Tag Archives: Pension Regulator
Get your BR19 as your first step to being “Pension Wise”
Treasury now in charge of “Pension Wisdom”. Another Monday, another set of pension headlines. The Treasury announce that the Guidance Guarantee is no more and hereafter the delivery mechanism for the help we’ll be getting at retirement will be called … Continue reading
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Tagged Actuarial science, annuity, auto enrolment, BR19, Business and Economy, CDC, DWP, Financial services, Freedoms, Guidance, Guidance Guarantee, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, Pension Freedomd, Pension new, pension playpen, Pension Poverty, Pension Regulator, Pension Wise, pensions, Retirement, Steve Webb, Treasury
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Let’s play fantasy CIO at NEST!
NEST has invited all of us to play “fantasy CIO” and create a default investment strategy for its members to and through retirement. If you’re prepared to get to page 118 of the consultation paper, you are asked as question 18 … Continue reading
Separation
Can employers nudge staff into drawdown products? Should there be a degree of separation? If so – how can separation be achieved? Continue reading
Posted in pension playpen, pensions, Pensions Regulator, Retirement, workplace pensions
Tagged annuity, At REtirement, auto enrolment, Business, Defined benefit pension plan, DWP, Employment, Financial services, pension, Pension new, pension playpen, Pension Poverty, Pension Regulator, pensions, Politics, Retirement, social media
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So much for the “haves”, what of the “have nots”?
It has now been well over a year since the OFT published this comment Since this warning, not a lot has been done to improve the quality of purchasing by employers. The DWP is introducing legislation in April which will … Continue reading
Posted in actuaries, auto-enrolment
Tagged annuity, auto enrolment, Business, employers, Human Resources, NEST, pension, Pension new, pension playpen, Pension Regulator, pensions, Politics, Retirement
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“Collaboration” is not a dirty word
In this article, I am setting out First Actuarial’s and Pension PlayPen’s auto-enrolment strategy for 2015 and beyond. It is a strategy that sets out to collaborate with not compete with advisers. Why we chose to work … Continue reading
Posted in accountants, actuaries, advice gap, pension playpen, pensions, Pensions Regulator
Tagged Business, dc pensions, Defined benefit pension plan, Employment, financial advice, Government, IFA, independent financial advice, independent financial advisers, Pension Play Pen, pension playpen, Pension Regulator, pensions, Retirement, Steve Webb, workplace
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Beware the vanity master trust
Hardly a week goes by without a request to research another vertically integrated master trust for inclusion on the list of employer choices offered on http://www.pensionplaypen.com . It is harder to name an actuarial practice or employee benefit consultant that … Continue reading
Hats off to all workplace pension providers
I’ve referred earlier this week to an excellent article by Kim North in Money Marketing in which she points to the ongoing work Scottish Widows have been doing on the participation of women in workplace pensions. In the same … Continue reading
Posted in FCA, NEST, Retirement
Tagged Aegon, Aviva, BlackRock, Business, Business and Economy, CDC, Financial services, Financial Services Authority, Friends Life, Government, L&G, London, NEST, pension, Pension new, pension playpen, Pension Regulator, pensions, Politics, Prudential, Retirement, Royal London, Scottish Life, Standar Life, Steve Webb, workplace Pensions, Zurich
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Clarity needed on NEST’s finances
The Pension Regulator has announced it intends to introduce a Directory of workplace pensions. The criteria for inclusion will be that the workplace pension must meet the Quality Standards being introduced from 2015 and that the workplace will be universally … Continue reading
Posted in DWP, NEST
Tagged Business, dc pensions, Directory, DWP, Ed Balls, Employment, Financial services, George Osborne, Gregg McClymont, National Employment Savings Trust, NEST, Payola, Pension Regulator, pensions, Retirement, Steve Webb, Tim Jones, twitter
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We need a Bus and a Lamborghini!
My friend Ralph Frank is very good at putting his finger on the problem. If he was a Doctor, I’d trust his diagnosis and I like to think of him with a stethoscope prodding around the body financial – listening … Continue reading
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Tagged Bus, Business, dc pensions, Employment, Government, Insurance, Investing, lamborghini, Pension Protection Fund, Pension Regulator, pensions, Retirement, Society, Steve Webb, taxi
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