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Time for master trusts to take a fresh look at retirement income?
I’m really pleased this blog is getting a lot of reads; I hope some of them are from people who fund , manage and govern our master trusts – our next great pension story! We now have primary legislation in … Continue reading
Trouble at till …Tesco’s pricing problems are a lesson to us all!
Something’s wrong at Tesco when the offers you see on the shelves don’t show up on your bill. The BBC went shopping and in 33 of 50 stores visited, multi-buy promotions were marked on the shelf, but the time-limited discounts were not … Continue reading
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Tagged Asset market study, FCA, master trusts, pensions, Tescos, Trouble at till, workplace Pensions
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If I ran a master trust…
Not all of us run a master trust, though you might think it was Britain’s boom industry from the amount of press “master trust proliferation” has got. This blog is here for those who do, and for those who advise … Continue reading
Sorting the sheep from the goats
On Wednesday March 9th, the Work and Pensions Committee met to discuss auto-enrolment. This blog looks at this conversation in some detail. It concludes that there is an urgent need for Government to clarify what liability there is on an employer … Continue reading
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Tagged auto enrolment, financial advice, Government, IGC, journey, master trusts, pensions, Providers, Ros Altmann
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From source to sea – the consolidation of master trusts
As part of some work for one of our intermediaries, I’ve been asked to make sense of the smaller master trusts and give a view on which of them are likely to be around in their current form in … Continue reading
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Tagged Bluesky, Carey, Corpad, ICAEW, MAF, master trust assurance frmework, master trusts, PQM, Smart pesnions, TPR
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Why I’m backing the master trust assurance framework
Back in May 2014, the Pension Regulator launched on an unsuspecting world the ICAEW’s Technical Release “Assurance reporting on master trusts”. At the time I was dismissive of this document and the Master Trust Assurance Framework (MAF). Write in haste , … Continue reading
Posted in auto-enrolment, pensions, Pensions Regulator, Retirement
Tagged advice, annuity, auto enrolment, Business, DWP, Employment, FofAE, governance, ICAEW, master trust, master trusts, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, Pension new, pension playpen, Pension Regulator, pensions, Public Sector Pensions, Retirement, TPR, workplace Pensions
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Don’t say I didn’t tell you…
This blog predicted last year and this , that within the first three months of the “pension freedom grant”, there would be a Daily Mail front page telling us that we may be (pension) free – but everywhere we are … Continue reading
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Tagged annuities, CDC, Dail Mail, Freedom and Choice, Insurers, luddite, ludditism, master trusts, Pension Freedoms, pensions, Ros Altmann
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“Beware the mastertrust my son!” 6 reasons to be careful
Ok. It may not have jaws that bite or claws that clutch or be quite as frightful as the Jubjub bird, but the mastertrust may be no friendlier than Lewis Carroll’s Jabberwock. This is not a trendy thing to … Continue reading
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Tagged DC pension, DWP, jabberwock, Jabberwocky, master trust, master trusts, Mastertrust, NEST, Professional Pesnions, TPR, Value for Money, workplace pensin
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