Tag Archives: Pensions

What’s the value for the risk I take (in my pensions)

Posted on September 21, 2020 by

  Guest blog from Rahul Agarwal   The problem we are trying to solve We start with the aim of creating universally applicable metrics which help understand the value people have got for their money and the likelihood of future … Continue reading →

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How SUEZ boosted their staff’s pension pots by £8.65m

Posted on September 18, 2020 by

  I really admire organisations that are prepared to take a chance and test their workplace pensions for value for money. SUEZ is one such organisation. Michelle Sutton, SUEZ Head of pensions and reward talks here about  how since 2004 … Continue reading →

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Why value for money must be assessed on saver’s data

Posted on September 14, 2020 by

The numbers in the boxes above  show how much value a group of savers have done with £523m invested in their pots. On the face of it, they have got a better return on average (4.75%) than if they’d been … Continue reading →

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Net pay pension problems? – don’t leave them to the Treasury

Posted on September 13, 2020 by

The headline is misleading, the Treasury are not looking for solutions, they are looking for the long-grass ;  unless people who give a damn , tell the Treasury to pull their finger out, 1.7m low earners will continue to overpay … Continue reading →

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Payroll + Pensions = Value for money! Register here for the event of next week

Posted on September 12, 2020 by

  REGISTER HERE This is going to be by far and away the best webinar you could watch next week REGISTER HERE Hosted with our thanks by the CIPP   For a sneak peak of payroll’s best kept secret – … Continue reading →

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Why I don’t support LCP and Royal London’s calls to boost DB transfer advice

Posted on September 10, 2020 by

  LCP and Royal London jointly presented to an audience of 300 industry professionals yesterday on the vexed topic of “helping members get transfer advice”. The webinar can be watched here  and as you’d expect from these organisations, this was … Continue reading →

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All party parliamentary group on pension scams takes shape

Posted on September 8, 2020 by

      Well done Andy Agethangelou and the Transparency Task Force for establishing an APPG to deal with pension scams. At a time when personal and financial vulnerability is high, attention to the threats to our pensions is welcome. … Continue reading →

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Philip Bennett’s DB funding code response

Posted on September 4, 2020 by

Given that the future is unknowable (and particularly over very long time horizons), it is  poor regulation to encourage all DB Schemes to adopt similar investment strategies (herding). Continue reading →

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No more reports – nobody reads!

Posted on April 14, 2020 by

Baroness Bennett, Stedman-Scott and Altmann – getting things done   Every year occupational pensions schemes are required to publish reports that nobody reads. Clearly this is unsatisfactory and we could go two ways Stop writing the reports (would anyone notice?) … Continue reading →

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Pension Plowman’s guide to 2020 IGC reports

Posted on April 12, 2020 by

This is a big year for IGCs. It is their fifth birthday, it’s the year when the FCA reviews their effectiveness and it’s the year of the pandemic, where providers and savers will be under maximum strain. Most of the … Continue reading →

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