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No more reports – nobody reads!
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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Posted in advice gap, age wage, dc pensions, governance, Guidance, pensions
Tagged Chair statement, DWP, Pensions, Ros Altmann, SIP, Stedman-Scott, TPR
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Pension Plowman’s guide to 2020 IGC reports
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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Tagged Aegon, Aviva, BlackRock, FCA, Fidelity, Hargreaves Lansdown, IGC, IGC report, L&G, Pensions, Phoenix, Prudential, Reassure, Royal London, Scottish Widows, SJP, Standard Life, Virgin Monday, workplace Pensions, Zurich
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Is Fidelity’s IGC papering over the cracks?
Kim Nash and Anna Bradley are the only female IGC Chairs. Kim’s not only IGC chair at Fidelity, she’s chair of the master trust. She’s not only chair of the Fidelity master trust , but chair of the Scottish Widows … Continue reading
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Posted in Financial Conduct Authority, IGC, pensions
Tagged FCA, Fidelity, IGC, Kim Nash, Pensions, workplace Pensions
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Does Aegon’s IGC deliver “what matters most to us”?
Aegon’s IGC Chair Statement has been published , you can read it here Helpfully Ian Pittaway and Helen Parker have a conversation on the IGC’s activities on the video. Unfortunately, video has a habit of turning lawyers into marketing people … Continue reading
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Precisely right – Scottish Widow’s IGC
Mark Stewart has issues his first Statement , having taken over as Chair of the Scottish Widows IGC. You can read it here. It is brief , accurate and it has a distinct tone which I like. The contents page … Continue reading
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Tagged IGC, pension, Pensions, Scottish Widows, Zurich
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Shouldn’t pensions “stay at home”?
Should we stop transfers for the next 6 months? Yields are down, markets are down, has there ever been such a time to transfer your pension rights? That’s what many people may be thinking and if you were a … Continue reading
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Posted in advice gap, age wage, FCA, Financial Conduct Authority, pensions, Pensions Regulator
Tagged CETV, FCA, Pensions, Ros Altmann, TPR, transfer-value
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Is MaPS creating a UK Financial Wellbeing Movement?
At this time of crisis , we need to be deploying our resources to meet the immediate needs of our customers and MaPS should be no different Continue reading
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Tagged advice, annuity, auto enrolment, Business, debt, Debt management plan, DWP, MAPS, Pensions
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Pension Bee talks, LGIM listens
The Guardian announces this morning that Pension Bee’s campaign to get access to an LGIM fund that divests from companies profiting from fossil fuels. Getting the mighty LGIM. Britain’s biggest fund manager, to respond to customer pressure is no mean … Continue reading
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Tagged #pensions, Business, dc pensions, Financial services, Government, LGIM, Pension Bee, Pensions
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Upstairs Downstairs RIP -today’s domestic employment market has moved on.
As we grow more affluent – British families are outsourcing many of their domestic duties Many of the employers who will be staging auto-enrolment by the end of decade have no idea they have any duties to provide pensions. They … Continue reading
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Posted in auto-enrolment, Payroll, pension playpen, pensions, Pensions Regulator
Tagged autoenrolment, Business, domestic, domestic employment, nannies, nannypay, nannytax, pension, Pensions
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24 cheers for The Pension Play Pen Lunch
There’s a fine tradition in this country of people getting together in coffee houses and taverns and sorting out how and with whom business should be transacted. This was how the insurance market was founded in London and it still is how … Continue reading
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Tagged annuity, bribery act, corporate governance, corporate risk, Cyberbury, Debate, Employment, Facebook, Leeds, London, Lunch, mallowstreet, Manchester, National Employment Savings Trust, NEST, pension, Pension new, pension playpen, Pension Pound, Pension Poverty, Pensions, pensions, Public Sector Pensions, social media, yeovil town fc, YTFC
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