Tag Archives: Security
Unlike a wage for life , a pension pot’s “Number” rarely turns up!
This is odd and tells us something about what an excess of money does to people’s sense of security in old age. I am not sure there comes something called security. Infact I see “wealth” as something that makes the … Continue reading
Do we need a guidance guarantee? Will VFM and the Pension Dashboard do?
In 2014, the pension freedoms came with a Guidance guarantee. It is still in place but little used. It has been overtaken by the pension platform and most recently by the decumulation defaults introduced by the Pension Schemes Bill. The … Continue reading
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Tagged flexibility, increases, pension, rates, Security, Value for Money
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Who’ll benefit from easing insurer’s capital requirements?
NEW: UK Govt says it’s “committed” to ensuring the insurance regime remains a “safe home” for people’s pensions. but also that UK insurers “remain internationally competitive”. Govt was responding to a written question on the impact of Solvency2 reforms.https://t.co/FuwkoouYOR — … Continue reading
How Linked in saved you from my being hacked
Yesterday at 12.41 I got a mail from linked in telling me that an email address had been added to my Linked in account. At 12.46 I tried to remove the mail but I had already been locked out of … Continue reading
“Certainty and Security”; a message for British Steel Pensioners.
This is a message to British Steel Pensioners who may be feeling uncertain about the British Steel Pension Scheme. The message is simple, you have two secure options, the BSPS2 and the PPF, for most of you BSPS2 will be … Continue reading
A business-friendly Pension Green Paper
I went to a talk yesterday from the CBI’s Carolyn Fairbairn. It was a lot more optimistic on business prospects than I’d expected (having heard her gnashing her teeth following the referendum). To be fair, she was saying then that … Continue reading
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Tagged BHS, Carlyn Fairbairn, DWP, Frances O Grady, Frank Field, pensions, Security, sustainability, TPR, women
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Let my money go!
I woke up to news that the Pension Play Pen RBS bank account can now be accessed by my iphone using fingertip security. Apparently mobile technology has outwitted clunky old pc technology which makes my thumb all that stands between … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, Pension Freedoms, pension playpen, pensions
Tagged Bank, digital, fingerprint recognition, I phone, Insurane, pension, Pension Freedoms, Security, Touchscreen
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40,000 Londoners get cold at the Olympic Stadium
The “London Prepares” events climaxed last night at the opening of the Olympic Stadium in Siberian Stratford last night. We came, we saw and we left early – underwhelmed by the experience. Which is a little unfair on an event that … Continue reading
Posted in corporate governance, Occupy London, Olympics 2012, Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race
Tagged Athletics, BBC, BUCS, Gabby Logan, London, Matt Dawson, Olmpics 2012, Olympic, Olympic Games, Olympic Park London, Olympic Stadium, Seb Coe, Security, Siberia, Simon Levy, stratford, West Ham, Westfield
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When someone takes you over – stealing your e-mail identity
At 7.50 yesterday I logged onto my Gmail account in Leeds to find a message saying I’d changed my password twenty minutes before. Twenty minutes later I got a call from a friend in Australia that I’d asked him for money to … Continue reading
Posted in corporate governance, customer service, social media
Tagged Australia, Facebook, Google, Identity theft, Mail, Password, Security, Spain
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