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Time to ditch the “institutional” from pensions
There has always been a gulf between retail and institutional pensions. But I have never felt it so inappropriate . Retail pensions were sold on commission, organised by insurance company and regulated by the Treasury via the FCA and its … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, annuity, Payroll, pension playpen, pensions
Tagged Business, corporate risk, dc pensions, Defined benefit pension plan, DWP, Employment, Financial services, Government, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, Pension new, pension playpen, Pension Regulator, pensions, Retirement, Steve Webb
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No small company should spend 103 man days on pensions!
Paul Foot of Sage is right to point to research carried out by the London Business School that concluded that 103 man days were being devoted to auto-enrolment by companies staging in 2013. I don’t know how you account for … Continue reading
Mind the gap – who’ll be supplying to auto-enrolment in years to come?
Introduction This article is a summary of a presentation given to the Friends of Automatic Enrolment on 19th June. The FAoE had been privileged to have Steve Webb present and engage fully with the audience. Unfortunately he just missed this … Continue reading
A buyers guide to auto-enrolment software
Some initial thoughts Auto-enrolment software exists to automate the processes your company needs to establish to stage and maintain auto-enrolment. For most employers it is another payroll headache (along with RTI) that needs a purchased solution. Normally companies purchase on … Continue reading
Posted in accountants, advice gap, annuity, auto-enrolment, middleware, NEST, now, Payroll, pension playpen, pensions, Retirement
Tagged auto enrolment, auto-enrolement, Business, Employment, MIddleware, NEST, NOW, Payroll, pension, Pension new, Pension Regulator, pensions
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Make AE tardy bosses a “cause of innocent merriment”.
My object all sublime The stated purpose of auto-enrolment is to include 11m people currently excluded from pensions savings in good quality workplace pension schemes so they can receive more from the pensions system than their state pension entitlement. I … Continue reading
Ten mistakes CDC cannot repeat.
CDC (Target Pensions Plans) look likely to happen If, as now seems likely, we get the easements in a Pensions Bill to run collective DC schemes then the pressure will turn on those (like me) who have lobbied for change– … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, auto-enrolment, David Pitt-Watson, dc pensions, pension playpen, pensions
Tagged Actuarial science, corporate governance, corporate risk, dc pensions, Financial services, Government, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, Pension Regulator, pensions, Politics, Steve Webb
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What will these pension freedoms cost the Treasury?
There appear to be two versions of the Treasury’s costings of these new found freedoms we’ll be getting post April 2015. The first were published at the time of the budget and (with the proviso that the Treasury don’t know … Continue reading
Friends of CDC calls for action! – our letter in the Times
This letter appears in this morning’s edition of the Times Dear Sir, We all deserve access to pension products that provide us with better and more certain outcomes. Other European countries encourage private pension systems which are far more efficient … Continue reading
A great way to deliver the Guidance Guarantee (for the right employer)
Josh Collins In recent weeks, I’ve been taking the temperature of the pension trustees of large employers and found that enthusiasm for providing guidance to employees at retirement is limited. This is understandable. Do trustees want to become surrogate … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, Blogging, dc pensions, pensions, Personality, workplace pensions
Tagged annuity, Business, Business and Economy, corporate governance, DWP, GMB, Guidance, Guidance Framework, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, Pension new, pension playpen, Pension Regulator, pensions, Politics, Retirement, unions
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Towards common data standards for auto-enrolment
The Chartered Institute for Payroll and Pension Professionals and their “Friends of AE” stitched me up with writing up the output of a working group comprising a lot of old’uns and a couple of delightful “young’uns”. Here, for the general enlightenment of others and the … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, corporate governance, dc pensions, Payroll, pension playpen, pensions
Tagged Business, CIPP, corporate governance, Data, DWP, Financial services, NEST, Payroll, pension, pension playpen, Pension Regulator, pensions, QWPS, standards
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