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I give up on VFM for pensions and so does Guy Opperman, I like the guy!
I don’t suppose that former Minister Guy Opperman knew he would be reported at the Aptia conference yesterday. He works for them a couple of days a month and was delivering the kind of comments that would have gone down … Continue reading
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Tagged Aptia, Business, CDC, DWP, FCA, Guy Opperman, pension, Pensions, Retirement, TPR, Value for Money, VFM
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The Grand National – did your Dad ride in it? Did you win like Guy Opperman?
It’s something to remember back to distant off Grand Nationals but another to have a photo of your Dad riding in it! 60 years since my dad rode in the 1966 #GrandNational as an amateur (white colours jumping the chair … Continue reading
Pension Mandation and “the irrelevance of the Lords as a talking shop”
Guy Opperman may not be a part of the Labour Government but he understands how governments work and why the protest from those arguing for fiduciary freedom will not be granted the amendment the House of Lords has sent downstairs … Continue reading
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Tagged Guy Opperman, House of Lords, Irrelevent, Labour, Mandation, Pensions, ping pong, Torsten Bell
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Therese Coffey – please stay out of the pension debate.
I am surprised that a former DWP Secretary of State who played little part in pension policy when the Conservatives were in power is now loud in the upper house and on social media. There is nothing in this that … Continue reading
Outside the trains don’t run on time
It was a joy to host a meeting yesterday of some 60 colleagues with a common interest in meeting the needs of ordinary people who want a pension from their workplace pension. We heard for openers from Guy Opperman and … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Haldane, annuity, Edi Truell, Guy Opperman, Margaret Snowdon, Pension Superhaven, Pensions
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CDC – what can it deliver? I’m at the IFOA today to find out.
I’m off to the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries this morning with certain friends to find out about the state of play for CDC in the UK. As readers know, I am a long-time fan of the aims of … Continue reading
The pension dashboard needs more than a reset – it needs a rethink.
The dashboard is being delayed again. Team PDP is already four years late getting the pension dashboard crossing the line but our grand-prix racecar is in the best of hands – even with that retro-refuelling pipe! It was originally intended … Continue reading
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Tagged Chris Curry, DWP, Guy Opperman, Laura Trott, MAPS, PDP, Pension Dashboard
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We are sick not slothful – LCP’s analysis of the older “non-worker”.
We are sick not slothful For some months, the messaging coming our of Government is that we must get the over fifties,630,000 of whom have gone missing , back to work. The absence of my generation from the workplace has … Continue reading
MOT the ambulance and get us back to work!
Are pensions stopping us working? This article is about a report on the front page of today’s Daily Telegraph which has Chancellor Jeremy Hunt openly talking about giving another tax break to rich old gits like me to encourage us … Continue reading
It’ll take more than a nudge to get us back to work!
The Minister for employment is keen to nudge us back to work The UK’s unemployment rate is close to its lowest level since the 1970s. But that’s not the whole story. About a quarter of people of working-age – … Continue reading