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“What’s it like to be retired?”
It could be the trending chant at any event that Alex Ferguson turns up to – a taunt to a man who having lost control has seen slump into mundanity in a few short months. Financial wellbeing in later life … Continue reading
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Tagged annuity, Defined benefit pension plan, DWP, Employment, Financial services, Human Resources, ILC, Insurance, Investment, Life annuity, London, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, Pension Poverty, Pension Protection Fund, Pension Regulator, pensions, Politics, Public Sector Pensions, Retirement, SDAI, Society, Steve Webb, United States, University of Bristol
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Too big to worry about – what’s should we do about State Street?
I wrote yesterday about State Street’s £22.9m fine from the FCA for stealing $20.2m from 6 large clients. Whether this was all the money stolen or whether these were the clients who they found out about is not mentioned. We’ll … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, dc pensions, Employment, Government, Insurance, NEST, pension, Scottish Widows, SSgam, State Street
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The ABI’s 10 problems with CDC – with 10 answers!
The ABI have 10 problems with Steve Webb’s collective DC plan, articulated as follows by Huw Davies , their Director of Policy. As usual his is a constructive outcome focussed argument as you’d expect from an organisation devoted to making the lot of Britain’s … Continue reading
Posted in CDC, Change, pensions, Retirement
Tagged Business, dc pensions, DWP, Government, Insurance, pension, pensions, Steve Webb
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Let’s fix broken pensions, not start again.
The answer lies in doing things better, not doing things new Continue reading
Getting use to managing pensions ourselves
The ideas of personal financial empowerment and independent financial advice grew up hand in hand. But they are mutually exclsusive concepts and ill-matched bedfellows. Now that we have the means to do it ourselves, we need to be allowed to. … Continue reading
Can TISA hit out on pension transfers.
Who knows, we might even have pot follows member one day. Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, corporate governance, customer service, investment, pension playpen
Tagged Business, Financial services, Insurance, pension, Pension Regulator, pensions, Pot
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Guaranteeing second rate outcomes is not ambitious!
Let’s get the issue in focus; defined ambition is not about giving people certainty about their pension savings, it is about being more ambitious about the outcomes they get for saving. For employers who are prepared to make a pension promise, we … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, Employment, Financial services, Government, Insurance, pensions, Retirement, Steve Webb
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At last – a gameplan for annuities
The Financial Services Consumer Panel has published a report into the current state of the UK retail annuity market. It is not a glamorous document, it examines the way the market is working and concludes it it not working very … Continue reading
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
Posted in annuity, auto-enrolment, Bankers, Change, club pension, Management, Mark Carney, pensions, social media, workplace pensions
Tagged BOE, Business, Business and Economy, Defined benefit pension plan, Employment, Fiscal, Government, Human Resources, Inflation, Insurance, interest, Mark Carney, monetary, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, rates, Retirement
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How safe is my pension?
This is one of the five most commonly asked questions I’ve been asked in my time advising members of workplace pensions in the past 25 years. In that time I have only advised on one scheme where members lost their … Continue reading
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Tagged Actuarial science, Business and Economy, corporate risk, England, Facebook, Government, Insurance, Investing, London, pension, Pension new, Pension Poverty, pensions, Retirement, Steve Webb
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