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Ros Altmann’s first big political test
The WASPI petition is now in the hands of a small group of parliamentarians who decide whether the petition’s 100,000 signatories have enough of a point to trigger a parliamentary debate. Large as 100,000 is, it is not so politically … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, Employment, Government, pension, pension reform, Pension Regulator, pensions, Politics, Retirement, Ros Altmann, state pension, Steve Webb, WASPI
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Why now’s the time to get behind our Pensions Minister
Good pension ministers, like good football managers are hard to find and harder to keep. They are hard to find as it is a job few that are up to it would want. They are hard to keep because … Continue reading
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Tagged DWP, Greg McClymont, pension minister, PLSA, Politics, Ros Altmann, Steve Webb, Treasury
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Can the pension insurers win back their customers’ respect?
IGCs are ours to use and not the insurers to castrate. Continue reading
Posted in governance, investment, later life, leadership, Pension Freedoms, pension playpen, pensions
Tagged advosors, Fiduciary, Government, IFAs, IGC, Inurer, pension, Pension Freedoms, Politics, Ros Altmann
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“10 years too early, 10 years too late” – CDC stands on on an empty platform
Nearly eight years ago, the Government Actuary ‘s Department produced a paper that effectively killed CDC. It argued that CDC could not be relied upon to deliver benefits with the same certainty as our DB system and that there was no … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, CDC, Pension Freedoms, pension playpen, pensions
Tagged CDC, DWP, FAMR, Financial literacy, GAD, Pension Freedoms, pensions, Personal emplowement, Politics, Ros Altmann, Steve Webb, Treasury
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Tidings of great joy from the ICAEW
Auto-enrolment is a worry to accountants. Estimates are pretty consistent that around two thirds of all employers staging auto enrolment will look to accountants for compliance with auto-enrolment regulations and help with choosing and setting up a workplace pension. Unfortunately … Continue reading
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Tagged accountants, auto enrolment, corporate governance, corporate risk, dc pensions, fact sheet, Financial services, Friends of Auto-Enrolment, Government, ICAEW, pension, Pension new, pension playpen, pensions, PI insurance, Politics, Risk, The Pensions Regulator, TPR, Workie
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Pensions are dead – long live pensions!
The OECD have spoken – British workers will have worse pensions than folk from any other OECD country; this from Patrick Collinson in the Guardian. Workers in the UK will have the worst pensions of any major economy and the … Continue reading
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Tagged auto enrolment, Business, Business and Economy, corporate governance, dc pensions, Financial services, grave, Guardian, OECD, Patrick Collinson, pensions, Politics, Tax, Taxation
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“Winning hearts and minds” – what IGCs can do for retirement saving!
What so concerned many of us when we read the comments from the Independent Governance Committee’s recent meetings at Evershed’s city offices, was that they showed no unified sense of purpose, no urgency and worst of all – confusion about … Continue reading
Posted in governance, investment, pensions
Tagged auto enrolment, Business, corporate governance, Financial services, governance, Government, hearts and minds, IGC, Independent Governance Committees, Indpendent, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, Pension new, pension playpen, pensions, Politics, Ros Altmann
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Why this carnage at the Investment Association?
I think I owe Daniel Godfrey an apology. I met him on a couple of occasions and he impressed upon me he was serious about transparency of cost and charges. I didn’t believe him- or at least I thought he … Continue reading
What Mr Corbyn taught us yesterday
Yesterday was the first parliamentary test of Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership. He created history by crowd-sourcing 6 questions from over 40,000 submitted him by people like you and me. Because these questions were from ordinary people, they were treated with respect. … Continue reading
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Tagged Angela Eagle, Claridges Hotel, Corbyn, David Cameron, Iain Anderson, Jeremy Corbyn, Politics, question time
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