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How will employers chose their pension plans?
As everyone should now know, employers are going to have to provide a pension plan and some money to fund their staff’s retirement. The rules and guidance are complex but the idea is simple – “you’re in”. But “in” to what. … Continue reading
Posted in actuaries, annuity, auto-enrolment, dc pensions, Management, NEST, pensions
Tagged Business, Employment, Human Resources, Insurance, National Employment Savings Trust, Payroll, pension, Solution
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Auto-enrolment;- the story so far
Payroll managers are playing an increasingly important role in the formation of their business’ pension strategies. Continue reading
Posted in auto-enrolment, leadership, pension playpen, pensions
Tagged Centrica, Employment, Human Resources, Marks & Spencer, Morrisons, Payroll, pension, Tesco
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DC isn’t working says Hymans Robertson- I agree – let’s change that!
Pensions apathy from companies and employees is creating a new labour headache for UK PLC and delivering poor outcomes for employees on their pensions. Suspicions that defined contribution (DC) company pensions are failing have been confirmed in a new report by … Continue reading
Posted in actuaries, annuity, auto-enrolment
Tagged Defined benefit pension plan, Employment, Government, Human Resources, October, pension, Retirement, Steve Webb
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“Ambitious” pensions can save you from staging a disaster
Organisations with 500 or more employees have been written to recently by the DWP with a reminder that in 2013 they have to “stage” auto-enrolment. Companies which historically provide and promote pensions to their staff will take all this in their stride But staging … Continue reading
Reformation The Mallowstreet Party
Vincent Franklin looked out from what used to be the roof of City Telephone Exchange. The Exchange (according to Con Keating) had walls fifteen metres thick and had been built to withstand a nuclear bomb. They’d pulled it down to … Continue reading
Posted in Bankers, Change, Church of England, corporate governance, economics, Fred Goodwin, leadership, mallowstreet, Olympics, Olympics 2012, pension playpen, pensions, redington, Retirement
Tagged Business, dc pensions, Financial services, Human Resources, pension playpen, Pension Poverty, pensions, Retirement, Society
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Why First Actuarial focuses on Payroll
According to a survey published this week by the CIPP , payroll will take charge of implementing auto-enrolment at 40%, HR at 29% and pension providers/departments at 13% of employers. Yet most pension advisers are still reluctant to talk with payroll professionals about the staging … Continue reading
Posted in auto-enrolment
Tagged Actuarial science, Business, Business process mapping, DWP, Employment, Human Resources, October, Payroll, Payroll World, pension, Small business
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Auto-enrolment – working out who does what.
The hard part in establishing a process to stage auto enrolment and manage it each payroll period is not working out what needs to be done. Process maps exist that will help you understand the scope and complexity of the task. It’s the … Continue reading
Good boss / bad boss
1. Business is a playground, not a battlefield. Average bosses see business as a conflict between companies, departments and groups. They build huge armies of “troops” to order about, demonize competitors as “enemies,” and treat customers as “territory” to be … Continue reading
Posted in Management
Tagged boss, Business, Company, Control (management), Decision making, Employment, Human, Human Resources
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A hunger to educate – more on Popcorn Pensions
Hunger is not a word you’d associate with actuaries. One of our clients described the team working for her as “happy puppies” who approached the task of educating members with ” hunger“. These are not words that exist in the … Continue reading
Posted in annuity, auto-enrolment, customer service, dc pensions, happiness, Henry Tapper blog, mallowstreet, Management, pension playpen, pensions, social media, Treasury
Tagged Actuarial science, Actuary, Business, Employment, Financial services, Human Resources, National Employment Savings Trust
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Popcorn pensions
I was sitting in Kentucky Fried Chicken with my friend Mr Peter Shellswell last week. We were eating the salad in case you are wondering. Popcorn chicken and gravy is my fave but we’d decided to be good. Continue reading
Posted in auto-enrolment, corporate governance, customer service, dc pensions, de-risking, EU Solvency II, Fiduciary Management, mallowstreet, pension playpen, Retirement, social media
Tagged Business, Canada, Defined benefit pension plan, Employment, Human Resources, Ken Dodd, regulation
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