Tag Archives: Pension Dashboard

Dashboards – where we went wrong

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

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

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.

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?

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?

    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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Pension Dashboards and the new Consumer Duty

It’s already a commonplace  that the Consumer Duty shifts the obligation on those providing financial services  from “treating a customer fairly to treating that customer well“. The Pension Dashboards set out to provide a good customer experience, they will be … Continue reading

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Combining pensions – what are Dan and Steve really up to?

  Dan Mikulskis and Steve Webb have teamed up to write a paper aimed at people considering combining their pension pots. They are writing for the kind of sophisticated consumer who knows their way around pensions and is thinking of … Continue reading

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Searching for pensions? Beware of false flags

Anything by Paul Mcglone is a top read on pensions. Paul has an understanding for big data, the power of using it right and the dangers of getting it wrong. Here is an outstanding article that explains why Chris Curry … Continue reading

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Ian McKenna’s dashboard rant gets a huge “like”

I didn’t realise I had as much in common with Ian McKenna  – nearly 5,000 linked in connections it seems! Those bonds were cemented yesterday when Ian posted this great comment on my blog on pension dashboards. Ian McKenna Winner … Continue reading

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