Tag Archives: Legal and General

One small step for payroll, one giant leap for auto-enrolment.

There have been two events over the past couple of weeks that I think we’ll look back to as tipping points in the auto-enrolment staging timeline. Till now, employers have had no choice but to send and collect data to … Continue reading

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NOW – that’s what I call a puzzler!

NOW Pension’s decision to charge new customers £40pm from October has not gone down well with supporting intermediaries. One grumpy accountant commented  We have one client already signed up with Now and about to stage in two weeks. As I … Continue reading

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Why we want PENSION AWARENESS every day!

It’s been a week of contrasts for me On Wednesday I spent time in the splendour of Mayfair’s Claridge’s Hotel learning how Legal and General were designing products to help people in retirement. On Thursday I was in the Kingsley … Continue reading

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Mobilising millions – training employers on AE.

Who is going to mobilise the millions of bosses still to stage auto-enrolment? There are not 1.3m but 1.8m employers in the UK who will need to stage auto-enrolment.Of these , all but around 65,000, more than 1,790,000 employers have … Continue reading

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FINANCIAL UNDERSTANDING – what one insurer’s doing to improve things.

A lot of people think that big financial institutions prey upon the ignorance of the public. Many have, many have treated their customers as seals to be clubbed on the beach. Part of the problem for insurers was that they … Continue reading

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The enormous importance of Legal and General

  If one insurer has done more than any other for workplace pensions it is Legal & General. For early stagers like Marks & Spencer they opened a master trust , they were the first insurer to adopt clean 50bps … Continue reading

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