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Accountex 2016 – are you there?
This is my fourth year going to Accountex. It’s a trade show, not a conference, most people who go are running their own businesses and are looking for ways to run those businesses better. This is in marked contrast to … Continue reading
Posted in accountants, pensions
Tagged #Acountex, Accountex, Accountex16, auto enrolment, Aviva, mydecks, mypaye, pension playpen, pensions
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Accountex 2016 -Pension PlayPen
We will be at Accountex 2016, sharing a stand with our friends from MyPaye and Eledecks. No coffee, no prizes and no gimmicks, come and visit for us about how you can take the pension risk out of auto-enrolments … Continue reading
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Tagged #Acccountex, Accountex, Accountex 16, accountex 2016, Accountex16, pension playpen, pensions
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Value for money from investment consultants
In this article I’m proposing that investment consultants are subject to the same degree of scrutiny as the other service suppliers to trustees. Investment consultants should be subject to a Value for Money assessment). This morning I will be hearing … Continue reading
What price advice?
The principal purpose of the Financial Advice Market Review carried out by the FCA and sponsored by Harriet Baldwin (Chief Economic Secretary to the Treasury) is to broaden the availability of advice to ordinary people. Critical to the purchasing of … Continue reading
Posted in Payroll, pensions
Tagged advice, FAMR, financial advice, pension playpen, pensions
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How can IGCs engage people with their pensions?
There are three measures by which I am judging the IGC Chair reports Do they speak with a proper tone of voice Do they show themselves effective in dealing with the provider they are governing Have they properly addressed whether … Continue reading
Posted in IGC, pensions
Tagged ABI, Business, Business and Economy, corporate governance, corporate risk, DWP, FCA, governance, IA, IGC, Insurers, National Employment Savings Trust, NEST, pension, Pension new, pension playpen, pensions, Ros Altmann, TPR, workplace Pensions
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Money corrupts, is State Street corrupted absolutely?
Is there no end to the greed within State Street’s global custody division? Two former executives at State Street have been charged by US officials for their part in a scheme involving secret commissions within its transition management business. Ross … Continue reading
Posted in pensions
Tagged Business and Economy, corporate governance, corporate risk, Global custody, NEST, pension, pension playpen, pensions, People's Pension, State Street
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The New State Pension; winners and losers!
Today I am going to be on TV, which is making me nervous-I’m surprised how nervous – I expect it’s the fear of the unknown and it’s about having to make stupid choices (tie/no tie; white or patterned shirt etc). … Continue reading
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Tagged BBC, BBC news, Business, New State Pension, pension playpen, pensions, Retirement, S2P, SERPS
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“We’ve never had it that good”- what Tata Steel could do to pensions.
The world has woken up to the £486m deficit in the Tata (aka Corus, aka British Steel) Pension deficit and what John Ralfe estimates is a £2bn albatross around Tata’s neck (the predicted cost of walking away with the Government’s … Continue reading
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Tagged DB, Deficit, defined benefit, Inequality, Intergenerational transfers, pension playpen, pensions, ppf, Tata steel
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Unbiased?
We all know that when we go on Google or Twitter, certain search results or tweets are promoted. We know that they are at the top of the list because they are market as promoted. The products that lie behind … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, pensions
Tagged advice, IFA, pension, pension playpen, unbiased, workplace pension, www.pensionplaypen.com
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NEST takes the strain.
NEST have something to shout about and it’s not news. Like good background music, they’ve succeeded in being there but not getting noticed. They’ve gone about their business over the last three months increasing their participating employers from 40 to … Continue reading
Posted in NEST, pensions, Retirement, Ros Altmann
Tagged Business, DWP, Financial services, Helen Dean, IRIS, Moneysoft, NEST, pension, pension playpen, pensions, Qtac, Retirement, Sage
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