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Should we furlough the pensions dashboard?
Until someone delivers a date for the “Dashboard Available Point” – we can have no concrete expectation. Someone is going to have to be brave! https://t.co/2mkk8tWTD8 — Henry Tapper (@henryhtapper) April 8, 2020 The Pension Dashboard took a tiny step … Continue reading
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Tagged Act, Dashboard, Find and view, Pension Dasshboard, pensions, Understand
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Member support: beyond the trustee’s pay-grade?
Since publishing this article , LGIM has made a statement on the closure of the L&G helplines – you can read the statement here The Pensions Regulator and the FCA have delivered guidance on how those with charge of other … Continue reading
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Tagged Aegon, customer support, L&G, pensions, Royal London, Scottish Widows
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Phoenix – an IGC that continues to set standards with another good report
Phoenix IGC has published its 2019-20 Chair Statement. To me this is a most important statement as Phoenix is responsible for administering the savings of most of Britain’s “legacy savings”. Although most of these legacy books don’t have much in … Continue reading
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Tagged David Hare, effective, FCA, IGC, pensions, Phoenix Life, Standard Life
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Suppression vs Mitigation. What’s this all about?
Introduction Put simply the community of nations is responding to the COVID-19 pandemic by trying to implement a suppression strategy. The UK government initially proposed an alternative mitigation strategy never before tried in any recorded history, but has now moved … Continue reading
Posted in actuaries, advice gap, coronavirus, pensions
Tagged actuaries, Adrian Pinington, Coronavirus, COVID19, Mitigation, pensions, Suppression
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People’s Pension gets serious on small pots
The changes announced yesterday by People’s Pension and its parent B&CE are significant. It’s furloughing its sales team, battening down the hatches to new business It’s changing its charging structure, protecting itself against the ruinous impact of small deferred pots. … Continue reading
Aussie actuary flies DC…
I needed to travel to London. I began my preparations with a call to an airline that I hadn’t used before but that I was keen to try, given its appealing advertising. “Wombat Airways, good morning, this is Margaret … Continue reading
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Tagged Actuary, Australia, David Harris, David McNeice, pensions, Wombat air
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Were you thinking of retiring?
For a lot of people my age (58 going on 59), retirement was looking a cert. Now I and many like me, will have to think some more, save some more and maybe be a little less cocky about our … Continue reading
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Tagged annuity, Australia, CDC, Jim Hennington, pensions, Stephen Huppert, variable annuity
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How will USS value itself today?
News has come in that the University Superannuation Scheme (USS) is going to press ahead with a valuation of its assets and liabilities as at the 31st March 2020. It reasons for it in a public statement. I had … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Galvin, Dennis Leech, financial markets, Higher education, Kevin Wesbroom, pensions, USS
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12 reckoners to work out what you’ll get.
New help from the Ferret Gareth Morgan has put online and free for use, his reckoners: – these help people with benefit and grant claims – estimating what they’ll get They are called Ferret Reckoners These reckoners, which are … Continue reading
Should we have a national wealth service?
This article was composed for TC News on the day after the Government closed down the pubs, restaurants cinemas and theatres. It’s a day after the Treasury announced that it would subsidise the wages of those ‘furloughed” by their … Continue reading
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Tagged AgeWage, MAPS, national wealth service, NHS, NWS, pensions
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