Tag Archives: GAA
FCA to tame the drawdown bucking bronco!
Yesterday was a good news day for people concerned about retirement income. The FCA made two meaningful statements on what it intends to do to help ordinary people trying to manage their in retirement finances. The first was the … Continue reading
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Tagged AgeWage, charges, Drawdown, FCA, GAA, governance, IGC, investment pathways, pensions, SIPP
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Did the 2018 IGC reports meet today’s challenges? Only in part.
The table above reports on the various ratings given to IGC reports in 2018, it includes the GAA report of St James Place that is good enough to be an IGC report. I said, when I set out … Continue reading
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Tagged CDC, DB transfers, decumulaiton, GAA, IGC, master trust, pensions, Responisble investment
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SJPEXIT and its implications.
Reading Colin Richardson’s excellent Governance Advisory Arrangement (GAA) report on SJP, I realised just how tough it is for anyone who doesn’t work for St James Place to take any sort of decision on an SJP Pension. Here – for … Continue reading
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Tagged Colin richardson, GAA, pensions, SJP, SJPexit, Value for Money
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SJP policyholders deserve an IGC. They have a great GAA – but that’s not enough!
St James Place is one of Britain’s largest financial institutions, it is a FTSE 100 company with 2017 revenues of over £9bn. It is therefore surprising that its exposure to workplace pensions is so limited that it does not need … Continue reading
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Tagged GAA, Hargreaves Lansdown, IGC, pensions, SIPP, SJP, wealth management
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How IGCs help employers (and their advisers)
If you read the terms of reference or Chair reports of the IGCs (and GAAs) , it’s the “member” on whom the work is focussed and for whom the reports are written. “Member” is short-hand for policy holder as in … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, customers, employers, Employment, FCA, Financial services, GAA, governance, IGC, members, pension, pensions, Retirement, TCF
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Help of the helpless – the destitute world of the GAA
The words of the song are apt for the Governance Advisory Arrangements I have read. With the exception of that of Mobius they are either elegies for what might have been or a convenient way of getting round … Continue reading
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Tagged Equitable, GAA, Gaurdian, Governance Advisory Arrangement, Mobius Life, St James Place, Wesleyan
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IGCs and the Transparency Task Force
This is an article that will appear in the Transparency Times, Andy Agethangelou’s online paper that will appear later this month. I am a big fan of the Tranparency TaskForce and also the publishing venture! If you aren’t a part of … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Agethangelou, charges, costs, GAA, IGC, stewardship, Transparency, transparency symposium, Transparency Task Force, Value for Money
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IGCs – 6 months in – a worrying lack of diversity.
In April 2015, insurers offering personal pension contracts were required to set up Independent Governance Committees as a result of the findings of a study by the Office of Fair Trading that concluded Also in April 2015, the FCA issues a … Continue reading