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Standard Life and Dalriada offer a port in the storm.
Well done Dalriada and Standard Life for setting up a “safe haven” for those who’ve been scammed out of their pension savings. What’s left – after the scammers, lawyers and advisers have had their cut deserves a safe haven and … Continue reading
Are IFAs overserved?
I read that Standard Life has pulled back from providing a fresh platform for IFAs after a review concluded the traditional provider platform space is ‘very well served’. Independent financial advisers are served through software that offers them a load of … Continue reading
Happy days for Standard Life
I spent an afternoon with Standard Life yesterday learning about its mastertrust and developments in its employer and employee facing proposition. The pleasure of the day was marked by meeting two old friends, David John – a Virginian who looks … Continue reading
How Standard Life’s Master Trust could be a world beater.
Over this Easter weekend, Helen Dean, former CEO of Nest and one of the architects of auto-enrolment, will take over as Chair of Standard Life’s Master Trust. Big challenge 1.0 She can look back at this statement, made when she … Continue reading
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Tagged Cushon, L&G, NEST, Pensions, Smart, Standard Life, workplace Pensions
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A good IGC report from Standard Life – but spare us the “calls to action”!
As you might expect, Standard Life’s IGC report paints a very rosy picture of the value Standard Life savers are getting for their money (the pointer heads right not left). What you mightn’t expect are the calls to action to … Continue reading
Is the disruption over? Can the annuity be challenged? We think so!
The great CDC Debate with Arun, Henry , Simon and Stefan https://t.co/XjmC8sv5Qb via @YouTube — Henry Tapper (@henryhtapper) September 4, 2023 Anyone looking for a unilaterally agreed solution to the problems we are having turning pots to pensions, shouldn’t spend … Continue reading
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Tagged Arun Muralidhar, CDC, Claire Altman, Pensions, Phoenix, SeLFIES, Simon Eagle, Standard Life, Stefan Lundbergh
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Can these insurers become useful to pension savers again?
Time was when people regarded a pension as an insurance against getting old, right now insurers compete with master trusts and SIPPs for the nation’s retirement saving and the staple features that made them indispensable seem increasingly irrelevant. … Continue reading
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Tagged annuities, assured retirement, Aviva, Canada Life, Hodge, Just, L&G, LV, Pensions, Scottish Widows, Standard Life
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Assessment of 2021 IGC reports – a boring read but an important one!
Despite the efforts of the FCA to make IGC reporting more relevant to ordinary savers, I found this crop of IGC reports were bland and unambitious in their reporting of VFM. No IGC suggested that value for money was not … Continue reading
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Tagged Aegon, Aviva, Fidelity, GAA, IGC, l7g, Prudential, Royal London, Scottish Widows, Standard Life, Vanguard, Virgin
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Standard Life’s IGC report – too long , too angry and wrong!
Standard Life has produced a bumper 162 age IGC report – a kind of shock and awe statement from David Hare – which is issues together with IGC reports for other Phoenix insurers – Phoenix and ReAssure. They get 100 … Continue reading
The real cost of buying a pension for your household
New analysis of government figures by Standard Life, , highlights that the average retired couple has a pension income worth £284 per week – made up of both occupational and private pension income – excluding state pension income. *Figures assume … Continue reading