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Visualising retirement with the Pension Dashboard (lessons from Denmark and R Smith!)
There was an agreement in 2020 that the pension dashboard would publish details of people’s DC pots as “pensions” using SMPI numbers to offer people an Estimated Retirement Income (ERI). Speaking with Richard Smith I got the impression … Continue reading
I took her CDC baited hook and was landed by Jo Cumbo!
Following this year’s Pensions UK investment conference I was told that my press badge would not be renewed. I was not a journalist and I spent too much time expounding my commercial views and not enough the views of other. … Continue reading
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Tagged CDC, ft, increases, jo cumbo, Journalist, Pensions, salesman
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The idea that members will get pension pay increased from Stagecoach’s surplus “interesting”.
I am amazed that people like Sammy at Rothesay see deals that do ordinary people good as bad news to me! I am aware that many people are fed up that they did not do the deal for Stagecoach but … Continue reading
How you can support pensioners being cheated out of their pension increases
A lot of those losing out on their pension is coming down as elderly pensioners die with no restitution, let’s not let it happen – find your MP’s address and send by email or Royal Mail, this letter. Linked-in does … Continue reading
Do we need a guidance guarantee? Will VFM and the Pension Dashboard do?
In 2014, the pension freedoms came with a Guidance guarantee. It is still in place but little used. It has been overtaken by the pension platform and most recently by the decumulation defaults introduced by the Pension Schemes Bill. The … Continue reading
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Tagged flexibility, increases, pension, rates, Security, Value for Money
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From gold to rust – time to sort pensioner pay?
The story is a simple one. Hundreds of thousands of people who have defined benefit pension rights built up before 1997 have not and are not getting any increases on their DB pensions. Most pensioners in private sector DB plans … Continue reading