The self-employed commonly have very lumpy income streams plus periods of feast and famine. Their lack of income security means…
This particular question wasn’t asked or answered but Oliver was very clear that the launch is only the start. The…
Priest Alaska brought back the woman I love after another man nearly destroyed our marriage. My wife’s personality had changed…
Priest Alaska brought back the woman I love after another man nearly destroyed our marriage. My wife’s personality had changed…
Tag Archives: NEST
What our biggest pension funds are doing with infrastructure – train reading!
I can think of worse ways to kick off the Conference than to read this report as you go up on the train to Liverpool. Continue reading
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Tagged border to coast, Business, IFM, Infrastructure, National Employment Savings Trust, NEST, pension, Pension new
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My Nest dashboard quotes me twice the “pot” my Pensions Dashboard shows
We spend ages TALKING about adequacy, but poor systems make me wonder if we actually care? Talk is cheap, right? Continue reading
Make pensions easier for the self-employed with accessible, but not mandatory, saving (thanks SPP and Prospect))
Simple and an excellent pension, Nest’s self-employed “sign up” option is under-promoted and under used. It needs to be improved for self-employed saving but this could be done. Continue reading
“My pension offer” – explaining CDC to a confused sceptic 12 years ago!
This is a blog I published 12 years ago on 28th September 2014. It is now 12 years old and shows that the debate has been broadly the same for some time! Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, auto-enrolment, CDC, pensions, with-profits, workplace pensions
Tagged annuities, Business, Business and Economy, CDC, collective, DC Defined Contributions, Defined benefit pension plan, Drawdown, DWP, Employment, Financial services, flexible drawdown, Flumps, Government, Human Resources, Insurance, NEST, pension, Pension Regulator, Pensions, Retirement
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Telling us accurately what we’ve built up as pension should be what the dashboard does
Richard Smith is right in wishing to get engagement of people close to retirement. We want to know what is happening to our money which doesn’t grow like it does in the building society or bank but fluctuates as markets … Continue reading
Richard Smith is Janus ; he looks forward and backwards.
Richard is nostalgic and far-seeing! Richard is Janus, the god of beginnings, gates, transitions, time, duality, doorways, passages, frames, and endings. He is usually depicted as having a double-sided head. Janus presides over the beginning and ending of conflict, and … Continue reading
Richard Smith is Janus ; he looks forward and backwards.
Richard is nostalgic and far-seeing! Richard is Janus, the god of beginnings, gates, transitions, time, duality, doorways, passages, frames, and endings. He is usually depicted as having a double-sided head. Janus presides over the beginning and ending of conflict, and … Continue reading
Nest is a collective DC fund in all but name. It will remain the default for most employers.
Nest now has £13bn invested in the UK economy, according its latest annual report which was laid before Parliament today. This is an investment more akin to an open DB Scheme (LGPS or USS) or a CDC scheme aimed to … Continue reading
High finance or hi-jack; how do you feel about Nest’s £1bn venture?
I was at a WTW award giveaway for journalists. Padraig Floyd stood at the back (the freelance journalists) and I listened to Padraig complaining about the hi-jacking of pensions by mandating from the Government (aka Treasury). This is not my … Continue reading
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Tagged alternatives, Mark Fawcett, NEST, Nest Invest, Pensions, Venture Capital
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Things can only get better: for pensions – and for Britain too!
Over the weekend, I have had a number of conversations with friends who find the proposition from Andy Haldane that this Government incentivises “effective investment” into the UK with home-bias taxation. I know that we have not heard the … Continue reading
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Tagged 1993, CDC, D;REAM, dc pensions, Financial services, NEST, pension, Pension new, pension playpen, Pensions, Retirement
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As cryptocurrency adoption continues to grow, scams, hacking incidents, fraudulent investments, and lost wallet credentials remain major challenges. TECHY FORCE…