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Creative Pension Trust? – don’t ask me!
Industry gossip or genuine cause for concern? A number of conversations I had at yesterday’s Capacity Crunch conference at the Friends of Auto-Enrolment focussed on the febrile finances of master trust arrangements. In particular, the arrangement between the trustees and … Continue reading
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Tagged accountants, auto enrolment, Creative Pension Trust, due diligence, pension playpen, practice, Risk
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Pro Bono – remember that? Hat’s off to ICPA and QTAC
I’ve been blogging recently about failure The failure of the Investment Association to align itself with the interests of its ultimate customers- consumers The failure of the NAPF to engage with employers not in the club (namely the 1.8 m … Continue reading
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Tagged accountancy, auto enrolment, Payroll, pensions, practice, Tax
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Come on Sage – you can and should do better!
Sage are a great British success story. Over the past 20 years they have become pre-eminent as a payroll software supplier and latterly a portal for a range of back-office business solutions. Www.pensionplaypen.com is itself a business customer, using SagePay … Continue reading
“A question of trust”- accountants and auto-enrolment pensions.
I’m not going to quote Einstein’s definition of insanity as that would be madness. To understand how tactical short-cuts spiral into destruction look at what PPI has done to the share price of our high-street banks This blog is for accountants who … Continue reading
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Tagged accountants, advice, auto enrolment, Brand, cattle, dc pensions, DWP, Employment, Financial Services Authority, pension playpen, Pension Regulator, pensions, practice, Practitioner, profession, regulators, Retirement, wokrplace pensions
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Auto-enrolment’s tactical- pensions are strategic
The old questions “are you managing your business or is your business managing you?” and “fail to plan, plan to fail” are annoyingly true- annoying because they are business clichés and doubly annoying as they remind us of the … Continue reading