Tag Archives: pensions
Retirement’s also about debt
If you look at the Trustee board for StepChange, Britain’s largest charity dealing with the impact of debt, you will see three people familiar to the pension community Sue Lewis (right) – now a trustee of People’s Pension and formerly … Continue reading
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Tagged AgeWage, Helen Dean, Lesley Titcomb, pensions, Retirement, Sue Lewis
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Are you saving or investing?
Martin Lewis is bang on the money, we save with the expectation of certain outcomes and we invest , speculating on getting more than from saving, with the potential for less. If you think this is motherhood and apple pie, … Continue reading
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Tagged Investor, Martin Lewis, pensions, Saver
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Tom McPhail – “the Thunderer’s thunderer” #pensions #tax #relief
Sir, The government should abandon its attempts to find a quick fix to the pension allowance taper problem affecting high earners including doctors and judges (“Pension tax windfall for top earners”, Jan 16, and letter, Jan 17). The pension tax … Continue reading
Three little pots went to market
The point of this blog is to show 1. One way of avoiding the damaging impact of the MPAA on future saving 2. The depth of knowledge needed to make good at retirement decisions (especially where there is no adviser … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, age wage, Big Government, pensions
Tagged HMRC, MPAA, pension pots, pensions, pots, Tax, Three pot rule, TPAS, Tricial pots
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Why a new pensions commission would fail
There’s a call from our current pensions minister to set up another pension commission like we had fifteen years ago. That commission was a success as it resulted in progressive policies like auto-enrolment and made us sit up and think … Continue reading
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Tagged Guy Opperman, Pension Commission, pensions, Retirement, Ros Altmann, Steve Webb, Tax, tax-releif
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Is “Happy Money” the key to retirement planning?
Yesterday afternoon, I and my colleague Aron had tea with Rory Sutherland. I’d asked Rory if we could meet having been to hear him speak and bumping into him in the street. He’s a raconteur, author, Deputy Chair of … Continue reading
Steve Webb, LCP and Royal London
We are delighted to announce that former Pensions Minister Steve Webb will be joining LCP as a partner. He will be working on our client service offering & spearheading LCP campaigns to help the pensions industry stay apace with member … Continue reading
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Tagged Bob Scott, LCP, pensions, Royal London, Seve Webb
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Answering customer’s questions means knowing what those questions are
In this blog I talk about the failings of the financial services industry – the pensions industry in particular – to answer the questions people have. I look at this at three levels – at big data level – through … Continue reading
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Tagged Angela Probert, Dashboard, Gavin Littlejohn, open finance, pensions
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Let the Lady speak for me (on Brexit)
I was a silent remainer. I have been a Liberal most of my life, voted Liberal in #GE2019 and am proud to know Ros Altmann and Gina Miller as friends. Yesterday I bowed in front of the Throne in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Brexit, Gina Miller, House of Lords, pensions, Remainer, Ros Altmann
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Retirement plans meet people’s needs (not what we want to sell them)
This is a blog about Gareth Morgan, Greggs and about how we meet the needs of all people in retirement, not just the sufficient Here is Gareth’s blog – AgeWage will be integrating Gareth’s analytics into our work on … Continue reading
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Tagged Ben Jupp, Bonus sacifice, Earnings, Gareth Morgan, Greggs, pensions, Social Finance
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