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Standard Life insures its own staff pension scheme; did the trustee find Standard Life’s covenant weak?
I find this hard to understand. Standard Life owns ReAssure. This buy out from the members point of view means losing upside from the pension scheme’s surplus for the reassurance (pun obvious) of an insurance policy underwritten by Standard Life. … Continue reading
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Tagged Gowling, Mercer, Reassure, Staff Pension Scheme, Standard Life, WTW
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ReAssure’s IGC toughs it out – but the cracks are plain to see.
The Reassure IGC report for 2022 tells a different story from the headline. Not only did Reassure provide value for money in 2022 but it provided it in 2021 as well. Digging down into the complaints about ReAssure’s “appalling service”, … Continue reading
ReAssure’s IGC report – proves there can be value at the bottom of the barrel.
This article focusses on the IGC Chair’s report for ReAssure, published in September for the year to the end of 2021. As its Chair, David Hare makes clear, it doesn’t include the member experience for 2022, that will follow – … Continue reading
Reassured by its IGC?
The Reassure IGC report Life at ReAssure is complicated, so complicated that we have to learn there are two different ReAssures; ReAssure Ltd. manages legacy books (now branded “heritage books”), while ReAssure Life Ltd – which you probably know as … Continue reading
ReAssure’s IGC report
ReAssure, after a short delay, have published their 2019/20 IGC report which you can read here It’s a betwixt and between document as at the time of publication, ReAssure is in the process of being acquired by Phoenix and in … Continue reading
Posted in actuaries, advice gap, IGC, pensions
Tagged IGC, pensions, Reassure, workplace pensons
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Pension Plowman’s guide to 2020 IGC reports
This is a big year for IGCs. It is their fifth birthday, it’s the year when the FCA reviews their effectiveness and it’s the year of the pandemic, where providers and savers will be under maximum strain. Most of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Aegon, Aviva, BlackRock, FCA, Fidelity, Hargreaves Lansdown, IGC, IGC report, L&G, Pensions, Phoenix, Prudential, Reassure, Royal London, Scottish Widows, SJP, Standard Life, Virgin Monday, workplace Pensions, Zurich
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Who will patrol the investment pathways?
Investment pathways are the big idea to help those getting to 55 and with pension freedom in sight. From August, people will be presented with four paths for their money. One takes them to a point when they can … Continue reading
Posted in IGC, pensions
Tagged David Hare, FCA, GAA, governance, IGC, music, pensions, Phoenix, Pitmans, PSITL, Reassure
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ReAssuring us through its IGC?
A word on padding The first thing you notice about the ReAssure IGC report is stock images. Page one and two are entirely devoted to them, page three and four have one, page five has five and page six is … Continue reading
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Tagged ESG, IGC, outcomes, pensions, Reassure, Trust Pilot
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Reassure’s IGC produce another good report
Reassure, the life insurance consolidator owned by Swiss Re, continues to swallow up large numbers of what the market calls “legacy” pensions. If you took out a pension in the past and stopped paying, you still have rights to that … Continue reading