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Tag Archives: internet
Where’s best to build my retirement savings?
The flight to investment continues. Savers – Lord knows why – don’t appreciate rates of interest of less than 1%. When the talk turns to us paying banks to keep our money, thoughts turn to investment in real things- … Continue reading
“Dragging pensions out of the digital stone age”
New data today. Record numbers are using the internet. Record numbers are also investing in pensions. You’d never know. We must drag pensions out of the digital stone age. https://t.co/j3To2IpsmP pic.twitter.com/T4XErS6jqo — Alistair McQueen (@HelloMcQueen) August 7, 2020 I was … Continue reading
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Tagged Alastair McQueen, API, Aviva, internet, pensions
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A library of COVID-19 actuarial responses
When I posted this library, the actuaries who’ve blogged had no central library of their work. So I published their articles on my blog and curated them here. All the articles they’ve written have also been published on linked in … Continue reading
Posted in actuaries, age wage, coronavirus, pensions
Tagged Actuarial response, COVID19, internet, Stuart McDonald
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Pensions need a “dashboard-ready” standard
Jo Cumbo has called out the “elephant in the room” as the data quality of the pension schemes that look after our money , our data and our resources for security in retirement. If data is money them money is … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, age wage, Dashboard, dc pensions, pensions
Tagged chris sier, Dashboard ready, DWP, internet, pension, pensions
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Concerns about Pension Dashboard transparency (and how to calm them)
“The Pensions Schemes Bill makes provision for Pensions Dashboards which will provide everyone with clear simple access to all of their pension information on one portal”. This quote, from Francis Goss, who is on the dashboard working group, tells … Continue reading
Getting youngsters saving more
Telling youngsters to save more is a waste of time It’s been a sad 48 hours on twitter watching the wolf pack turn on Paul Claireaux for his cappuccino blog – where Paul postulates that a youngster could have a … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, age wage, pensions
Tagged ESG, internet, millennials, pension, Responsible, Saving, spending
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AgeWage is closing its investment round (but you’ve still got a week to invest)
http://www.seedrs.com/agewage We’ll be closing our investment round with Seedrs on Friday 24th May. As I write, that gives readers a week to invest. You invest by clicking the link above, if you want to invest more than £5,000, drop henry@agewage.com … Continue reading
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Tagged AgeWage, Funding, internet, pensions, Seedrs, WordPress
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Buy and Suppress the pensions dashboard
I designed, launched and sold the first – and still only – Norwegian pension dashboard some 15 yrs ago. “norskpensjon.no” is the pension dashboard service that the Norwegian pension providers, after we gained traction with it, insisted that they should … Continue reading
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Tagged advice, Asmund Paulsen, Dashboard, internet, Pension Dashboard, pensions, Technology
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Why can’t we talk about money without paying for advice?
Iona Bain has been travelling around Britain finding out what young people are doing to get help with their finances. She has documented her findings in a great FT article Shunned by traditional advisers, younger investors use apps and … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, age wage, pensions
Tagged AgeWage, internet, Iona Bain, Lottie Meggitt, Olly Tapper, pensions, Young Money Blog
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CDC – cons diminish confidence!
I am fairly confident that before the end of October, before even next week’s budget, the DWP will consult on CDC. We are told by the Pensions Minister , that the test case is Royal Mail but that legislation will … Continue reading
Posted in CDC, pensions
Tagged blockchain, CDC, Confidence, internet, ledger, pension
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