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Tag Archives: IA
Cost disclosure now! No more workplace pension NDAs!
Following Julius Pursaill’s excellent piece on value for money yesterday, I’m following up with some practical thoughts. The blog yesterday triggered a meeting with an IGC chair who probed me on the vfm scoring system that has been troubling me … Continue reading
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Tagged disclosure, FCA, IA, IGC, Julius Purssaill, NDA, Transparency, trustee
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Fund cost disclosure, arrived on Friday – and it’s here to stay. L&G IGC report- 2017
We are now well in to the IGC reporting season, where Independent Governance Committees tell us how well the insurers they oversee are behaving. I had had low expectations going into this round, 11 of the key insurers had spent … Continue reading
Alan Miller on price clustering among asset managers.
We recently published new research, backing up the recent FCA Asset Management Study findings regarding price clustering (i.e. cartel like pricing) within the UK fund management industry. SCM Direct analysed the non-index or tracker clean share classes of 683 funds … Continue reading
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Tagged Asset Management Study, CIO, FCA, IA, Price, Price clustering, SCM
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Miller time! A crunching analysis of the FCA’s Asset Management Study.
Asset managers and investment advisers stand accused of complicity in lining their pockets at the expense of unwary and helpless investors. One asset manager (now an adviser) who has never stood by and has always shouted for truth and … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, pensions
Tagged Alan Miller, closet tracker, Gina Miller, IA, Loch Ness Monster, SCM, True and fair
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“Transaction cost disclosure in Workplace Pensions” – #FCA
Most people now have a DC workplace pension and if you haven’t got one you’re either very lucky (as you’re accruing a defined benefit) or one of the 6m marginal employees who are reckoned to be “entitled”, “non-eligible” or … Continue reading
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Tagged charges, costs, FCA, governance, IA, pension, workplace Pensions
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Where next for pensions transparency?
As illegal drugs to your health so hidden charges to your finances Imagine that you were tasked to prevent drugs coming into this country. Would you ask the driver if he had drugs in his vehicle and wave him through … Continue reading
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Tagged auto enrolment, charges, costs, dc pensions, DWP, Government, hidden costs and charges, IA, Pension new, smuggling
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Midsummer Madness as £3.5bn’s lost to real assets!
The Investment Association reported yesterday that jerks kneed £3,500,000,000 out of funds in June – “clearly Brexit has been unsettling, with property and equity funds particularly affected” – the report opined. Well £2.8bn was lost from equity funds and £1.4bn … Continue reading
Playing the personality card
Of all the financial myths that remain unchallenged, the myth of personality is least challenged and most lethal. For it allows the congregation of expert panels/committees/boards – stuffed with perceived “personality” to validate all manner of iniquities. For those personalities … Continue reading
Tactical transparency from the Investment Association
Professional Pensions reports that the Investment Association (IA) have appointed senior pension figures to advise the it on a new disclosure code for investment costs. Helen Morrisey, the paper’s editor is optimistic I’m sure the process will be challenging but … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, Daniel Godfrey, DWP, FCA, IA, Investment Association, pension, TPR, Transaction costs, Transparency, Transparency Task Force, Treasury
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How can IGCs engage people with their pensions?
There are three measures by which I am judging the IGC Chair reports Do they speak with a proper tone of voice Do they show themselves effective in dealing with the provider they are governing Have they properly addressed whether … Continue reading
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Tagged ABI, Business, Business and Economy, corporate governance, corporate risk, DWP, FCA, governance, IA, IGC, Insurers, National Employment Savings Trust, NEST, pension, Pension new, pension playpen, pensions, Ros Altmann, TPR, workplace Pensions
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