Tag Archives: Insurance
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
Posted in actuaries, advice gap, annuity, auto-enrolment
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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Is our pension scheme good enough for auto-enrolment?
Today, assessing whether your existing pension qualifies for auto-enrolment is easy. Continue reading
Posted in annuity, auto-enrolment
Tagged Consultant, Default (finance), Government, Insurance, Investment, National Employment Savings Trust, OFT, pension
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Let’s give pensions leaders the chance to lead
I asked him whether he thought the Dutch pension system superior to the UK’s and he laughed “of course it is, it delivers better outcomes”. Continue reading
Nudge nudge – pension truths we can’t spin but can explain!
You don’t need to search too hard these days to get to the real facts and the sooner we start using the tools at our disposal to explain why things are as they are, the better.
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“My word is my Eurobond” – pensions without banks
We have become so obsessed with the paradigm created by Megabank that we consider a “limited level of positive return..guaranteed” something to aspire to. Continue reading
All you never wanted to know about that Pension PlayPen GPP
What are you on about now? http://www.pensionplaypen.com is a website set up to help Britain’s 1.2m employers work out auto-enrolment, adapt their existing workplace pension or get a new one and manage “auto-enrolment for life not just for staging”. As it’s the … Continue reading