Tag Archives: Lloyds Banking Group
“Asleep at the wheel” The Millers catalogue our regulatory woes.
Campaigner Gina Miller is asking for an Independent Review of the Appointment of the Next Governor of the Bank of England and the FCA in the Face of a Catalogue of Regulatory Failures Leading to Catastrophic Consumer Detriment The True … Continue reading
Posted in FCA, Financial Conduct Authority, pensions
Tagged Alan Miller, BOE, FCA, Gina Miller, HBOS, Lloyds Banking Group, pensions, regualtion
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Let’s not slide back into the swamp!
After what they must consider a “decent period”, the insurers and the bankers have reappeared from the slimy depths like Grendel out to wreak revenge on consumers protected too long by Europe. The insurance and pensions industry is calling for … Continue reading
Posted in Bankers, Big Government, Brexit, pensions
Tagged ABI, Beowulf, Brexit, FCA, Grendel, Grendel's mother, Lloyds Banking Group, Mifid II, Solvency II
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Contractors can’t have their cake and eat our pensions too
The Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed have condemned Lloyds Banking Group’s decision to either scrap contractors or force them into umbrella companies. I think this unfair on Lloyds and unfair on the tax-payer. As anyone in reward … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, auto-enrolment, pensions, Value for Money
Tagged auto enrolment, DWP, HMRC, HMT, IPSE, IR35, LBG, Lloyds Banking Group, pensions
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Zurich and Widows, a sensible marriage?
I had better be careful here, my partner Stella is Group Pensions Director at Lloyds Banking Group and I am a Zurich pensioner and ex- head of sales of the Zurich workplace proposition. I have -as they say – … Continue reading
Posted in pensions
Tagged Corporate pensions, Eagle Star, Lloyds Banking Group, Zurich
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Scottish Widows IGC – papering over the cracks
Scottish Widows IGC Chairman’s report is out and if you are a member of a Scottish Widows workplace pension you shouldn’t feel comforted by the words of its Chair Babloo Ramamurthy Although the IGC has carefully scrutinised the various elements of … Continue reading
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Tagged auto enrolment, DWP, Financial services, Government, IGC, Lloyds Banking Group, pensions, Retirement, Scottish Widows, workplace pension
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A message to 1.2m employers who aren’t reading (yet)!
We are in danger of letting the cost of auto-enrolment exceed its value Continue reading
Posted in auto-enrolment, customer service, pensions
Tagged Aegon, DWP, Leslie Williams, Lloyds Banking Group, Martin Lewis, pension, Standard Life, Steve Webb
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