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Tag Archives: Pot
Green pensions? How the DWP are looking to take the luck out of the pot.
Gina Miller is right on this Encouraging people to go green with their #pensions is an excellent aspiration but be very cautious @GuyOpperman Until @TheFCA protects consumers by granting 100% transparency of holdings, acts to stop #greenwashing – this could … Continue reading
Posted in accountants, advice gap, age wage
Tagged Department for Work and Pensions, ESG, Green, Impact investment, luck, Pensions, Pot, SRI
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Should DC investment strategy be driven by pot size?
The FCA’s latest market data was published last week and it’s highlighted trends that I’ve been identifying on this blog for a few months. Just over 645,000 pension plans were accessed to buy an annuity, move into drawdown or take … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, age wage, consolidation, pensions
Tagged annuity, FCA, pension, pensions, Pot
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How to turn a pot into a pension (megablog)
Hello and thanks for your interest! This mega-blog should be helpful to people who are 55 or older and have money “stuck” in pensions which they could do with to replace income from work. “Stuck” is the right word, most … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, age wage, pensions
Tagged pension, Pension Bee, Pension Freedoms, Pot
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Why the pension dashboards have to be commercial
Government pension projects rarely succeed and where they do succeed – it is because the public and private sectors find a way to work together. There are exceptions – the state pension and unfunded public sector schemes are pretty … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, age wage, pensions
Tagged AgeWage, Dashboard, pension, Pot, public, the Sun
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Self-sufficiency for pensions.
Whether you are in charge of the PPF , one of the 13 Carillion defined benefit schemes, or any one of the thousand or so “distressed” pension schemes that might no have a sponsor able to bale it out;-the term … Continue reading
Posted in CDC, pensions
Tagged CDC, Company Pension, DB, pensions, Pot, Wage for life, workplace
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DRAWDOWN TAX; I’m as free as a bird (in a cage)
I’m as free as a bird can be when “freedom” is defined and confined by HMRC. “Me” as case study; I have a pension pot which wealth managers call “big” but can only supply me with an income of £15,000 … Continue reading
Do we need so many pension schemes?
Ireland’s pension regulator wants to cut the number of corporate retirement plans in the country from 150,000 to 100 in a move that would put pressure on pension providers and asset managers to reduce fees. So it’s reported in the … Continue reading
Pothole follows member
At one moment, as I sneakily followed the autumn statement on twitter (while supposed to be doing strategy), I heard the Chancellor remark Over the next five years the Government will spend £250m to pay for pothole repairs This has … Continue reading
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Tagged auto enrolment, Business and Economy, dc pensions, DWP, Employment, Financial services, jo cumbo, Paul Lewis, Pot, pothole, Steve Webb
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When spending your retirement pot – the first 5 years are vital – Con Keating
The process of converting retirement savings assets into an income, which has come to be known as decumulation, needs first to be placed in context. The decumulation phase of retirement savings is that period when an income is drawn from … Continue reading
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Tagged CDC, decmulaiotn, decumulation, Pot, retirement pot, spending, volatility
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So just how does pot follow member?
Steve Webb was a politician long on vision but short on execution and no vision of Webb’s was less thought through than the big idea that we should all have “one big fat pot”. So of all Webb’s pension models … Continue reading
