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Lloyds Bank’s bold step into 21st century pensions
Time for a viewing of the brilliant film “Margin Call”, which starts with the “letting go” of a bank’s risk officer. Lloyds Bank axes risk staff after executives complain they are a ‘blocker’ https://t.co/HKvI7cMbKt via @ft — Bryn Davies (@DaviesofBrixton) … Continue reading
App-less is hopeless! Put pensions at our fingertips!
One app for the rich – nowt for the poor! We all know that LifeSight is a very rich workplace pension. It houses the pension savings workers at Vodafone, Bupa and other spectacularly mindful employers have built up and … Continue reading
Communications that get things done
Carol Young’s concept of “consumer grade” experience has immediately attracted the attention of those entrusted to assess VFM – the comments on this post include one from Fidelity’s IGC and Trustee Chair – Kim Nash. This is the key insight. … Continue reading
Pension Bee wish “superfunds” well – but “potty pots” aren’t for their savers yet!
Pension Bee put out a statement on proposals to overhaul the UK pension system which make sense of a lot of noise. Here’s what the Queen Bee, Romi Savova is saying, “For Defined Benefit pensions, the proposals put forward by … Continue reading
The tougher it gets, the harder we save
It seems that as times get harder , our tenacity to provide ourselves with future security increases. New analysis from leading online pension provider, PensionBee, reveals that pension savers put significantly more money aside for their retirement at the start … Continue reading
Why Pension Bee are right to push for a 10 day switch guarantee
It’s worth looking in more detail at Pension Bee’s work on DC transfer times. Paragraphs in italics are from yesterday’s much reported press release, my comments are not italicized PensionBee analysis of Origo’s Pension Transfer Index has uncovered a 31% … Continue reading
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The state of pension transfers
Every pension provider dreams of a system where pension pots flow to them as in the diagram above. This blog suggests that the flow of money is dependent on service not fees and that the winners are not those … Continue reading
Can your SIPP investment make an impact? Pension Bee says it can.
Like many people , I want my money to make a difference – I want to make it matter. But until recently I had only the vaguest idea of how I could make that happen. I am now able to … Continue reading
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Tagged BlackRock, clare reilly, Eric Rice, ESG, Pension Bee, Romi Savova, sustainability
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Implacably opposed to SIPPs?
My last meeting of the year was with a SIPP provider. We discussed the performance of the funds it offered, the value it had offered for the money it had garnered (mainly by combining pension pots built up in the … Continue reading
Getting your children up the pension ladder
Pension Bee have come up with an imaginative way to boost loved ones’ pension savings by thousands of pounds with monthly tax-free gifts The pension operator modelled several scenarios to highlight the potential of passing on wealth through pension contributions. … Continue reading