Tag Archives: MAPS

Why delays in dashboard delivery hit the worst-off hardest

Posted on January 30, 2020 by

  This blog looks at how the information from the pensions dashboard could help those on low incomes with low savings and it focusses not on how they save, but how they spend their savings. I had hoped , following … Continue reading →

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What is MAPS actually going to do over the next 10 years?

Posted on January 22, 2020 by

I haven’t got a lot to say about MAPS’ UK Strategy for Financial Wellbeing – published yesterday.  Having read it , I’m not sure how it is going to help me as a person, business owner as part of British … Continue reading →

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Regulation 2.0 (and how to pay for it).

Posted on December 4, 2019 by

  I am on something called the Pension Regulator’s Stakeholder group which means I’m supposed to champion tPR .I get meetings with MAPS (which always get cancelled at short notice) because I represent something out there called “innovation”. But in … Continue reading →

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“I want help with my pensions – who should I talk with?”

Posted on December 1, 2019 by

My answer to this question on the first day of Advent 2019 is very different from the answer I’d given a year ago. Back then I was confident that TPAS, which was about to become the Single Financial Guidance Body … Continue reading →

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MAPS frustrate

Posted on November 14, 2019 by

  It’s been a frustrating year for the Money and Pensions Service – MAPS and for businesses that hoped to work with it. When John Govett was revealed as its new CEO this time last year, I wrote confidently of … Continue reading →

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Dashboard? – we’re dash-less and bored!

Posted on August 30, 2019 by

  The title was my summation of a discussion of dashboard progress over the past four years. We’d been talking about what the general public want and had landed on precisely the model illustrated at the top of the blog. … Continue reading →

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What is going on at MAPS?

Posted on June 12, 2019 by

I want MAPS to succeed. It needs an experienced person as its CEO who understands pensions. Here’s MAPS’ news as  Pension Age presents it. The Money and Pensions Service (Maps) chief executive officer, John Govett, has resigned eight months into … Continue reading →

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