Tag Archives: Personal pension scheme

Pensions Bindweed- pretty and deadly

Management is a carrot and stick affair. If you are managing a company  pension plan you can reward your pension manager with ongoing support or you can give it the sack. That’s  governance for you. But if you are sponsoring a … Continue reading

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Scheme Pensions aren’t the magic bullet -yet

There seems to be irrational exuberance among some parts of the IFA community that a new solution is round the corner to what are seen to be the poor “at retirement” options presented by conventional annuities or the new drawdown (under … Continue reading

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Coalition – come clean on your plan for our pension.

My criticism of the Green Paper is that while it is long on philosophising on the impact of longevity, the need for fairness and for personal responsibility, it’s short on idntifying the winners and losers in the process.

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Personal Pensions – why competition didn’t work

It is now the urgent job of those left standing to do something about this legacy and an equal responsibility to ensure that the future continues to look a little brighter.

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