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Tag Archives: NOW Pensions
Trial by twitter’s fine by me!
An IFA withdraws its transfer service complaining it’s the victim of “trial by twitter”. Accountability is something that falls hard on adviser’s shoulders. Because we are in the business of longer term investment, the outcomes of our advice will typically … Continue reading
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Tagged Aegon, FCA, NOW Pensions, pensions, Port Talbot, social media, twitter, YouTube
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How green is my pension?
Aberdeen Standard and FT sold out their conference on the DC investment default this week and kicked off the morning with a discussion on ESG and the greening of our pension pots. As I listened, NOW Pensions sent me a press … Continue reading
Is NOW the time to transfer out?
I was talking last night to a senior financial journalist about NOW pensions. In the catalogue of actions that the Pensions Regulator can call upon, insisting on the inclusion of Dalriada Trustees, is perhaps the most alarming. Dalriada is a … Continue reading
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Tagged Dalriada, NOW Pensions, pensions, Pensions Regulator, TPR, Transfer, trustees
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Finger in the dyke stuff! DC pricing is just too leaky Jon!
Jonathan Stapleton has written a deliberatively provocative piece in Professional Pensions which will be applauded by the operators of workplace pensions but is going to get short shrift from me. You can read Jonathan’s opinions here. The gist of Jonathan’s … Continue reading
Posted in auto-enrolment, dc pensions, de-risking, Debt, NEST, now, pensions
Tagged dyke, jonathan Stapleton, NEST, NOW Pensions, operators, pensions
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Put the customer first – help the pot follow member
I have recently been passed the slides of the PLSA?ABI+++ workshop on creating a common way for pension pots to follow members. You can find them here. What a mess we are making of something so very simple! Here is … Continue reading
Posted in accountants, actuaries, auto-enrolment, pensions
Tagged NEST, NOW Pensions, Origo, pensions, Pensions Bee, Pot follows member
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The Pension Regulator should not market workplace pensions.
In his statement to announce his scheme’s withdrawal from tPR’s list of workplace pension providers Morton Nilsson claims NOW: Pensions has always been a huge supporter of the master trust assurance framework and was one of the first providers … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, pensions
Tagged MAF, master trust assurance framework, NOW, NOW Pensions, pensions, TPR, workplace Pensions
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“NOW and then” ; why one big master trust is “off the list”!
News that one of the “big three master trusts ” was closing a significant door to new business, came as a surprise to auto-enrolment practitioners. NOW claimed to have voluntarily withdrawn itself from the Pension Regulator’s master trust assurance list, meaning … Continue reading
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Tagged MAF, Master trust assurance, Morten Nilsson, NOW Pensions, The Pensions Regulator, TPR
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What the Pension Bill means
The 2016 Pensions Bill was published this week and it will have serious implications for single employer occupational schemes, small-mostly insured executive arrangements and for the burgeoning market for commercial mastertrusts. The Bill will also ensure that occupational schemes cannot … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Warwick-Thompson, DWP, ft, Joi Cumbo, Lesley ticomb, MAF, NEST, NOW Pensions, Pensions Bill, professional pensions, TPR
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NOW – for something completely different.
Amid all the noise of auto-enrolment , one master trusts has put its head down and got on with mending a damaged reputation by hard work and through decent behaviour. I’m talking about NOW pensions. NOW was set up by … Continue reading
Posted in napf, NEST, now, pensions
Tagged Amy Mankelow, ATP, auto enrolment, Business, Confidence, Denmark, Jocelyn Blackwell, Moreton nillson, net-pay, NOW Pensions, pension playpen, pensions, trustees
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Top 5 AE myths revealed – top blog from NOW pensions
Thanks to NOW Pensions for this healthy myth-buster – we’ll be spreading the word so no-one gets left behind This year up to 500,000 small firms will have to comply with the new auto enrolment legislation introducing workplace pensions for … Continue reading
Posted in accountants, advice gap, auto-enrolment, now, pensions
Tagged auto enrolment, auto entolment, Morton, mythbuster, no-one gets left bhind, NOW Pensions
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