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Tag Archives: personal pension
No one should ever have to buy a poor annuity again.
I’ve just read an article that could best be described as smug. It’s written by a lawyer in the financial regulation team of Foot Anstey – Alan Hughes. I don’t know Alan but I know his firm and have a … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, age wage, annuity, pensions
Tagged annuity, Drawdown, GAR, George Osborne, pension, personal pension
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Pensions need to be sold for the sausage not the sizzle.
A great observation from Steve Groves, CEO of partnership this morning. @henryhtapper @tcfDAN @clivewaller healthy people were buying to early. Lie expectancy increased 10yrs and annuitisation age didn't move… — steve_g@partnership (@Sjg3G) January 12, 2016 By “buying” Steve means “buying … Continue reading
Posted in pensions
Tagged advice, annuity, auto enrolment, Business, Business and Economy, dc pensions, DWP, Employment, Financial services, Government, National Employment Savings Trust, Pension new, pension playpen, pensions, personal pension, Retirement, Sausage, sizzle, Steve Groves
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Common sense needed on transfers
Whether you’re moving house or moving money, the process is fraught. We are no closer to pots following member than when the “portable personal pension” was established in 1987. The friction involved in moving money from scheme to scheme, fund … Continue reading
Posted in Change
Tagged annuities, Common sense, Freedom, guarantees, Money, moving money, pension freedom, pension savings, pension transfers, pensions, personal pension, Thomas Paine
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Why we will have to wait for our freedom.
A prospect of market failure The sentence may have been over-turned but the prisoner is not free. At best he can wander the prison yard but the prison gates remain locked and even when they open , the pension will … Continue reading
Posted in pensions
Tagged annuity, Chris Noon, dc pensions, Defined benefit pension plan, defined benefit pension schemes, Dispatches, DWP, Employment, Freedom and choice in pensions, Hymans Robertson, pension freedom, Pension new, pension playpen, pensions, personal pension, personal pensions, Retirement, Steve Webb
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