Tag Archives: Human Resources

Employers can help staff with their money – if only we’d let them

It’s time companies got their mojo back and got real with staff. Www.pensionplaypen.com helps to do just that. Continue reading

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Good with food – not so good with money.

The sad events at the Co-operative Bank this year are not the first financial services scandal to hit the Co-operative movements. Less publicised but no less carnal, was the behaviour of the management of Co-operative Insurance Services (CIS) who were … Continue reading

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Why bother to save? – Invest instead!

What this policy is about is getting people to invest in real assets for the best interests in society Continue reading

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King Canute got governance about right!

If we are to become as effective in the management of our pension funds as our German and Dutch cousins, we are going to have learn the lessons of Canute and concentrate our governance though centralised channels focussing on things we can do something about. Continue reading

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You have sat too long…non-performing DC trust boards should go

The biggest threat to workplace pensions in this country is political. The next election will be fought on a growth agenda and every Government department (other than the DWP) will be taking a long hard look at the employer duties … Continue reading

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Giving “pensions” back its good name!

What do we mean by Pension Governance? When we listen to a musical recording what we hear is the perfect balance between instruments achieved by expert mixing. Pensions Governance does that mixing job for your workplace pension , making sure … Continue reading

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All you never wanted to know about that Pension PlayPen GPP

What are you on about now? http://www.pensionplaypen.com is a website set up to help Britain’s 1.2m employers work out auto-enrolment, adapt their existing workplace pension or get a new one and manage “auto-enrolment for life not just for staging”. As it’s the … Continue reading

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It’s not a capacity crunch it’s a traffic jam

the nature of the problem changes but the scale of the problem remains the same Continue reading

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Why bloggers won’t replace journalists

She gets the aggregates and cements, mixes the concrete , lays it and sells the building! Continue reading

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A momentous day for restoring confidence in UK pensions

We cannot have confidence in a system where member’s pensions can be impacted by as much as 30% though advisory arbitrage. Continue reading

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