Extending time horizons can ease short-term funding pressure, but it shifts risk toward younger members. Reform should make those intergenerational…
I've just come across this letter from Smithers, covering DB pensions in general and the USS in particular. https://smithers.co.uk/extending-the-liabilities-time-horizon-is-key-to-pensions-reform/
Great. A chance to nit-pick something from Steve Webb. The Married Woman’s Option finished in 1977, not 1978. SERPS was…
I was told by the Pensions Service, that if I divorced my husband before I retired, I would get a…
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Something every UK start up should know about finance!
Pension PlayPen Ltd is funded in part by a SEIS. We are a start up funded by the private savings of its Founding Directors. We know it’s hard to get funding from the banks. We know it’s hard to keep … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, Business and Economy, corporate governance, corporate risk, Employment, Financial services, Government, pension, pensions, social media, Society
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There’s nothing stopping SMEs purchasing good pensions
This article plugs the needs for good pension purchasing and argues that both in terms of quality (governance) and quantity (supply) , employers have never had it so good. There is a lot of talk at the moment about DC … Continue reading
Employers can help staff with their money – if only we’d let them
It’s time companies got their mojo back and got real with staff. Www.pensionplaypen.com helps to do just that. Continue reading
The best fans in the land – #ytfc
In characteristically generous fashion, Yeovil Town applauded the 2000 travelling Burnley fans at last week’s game at the Huish both at the ground and on twitter afterwards. They were generally acknowledged the loudest we’ve had all season and we are … Continue reading
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Tagged Association football, championship, England, Facebook, football, social media, twitter, Yeovil, Yeovil Town, Yeovil True, YTFC
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The trusted word
This is the model for what we are doing with Pension PlayPen, an attempt to harness the energy and credibility of a linked in group, the probity of an actuarial practice and the needs of advisers, employers and regulators to see through a great endeavour, the wholesale adoption of funded workplace pensions into our business culture.
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Tagged Business, Financial services, Government, Linked in, pensions, social media, twitter, YouTube
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Humankind cannot stand too much reality.
TS Eliot was right as the game-makers King have proved with their addictive smart phone and Facebook app Candy Crunch. Candy Crunch is a game that involves wiping out rows of candy shaped icons from a screen. Wipe enough and … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, Business and Economy, Facebook, social media, twitter
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Do linkedin endorsements do your head in?
You can’t stop someone from endorsing you, but you can opt out of having your endorsements show on your profile Continue reading
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Tagged Business, corporate governance, corporate risk, Financial services, Linked in, linkedin, London, pension playpen, social media, Society, twitter
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August PlayPen lunch; – AE without advice?
The PlayPen lunch split 5/5 on the issue, advisers and lawyers reckoning that advice was not only a practical but also a regulatory “must have” before employers staged auto-enrolment. In a regulatory context the division was on whether Steve Webb … Continue reading
Steve Webb’s water-cooler moment
“You learn what they care about, what they understand and what they don’t. And you can join in. But what you can’t do, is take charge.” Continue reading
Posted in actuaries, annuity, pension playpen, pensions, social media
Tagged DWP, Minister (government), pension, social media, Steve Webb, Sun, Vincent Franklin, Webb
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When taxation is retroactive it will change behaviour. Be careful with envy focused legislation promote real solutions to British poor…