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Pension Bee are setting down standards for workplace pensions – help them do it!
There are many things that Pension Bee are doing which are good practice in pensions. I have signed their petition and I hope that you will too. There are hundreds of thousands of people who think of private pensions in … Continue reading
When an insurance company gives a damn…
I’m used to the fake smiles from marketing executives on conference stands and the unctuous statements about customer care that leak from the pens of IGCs and trustees. I have grown skeptical (even cynical) about cultural statements about treating customers … Continue reading
What will be the Government’s pension agenda for 2021?
This article is about the DWP’s pension policy agenda and my view of what matters to the Pensions Minister and his department. Opperman has shown considerable leadership in recent years and my view is that he is in a strong … Continue reading
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Tagged #pensions, Guy Opperman, Pension Dashboard, Pensions, ppf, Sharon Bowles, standards
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Aegon stung into action by the Bee!
Let your people go! It looks like Aegon has backed down and agreed to treat its customers wishing to transfer to PensionBee, fairly. This report, based on what appears to be a press release from Aegon, suggests that Aegon will … Continue reading
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Tagged Aegon, Margaret Snowden, PASA, PensionBee, pensions, Rom Samova, standards, transfers
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Towards common data standards for auto-enrolment
The Chartered Institute for Payroll and Pension Professionals and their “Friends of AE” stitched me up with writing up the output of a working group comprising a lot of old’uns and a couple of delightful “young’uns”. Here, for the general enlightenment of others and the … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, CIPP, corporate governance, Data, DWP, Financial services, NEST, Payroll, pension, pension playpen, Pension Regulator, pensions, QWPS, standards
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Price isn’t everything
Price isn’t everything but it is where many employer’s heads are today. The trick is to move the argument on from price but this can only be done once we have got bad practice out of the system for all time.