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- Great question from floor. Why don't orgs paying proper contributions- promote them as extra-pay #PPIFuturebook2thanks 2 hours ago
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- RT @IanMuseTweets: "I haven't seen you blogs!!!" 😳 @henryhtapperthanks 2 hours ago
- Chris Wagstaff of @CTinvest_EMEA points out that sticks don't work when it comes to retirement saving -(presumably Australia doesn't count!)thanks 3 hours ago
- Are people engaging in riskier behaviour when accessing their DC savings? asks @PPI_Research Same products <advice = more risk #IMHOthanks 3 hours ago
- Between 2014 and 2015 the use of independent advice for drawdown fell from 81% to 69%.Do people know what they're doing? asks @ppi_researchthanks 3 hours ago
- Trust based occupational scheme contribution rates plummet post 2013 as impact of #AE dilutes high quality scheme rates #Futurebook2thanks 3 hours ago
- DC saving levels down as more people join workplace pensions through @AE - will contributions and pot sizes increase? #PPIfuturebook2thanks 3 hours ago
- Opt in rates for SME employees are higher than other sectors - suggesting such employees are more engaged #PPIfuturebook2thanks 3 hours ago
- The opt out rate of <20 employee employers is 17% compared with 9% for larger clients; Is this because SMEs connect better? #PPIfuturebook2thanks 3 hours ago
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Tag Archives: Payroll
Would you work with a robot?
Technology’s all very well till it bites you in the bum. Imagine Beth, Sally, Fiz and Sean facing up to a robo-panty stitcher in Underworld. If you don’t watch Coronation Street – Underworld’s Weatherfield’s top employer – thoughtNetflix appears to … Continue reading
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Tagged Cornonation Street, financial education, first actuarial, Payroll, pension, pensions, Underworld
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Payroll leads- Pensions follow.
I have been writing for a few years about the value shift from actuarial to operational, in pension consultancy. I also predicted that it would be payroll that would do the heavy lifting on auto-enrolment. I was right on both … Continue reading
Posted in pensions
Tagged CIPP, cIPP First Actuarial, Leadership, Payroll, pension playpen, pensions, Sage
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Data should drive AE reform in 2017
We live at a time dominated by data. Never before has data been so readily available to policy makers. But with so much about, it’s the job of those at DWP and tPR to sort out what’s relevant and what’s … Continue reading
Posted in auto-enrolment, pensions
Tagged 2017, AE reform, auto enrolment, choice, Engagement, informed choice, Payroll, Payroll World, pension playpen
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Shaking up at the DWP- how will politics effect pensions and payroll?
As we all know by now, the DWP are very proud of auto-enrolment which former Pension Minister described as “that hen’s tooth – a public policy success”. At the time of writing, I should be in a meeting chaired by … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, DWP, Payroll, Pension new, pensions, Politics, Retirement, tata
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Why I’m learning from Stephen Kelly
Business mentors are important. For some years I’ve looked at Martin Lewis as an example. I have exploited a gap in conviction based thought leadership in pensions to build this blog and help develop Pension PlayPen as a brand that … Continue reading
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Tagged accountants, autoenrolment, Brexit, mentor, Payroll, payroll software, pensions, Retirement, Sage, Stephen Kelly
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A tale of two cultures (and why I’m backing payroll)
Two days, two conferences and two vastly different experiences. On Wednesday I spent a day exploring the Future of Life and Pensions with what Market Force and people I am told are financial services “C1s”. Apparently this means they’ve reached … Continue reading
Posted in governance, Pension Freedoms, pensions
Tagged Marketforce, Payroll, pension, Retirement
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Kiss me Kate-Upcraft!
This is my friend and most admired business colleague Kate Upcraft, upright, outspoken upholder of the truth in all things payroll. I thought of her last night – as I watched the Globe’s production of the Taming of the Shrew. … Continue reading
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Tagged Caroline Byrne, Ireland, Kate Upcraft, Kathleen ni Houlihann, Payroll, pension, Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew
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Who’s afraid of auto-enrolment?
Despite the dire warnings – not that many UK employers New research from workplace pensions provider NOW: Pensions reveals that UK small firms are relatively relaxed about auto enrolment and the introduction of the National Living Wage with concerns focussed … Continue reading
Posted in auto-enrolment, NEST, pensions, Pensions Regulator
Tagged auto enrolment, Business, Employment, Financial services, fines, NEST, Payroll, penalty notice, pension playpen, Retirement, Workie
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AE – State of the Nation – thoughts from Accountex
Two days conducting over 300 conversations with accountants , payroll experts and a pension providers has put me in reflexive (and recumbent!) mood!. I may only have spoken to 1 in 10 of the people who passed the Pension … Continue reading
Budget blues for Osborne – but not for payroll
This was a blue budget for George Osborne, one that promised much, and delivered little rather less than planned. Things started going wrong three weeks before Budget Day when the Treasury announced that it would not be pressing ahead with … Continue reading
