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GPPs may be victims of their sponsor’s negotiating skill.
In the first decade of the century, employers looking to put distance between themselves and the outcomes of pensions chose group personal pensions. The personal pension was all that a company pension wasn’t, encouraging personal engagement with retirement issues with … Continue reading
If you can’t choose on price…what? The employer’s dilemma – choosing pensions for staff
The FCA ,TPR and DWP have made it clear that they are uncomfortable that workplace pensions are being chosen on price. There are good reasons for this, the first of which is that low-price usually correlates with poor investment and … Continue reading
Why we shouldn’t choose pension providers just on price!
The decision from the DWP to defer prescribing on how a commercial pension provider charges member’s for their services is welcome. It would have been better if we didn’t have to consult further and that the Government made the message … Continue reading
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Tagged DWP, interactive invetor, pension, Pension Bee, Price, value, Value for Money
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“No more junkets if you cut our margins” – IFAs warned.
Delegates at PIMS 2017, a floating holiday for Financial Planners (and journalists), seem have been threatened . “Platforms will struggle to cut charges without affecting existing services”, Seven Investment Management (7IM) head of platform Verona Smith told advisers (including New Model Adviser to … Continue reading
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Tagged 7IM, FCA, IFA, platforms, Price, Technology, value, Value for Money
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Alan Miller on price clustering among asset managers.
We recently published new research, backing up the recent FCA Asset Management Study findings regarding price clustering (i.e. cartel like pricing) within the UK fund management industry. SCM Direct analysed the non-index or tracker clean share classes of 683 funds … Continue reading
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Tagged Asset Management Study, CIO, FCA, IA, Price, Price clustering, SCM
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Sustainable pricing is key to workplace pension support!
That Workie lumbering around the park has a price tag. If he’s the NOW workie, he costs £40pm and if he’s People’s Pesnsion’s Workie you need to dish out £3-500 to use him in your workplace . Standard Life … Continue reading
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Tagged durability, DWP, Price, sustainability, the Pension Regualator, Workie
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What should we pay for the annuity guarantee?
The publication of the FCA’s market study on annuities has not met with much enthusiasm. Consumerists do not think it has gone far enough to punish lazy insurers. Those on the sell side find it hard to understand what … Continue reading
Stamp Collecting – Britain’s most profitable hobby.
Once upon a time Britain invented the universal penny post that allowed your for 1d to send a letter anywhere in the UK. Because we invented the service and did the infrastructure properly we became the envy of the world and … Continue reading
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Tagged Collecting, First-class cricket, Leonard Cohen, Mail, Ofcom, Post office, Postage stamp, Price, Royal Mail, Stamps
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You can’t buy a sausage with a brick
Time to start saving for your future lads – you can’t buy a sausage with a brick – never could. You certainly can’t fund your retirement from negative equity.