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Tag Archives: Origo
Via Nova challenges Origo’s PE backed monopoly.
Origo – a monopoly in the making I have for five years been writing about the pernicious impact of a potential monopoly created by Origo in the transaction of pension transfers. I still worry. Origo was set up in 1989 … Continue reading
Posted in pensions
Tagged Fidelity, Hargreaves Lansdown, Lifesight, Origo, pension transfers, ViaNova, Willis Towers Watson, WTW
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Pension transfer times are getting longer , how can this (pension) be?
I am a fan of Pension Bee. I visited their new offices in Southwark yesterday, I was shown into the post room, apparently they get a special delivery every day, so much mail needs to be scanned from the pension … Continue reading
Posted in pensions
Tagged ABI, Guy Opperman, Origo, Pension Bee, Pensions, PLSA, Transfer
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From PS20-06 to the dashboard; – can the FCA pull it off?
Amidst the noise of the ban on contingent charging, the FCA published a long and detailed Policy Statement PS20-06 For the most part, the FCA is concerned with people safeguarding their rights to promised benefits wherever they may come … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, age wage, Dashboard, pensions
Tagged AgeWage, Dashboard, FCA, MAPS, Origo, Pension Bee, PS20-06, regulation
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Dashboard? – we’re dash-less and bored!
The title was my summation of a discussion of dashboard progress over the past four years. We’d been talking about what the general public want and had landed on precisely the model illustrated at the top of the blog. … Continue reading
Posted in age wage, Bankers, customer service, Dashboard, dc pensions, pensions
Tagged CMA, IDG, MAPS, Open Banking, Origo, pensions
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Why the door’s slammed shut on open pensions.
During the week, AgeWage was invited to compete in the Nesta Open Up Challenge. Nesta is funded by the UK lottery – they are an agency of change sponsored by the likes of you and me; As any entrepreneurial start-up … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, age wage, Pension Freedoms, pensions, Start ups, Technology
Tagged BEIS, DWP, HMT, Innovation, Nesta, Origo, Pension Dashboard, pensions, Technology
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The Pensions Dashboard – remember that?
It’s only been a few weeks since the Government announced its plans for a pensions dashboard but it might have been an age. In the fast moving world of Brexit, all is ephemeral and unless you’ve got a way … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, pensions
Tagged AgeWage, Andy Davies, DWP, Origo, Pensions Dashboard, Prospect
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Finding our pensions
In a vigorous debate at DWP HQ, two quite different approaches to finding pensions emerged. This blog helps people to understand what the debate is about and why it matters to everyone. It matters because there is some £20bn. … Continue reading
Posted in Dashboard, pensions
Tagged API, Dashboard, DWP, open pensions, Origo, Pension Bee, pensions
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A pension dashboard for all?
I agree with Anthony Rafferty , CEO of Origo, that the dashboard isn’t just for those drawing to the close of their working (and saving) career. Rafferty writes in Professional Pensions Rafferty points out that to argue against dashboard, based … Continue reading
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Tagged ABI, Dashboard, DWP, HMT, Origo, pensions, Professioinal Pensions, Rafferty
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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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Pot follows member (unless we want to keep it where it is).
In a statement this week on the sluggish service standards of firms administrating our Defined Contribution occupational pension schemes, the PLSA concluded The median transfer time is 11 days, and although some are much longer1, this is principally due … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, pensions
Tagged Aegon, Origo, Pension Bee, PLSA, Pot follows member
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