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Worrying times for NEST

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“Buying a Retirement Income” from an RIP

I’m sure the panelled annuitants or Retirement Income Providers (hereafter known as RIPs) are feeling pretty comfortable about life this morning.

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“You’re on your own in retirement” claims blue-blood at Pension Play Pen lunch.

Dick Strattan gives collective DC a kick in the nuts.
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The plan behind Munich Re’s corporate orgy

Gott und Himmell ve vill make their little winkels into frankfurters.
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Is personality an unrewarded risk?

Face it – I am your unrewarded risk.
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We can negotiate our DC charges (and it does matter!)

CHARGES ARE ABOUT THE ONLY FEATURE OF OUR PENSION PLAN DESIGN THAT WE CAN CONTROL.

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Why your personal pension/FSAVC may be worthless.

The question that the insurers and possibly the law courts need to answer is whether they will compensate their policyholders for mis-buying?
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Jimmy there’s still so much to be done

Harnessing the power of fun to get things done.

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Moving on..dealing with our DC legacy.

History suggests that legacy DC plans will be abandoned as so many of the individuals sold s226 and mark one personal pensions were abandoned.
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Clearing up a few things about pensions

We may need Superchoice to do our clearing up.

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