting of the Public Accounts Committee’s session on auto-enrolment is so excellent that I thought to hand over to her … Continue reading
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Tagged Accountability, Ato-enrolment, DWP, ft, jo cumbo, NEST, parliament, pubilc accounts committee, TPR, tweeps, twitter
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TPR gets a kicking from Altmann on “Workplace Pension Choice”.
In a spectacular piece of reporting, the FT’s Josephine Cumbo has exposed a structural weakness at the centre of Auto-Enrolment;- the failure of the Pension Regulator, the advisory trade bodies and the FCA to provide proper guidance to our 1.8m employers … Continue reading