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Tag Archives: jo cumbo
Jo’s pension manifesto
Sometimes someone comes out with a simple statement that makes sense of all the noise. Jo Cumbo launched her pension manifesto in the pages of Pensions Expert this week and I don’t want them to be lost to readers of … Continue reading
Jo Cumbo has a plan (well she will do soon!)
It’s good to hear from Jo Cumbo that she’ll be turning her retirement savings into a retirement plan. I hope this link works for you (purchased at considerable expense by me). If it does, you can read for yourself how … Continue reading
FCA plan to get tough on poor transfer advice
Two unexpected things happened yesterday; SJP’s candidate for the “fireside chat” with the FCA – went sick (with no replacement offered) and the FCA published their market- wide data results for defined benefit transfers. Together this meant my fireside chat … Continue reading
MPs call the conflicts of contingent charging
FCA under renewed pressure from MPs to ban contingent charging for #pensions advice https://t.co/ET5dOtTcKI — Josephine Cumbo (@JosephineCumbo) May 16, 2019 This is good news. The pressure on the FCA to ban contingent charging for pension advice must continue. Because … Continue reading
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Tagged charging, Contingent, FCA, jo cumbo, Nick Smith, pensions, W&P Select
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Doctor heal thyself? Where do NHSPS members get help on their pensions?
Listeners to Paul Lewis’ MoneyBox were treated yesterday to a lively debatebetween Jo Cumbo , John Ralfe and Paul Lewis. While interpretations of the problems facing the NHS and in particular the NHS pension scheme and its membership … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, age wage, pensions
Tagged jo cumbo, John Ralfe, NHSPS, Paul Lewis, pensions, Taper
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Get up, stand up, for your pension rights
Josephine Cumbo has written an important blog in Pensions Expert. If you aren’t registered to see the article, I urge you to do so. Access to the article is free and it pretty well sums up my … Continue reading
BSPS – is the “dam breaking”
The imagination of Al Rush is stirred by deeds of the RAF so I smiled to see this Facebook post. Being on the other side of the planet, I had not picked up on this press release from the FCA. … Continue reading
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Tagged Al Rush, BSPS, dam, dambusters, jo cumbo, justice, pensions
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“We want freedom and choice and we want simplification too”.
Pensions. Tax. Benefits. Each over-complex. When combined: lethal. We shouldn’t blame pension freedoms for the mistakes caused by governments’ habit of making everything too complicated. We want freedom and choice and we want simplification too. — Stuart Fowler (@fowlerdrew) February … Continue reading
Pension dashboard stitch-up exposed!
I find myself the horns of a dilemma. I violently disagree with the ABI, Origo and at least two of the big master trusts. In particular I disagree with People’s Pension, who normally I agree with and Gregg McClymont- one … Continue reading
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Tagged Dashboard, Gregg McClymont, jo cumbo, pensions, Pensions Dashboard, Romi Samova
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Trustees and transfers
Jo Cumbo’s article in Pensions Expert on contingent charging takes a dim view of trustee behaviour to date. Her idea that advice to stay in a DB scheme could be paid for by docking the original pension has got some … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrian Boulding, jo cumbo, pensions, Phil Yound, SJP, transfers, trustees
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