Tag Archives: Pension Dashboard

Pot for life’s about “open pensions” – where’ve I heard that before?

Posted on November 29, 2023 by henry tapper

I enjoyed reading Ian Macintyre’s blog ” Pot for Life – making it work“, you can too – via the link. Ian is someone who thinks a lot about connectivity and understands the connection between pension dashboards and the “stapling” … Continue reading →

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“Not my Government” – discontent over pension policy meltdown

Posted on November 9, 2023 by henry tapper

The consensus from people I have spoken to , following the King’s Speech is that the Government we have today has lost its legitimacy and is increasingly looking like a marketing tool for the Conservative party at the next general … Continue reading →

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Richard Smith reaches Oslo – will he return our dashboard Czar?

Posted on June 21, 2023 by henry tapper

For those who have been enjoying Richard Smith’s  European Odyssey, here is his latest report -from Oslo Here’s what the Norwegian dashboard looks like and here are the people that Richard met. What is coming out of these visits is … Continue reading →

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Richard Smith in dashboard land (pt 1- Denmark)

Posted on June 15, 2023 by henry tapper

Richard Smith has embarked on his tour of Euro-dashboards and first stop is Denmark. Here’s his report and here’s a screenshot of the Danish dashboard in action You’ll notice that the Danes present pensions in a way that makes their … Continue reading →

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Dashboards – where we went wrong

Posted on June 11, 2023 by henry tapper

At some point over the past few years , the dashboard stopped being a place to see pensions and pots in one place and became an open university designed to educate rather than inform. On the day the Pensions Minister … Continue reading →

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Capita in the dark- dashboard in the lay-by. No news ≠ good news

Posted on May 11, 2023 by henry tapper

No news ≠ good news from Capita Capita are reported in the Times to be estimating the cost of the hack of pension data to be £20m to its shareholders. In its third stock-market announcement since it revealed it had … Continue reading →

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LCP finds partners to auto-cleanse pensions data

Posted on March 23, 2023 by henry tapper

LCP has clubbed up with Transunion, the credit checker and Digidentity the digital identity verifier to work out better ways to get scheme data ready for buy-out and/or display on pension dashboards. It is also pretty important in paying them! … Continue reading →

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The pension dashboard needs more than a reset – it needs a rethink.

Posted on March 3, 2023 by henry tapper

The dashboard is being delayed again. Team PDP is already four years late getting the pension dashboard  crossing the line but our grand-prix racecar is in the best of hands –  even with that retro-refuelling pipe! It was originally intended … Continue reading →

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How can we “engage” with pensions we know nothing about?

Posted on February 24, 2023 by henry tapper

News on the delivery of the pensions dashboard is not good. The vibes I am getting from the PLSA and others is that the period of testing to ensure that data is delivered accurately (dashboard beta) is likely to be … Continue reading →

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What are the barriers to providing a pension dashboard service?

Posted on December 13, 2022 by henry tapper

    The organisation behind a pension dashboard (officially a Pension Dashboard Service firm or PDS) is usually considered to be a bank or insurer. The dashboard itself is conceived as a loss-leader designed to get trust – its a … Continue reading →

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