Tag Archives: Pension Freedoms

Have pension freedoms “benefited” the poor?

Posted on June 25, 2021 by henry tapper

Gareth Morgan has written to us via linked in to remind us his submission to the Work and Pensions Select Committee is now public . You can read it in full here   bit.ly/3d9PpyW There were 54 written submissions but only … Continue reading →

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Is the pensions consumer “taking a journey” of just along for the ride.

Posted on May 24, 2021 by henry tapper

For the first time in a few years, I took a weekend off blogging and spent Saturday on the river with new friends. Sunday gave me some time to think about the Pension Regulator and the FCA’s joint call for … Continue reading →

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The ten big pension questions

Posted on May 16, 2021 by henry tapper

  These are  ten big questions facing pension professionals and its public today. They are the questions in the Work and Pensions Select Committee’s inquiry into the Pension Freedoms and they are worth your consideration. They concern the decisions we … Continue reading →

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Stop blaming freedom (for pension scamming)!

Posted on October 11, 2020 by henry tapper

There are many things that pension freedoms have brought us and one of them is the pail of hogwash that they’ve opened the door to pension scams. This is the  line peddled by the FCA’s new CEO Nikhil Rathi at … Continue reading →

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Why I don’t support LCP and Royal London’s calls to boost DB transfer advice

Posted on September 10, 2020 by henry tapper

  LCP and Royal London jointly presented to an audience of 300 industry professionals yesterday on the vexed topic of “helping members get transfer advice”. The webinar can be watched here  and as you’d expect from these organisations, this was … Continue reading →

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Don’t cash-out your pension #buildbackbetter !

Posted on June 22, 2020 by henry tapper

This blog is about how we make sure we have enough cash to pay the bills (including the butcher’s bills) Cashing out pensions – the lure In its recent policy statement (P20/6), the FCA leaves two carve-outs (loopholes) for advisers … Continue reading →

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How are your staff’s pensions getting on?

Posted on December 26, 2019 by henry tapper

  If you remember back to the mid part of this fading decade, one of the issues facing the 1.4m employers who had to stage auto-enrolment, was which workplace pension to choose for your staff. If you were part of … Continue reading →

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“Five years of freedom” – is evolution enough?

Posted on November 15, 2019 by henry tapper

The Defined Contribution Investment Forum have commissioned an excellent body of research from Richard Parkin and Ignition House. The result is a packed report running to over 60 pages that provides a new insight on the problems individuals are facing … Continue reading →

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Pension tax transparency a long way off

Posted on October 27, 2019 by henry tapper

    The malaise  with pension taxation goes much deeper than the immediate symptoms, the complexity of the Annual and Lifetime allowances, the obscurity of the money purchase annual allowance and the perversity of the running both net pay and … Continue reading →

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The politics of CDC

Posted on September 23, 2019 by henry tapper

This morning I should be attending the CDC fringe meeting at Brighton’s Grand Hotel which forms part of the Labour Party Conference. If I can’t – I send my apologies to Royal Mail, CWU and the Shadow Pensions Minister – … Continue reading →

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