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Where next for pensions transparency?
As illegal drugs to your health so hidden charges to your finances Imagine that you were tasked to prevent drugs coming into this country. Would you ask the driver if he had drugs in his vehicle and wave him through … Continue reading
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Tagged auto enrolment, charges, costs, dc pensions, DWP, Government, hidden costs and charges, IA, Pension new, smuggling
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Double Bill; dashboard+transparency
You wait a summer for the pension policy bus and then two come together! This morning’s the Treasury big reveal when they’ll be rolling out plans for the pension dashboard at Aviva’s Digital Garage in “trending Hoxton”. This afternoon’s the world’s … Continue reading
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Tagged agenda, Andy Agethangelou, Dashboard, digital, Events, Financial services, pension, Pension new, pension playpen, pensions, Retirement, Tom, trasparency, TTF
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Plebicide and Suicide – Con Keating on post-Brexit pensions
In the post-Brexit period, I have listened to no fewer than three investment consultants advocating the immediate hedging of interest rate risk in our pension scheme “as the deficit is likely to blossom in the event of further quantitative easing”, … Continue reading
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Tagged Brexit, Business, Con Keating, Employment, Financial services, pension, Pension new, pensions, Retirement
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So who gave Mark Carney the keys?
Ros Altmann, along with many others is concerned that a side-effect of the measures announced to bounce our economy out of Brexit blues, will be to require employers to pump money into pensions and not into jobs, research and building new … Continue reading
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“The best way forward or the NEST way forward?”
If you are an employer and you have made a decision, there is no liability—that is clear in the legislation. If you have decided to go with NEST rather than NOW: or People’s, there is no liability that can fall … Continue reading
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Posted in accountants, auto-enrolment, NEST, now, pensions, Personal Accounts
Tagged Aviva, dc pensions, DWP, Government, Legal and General, NEST, NOW, pension, Pension new, pension playpen, pensions, People's Pension, Richard Harrington, Standard Life, workplace Pensions
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The new politics of pensions
What has leaving the European Union some time in 2019 have to do with four new Ministers at the DWP and as many at the Treasury? We currently have no shadow pension minister, Angela Rayner who became shadow … Continue reading
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Wake up to the PPF!
It was good to oversleep and wake up not to the lark (metaphorical here in EC4), but to Alan Rubenstein purring about his Pension Protection Fund. Pension Protection Fund figures published yesterday show the lifeboat scheme has £4.1bn surplus and … Continue reading
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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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Playing the personality card
Of all the financial myths that remain unchallenged, the myth of personality is least challenged and most lethal. For it allows the congregation of expert panels/committees/boards – stuffed with perceived “personality” to validate all manner of iniquities. For those personalities … Continue reading
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GO ROBO!
The robots are here! But not in the Terminator sense. Think, rather, of Asimov’s creations. Or, for the less nerdy, Rosie from The Jetsons: benevolent machines, doing our hard work but better, faster and more reliably. Across almost all sectors, … Continue reading
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Posted in pensions, Retail Distribution Review, risk
Tagged National Employment Savings Trust, pension, Pension new, pension playpen, pensons, robo, robo-advice
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