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“What’s the purpose of a pension scheme?” – Con Keating
Con Keating argues in this piece that pension schemes aspire to “self-sufficiency”, giving them the status of insurance companies. His thinking centres on what claims we have on schemes if the covenant to fund these schemes is lost. His conclusions … Continue reading
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Tagged Con Keating, pension, pension scheme, regulation, solvency, TPR
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A wage in retirement or freedom from pensions?
Yesterday I wrote about one aspect of the dispute between Royal Mail and its workers – the difference in opinion between the two sides on how postal workers are financially supported in retirement. It appears very simple; Royal Mail want to … Continue reading
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Tagged CDC, CWU, pension, pension scheme, pensions, Retirement, Royal Mail
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How Pensions are getting fairer.
I was speaking with a Scottish friend , an academic and one of the few politicians I know who was brought up without a lot of money in the family. I had to phrase that carefully, for when I first wrote … Continue reading
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Posted in pensions, Pensions Regulator, Ros Altmann
Tagged auto enrolment, Business, Employment, Financial services, Government, National Employment Savings Trust, occupational pension schemes, pension, Pension new, Pension Protection Fund, Pension Regulator, pension scheme, pension schemes, pensions, Retirement, short-service, Tax
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Why due diligence is soooooooo important!
Yesterday I wrote about pension charges and the difference between poor practice and malpractice . At some point the value for money swing-ometre tips into rip-off territory and it’s almost always when those managing its costs of a scheme, stop acting … Continue reading
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Posted in accountants, auto-enrolment, pensions
Tagged advice, auto enrolment, Business, Business and Economy, corporate governance, corporate risk, dc pensions, due diligence, Employment, Financial services, first actuarial, occupational pension schemes, penions, pension, pension playpen, pension scheme, pension schemes
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I smell a (pensions) rat – what can I do?
An advert appeared yesterday on the Pension Play Pen Linked In Group.. If you’re in our Group, you can see it here The organisation – Save My Pension is offering a “route to market” with the message from its Director Danny Smith … Continue reading
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Tagged advice, alternative investment, Employment, Financial services, Fraud, Gallium, Guidance, Investing, Investment, Investment management, liberation, occupational pension scheme, Pension Liberation, pension playpen, Pension Regulator, pension scheme, Retirement, route to market, Scam
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Why DB pension promises may need a credit rating.
How do you rate the creditworthiness of your scheme’s funding? Trustees of defined benefit schemes now have to properly assess the employer’s ability (and willingness) to fund the promises made to the members of the scheme. The assessment helps them in negotiations with the … Continue reading
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Posted in de-risking, defined ambition, Pension Freedoms, pension playpen, pensions, Pensions Regulator
Tagged Alan Rubenstein, annuity, Blog, Business, DB, defined benefit, Defined benefit pension plan, Employment, Guarantee, Insurance, Pension new, pension promise, pension scheme, pensions, ppf, Retirement, the Telegraph
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NOW – that’s what I call pensions!
Why the Pension PlayPen supports NOW as a workplace pension It’s no easy thing starting a master trust from scratch. Though NOW Pensions, had the experience of running a state backed pension in Denmark (through parent APT), coming … Continue reading
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Posted in advice gap, auto-enrolment, now, pensions
Tagged employers, growing pains, MAoney Marketing, Mastertrusts, Moreton Nilsson, NOW, NOW Pensions, pension, pension scheme, pensions
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