Tag Archives: NEST
PensionsOldie and the risks of closed personal pensions.
There are a string of comments on my recent blogs suggesting that 7% would be a sensible conversion rate for DC pots defaulting to retirement income. But Pensions Oldie sees potential problems of making promises without protecting you from people … Continue reading
Have NEST swapped pension energy for deferred annuities?
There was a moment in Paul Todd’s excellent talk when I asked myself who owns the rate at which my pot is returned to me. The answer is not clear even to Nest, it depends on what the provider … Continue reading
Nest can produce good things from a pot
I have to say it has been quite a day with a fine breakfast with my friend John Tsalos , discussing ways to spend our DC pots, spending a lunchtime in the company of 65,000 elated football ladies and an … Continue reading
Paul Todd of NEST- 10.30 am – this morning – joining link here.
You are cordially invited to join our next Coffee Morning THIS MORNING at which Paul Todd, COO of NEST will be talking and answering our questions. If you want to understand where Nest is coming from, press the button on … Continue reading
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Paul Todd explains Nest’s approach to paying pensions
You are cordially invited to join our next Coffee Morning at which Paul Todd, COO of NEST will be talking and answering our questions. If you want to understand where Nest is coming from, press the button on the you … Continue reading
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A blog from 2016 – which is as relevant to Nest today as it was 9 years ago
This is a re blog of an account of Nest at one of the first PLSA (rather than NAPF) conferences. If you weren’t in Liverpool for last week’s PLSA conference, do not slit your wrists. You can watch the sessions … Continue reading
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Tagged auto enrolment, Drawdown, ft, josephine cumbo, NEST, Otto Thorsen, PLSA, the Pensins Regulator
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Paul Todd will explain Nest’s new “pension” – after a Pension Schemes Act.
Paul’s talking at a Pension PlayPen coffee morning on Tuesday. Paul is COO of Nest and well known to many of us for a biography of Paul is at the bottom of the blog. It is an important talk and … Continue reading
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Tagged CDC, Conditional Indexation, decumulation, NEST, Paul Todd, pension
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Nest’s covenant – open doors to flexible pensions.
Nausicaa Delfas says in the Pensions Regulator’s 2025/6 Corporate Plan that TPR will be “driving value for money in pensions schemes, and creating default retirement solutions for pensions savers”. What does this mean beyond what we have received since the … Continue reading
Can I opt-out of my pension? Nest says yes (before 85)
Amidst the noise about savings for the pensions and the damp squib of a Mansion House speech by the Chancellor, I have been thinking about what the workplace pension is about. For many people, the money they have in workplace … Continue reading
NI , Selfies, Sidecars – here are some questions on “adequacy”
I have some friends who have worked in Government, in the Treasury and DWP and who understand state first and second pensions better than me. There are many in the private sector , such as Steve Groves, who are … Continue reading