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Dashboards will test quality of service – and value for members.
Thanks Paul McGlone for reminding the good people of Linked-in that “dashboard denial” is futile. He ends a pithy argument with an admission that while dashboards are coming , we don’t know quite when. Of course, none of that is … Continue reading
How do master trusts add value for members at retirement?
I shouldn’t be surprised to report on a consultancy looking at how member outcomes could be improved by picking the right workplace pension. But I am. This morning at 11 am, Hymans Robertson are kicking off another round of webinars … Continue reading
300 new tickets issued for Friday’s VFM conference – register here.
We have been able to increase our Zoom capacity from 200 to 500, to allow a much wider audience. Following the publication of their findings on what members of workplace pensions want to know, Ruston Smith and Janette Weir will … Continue reading
Consumers mustn’t pay to clean up the FCA’s mess.
This is a post from Gina Miller on Linked in. It poses a question about accountability The Gloster Report into #LCF is a damning indictment of failures at the FCA – Whilst my blood boils on behalf of millions of victims … Continue reading
What’s the point of disclosure if it never gets seen?
Jo Cumbo has been writing some interesting pieces ( https://www.ft.com/content/787ad06e-7e7b-11e6-bc52-0c7211ef3198) on how what we need to know about our retirement savings can be delivered to us as we want it. We get our shopping or our meals to our door if … Continue reading
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Tagged Aviva, Business, communication, Digital Garage, disclosure, Employment, Financial services, ft, jo cumbo, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, Scottish Widows
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My pension fund manager – reassuringly boring.
I’ve worked out what I want from the person who runs my pension fund – I want them to be busy doing nothing. That’s more or less what Martin Dietz is doing running the Legal and General Multi-Asset Fund which … Continue reading
So who gave Mark Carney the keys?
Ros Altmann, along with many others is concerned that a side-effect of the measures announced to bounce our economy out of Brexit blues, will be to require employers to pump money into pensions and not into jobs, research and building new … Continue reading
“Only rich people think small amounts don’t matter”
That’s a quote from Debora Price and I’m making it a strap for whatever campaign I can cobble together to make Government Incentives happen for those who qualify for them , but can’t get them because their trustees don’t collect … Continue reading
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Tagged Consultant, Debora Price, DWP, Employment, Financial services, JLT, Mastertrust, National Employment Savings Trust, NEST, net-pay, NOW, pension playpen, pensions, People's Pension, poor, relief at source, Retirement, rich
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The new politics of pensions
What has leaving the European Union some time in 2019 have to do with four new Ministers at the DWP and as many at the Treasury? We currently have no shadow pension minister, Angela Rayner who became shadow … Continue reading
Wake up to the PPF!
It was good to oversleep and wake up not to the lark (metaphorical here in EC4), but to Alan Rubenstein purring about his Pension Protection Fund. Pension Protection Fund figures published yesterday show the lifeboat scheme has £4.1bn surplus and … Continue reading
