Tag Archives: Target Pensions
This market failure’s not about advice but product.
The FCA paper on structural problems with the pension freedoms that I wrote about yesterday, is the first evidence of Government admitting all in this garden is not rosy. What has happened since 2015 is an increase in people hammering … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, CDC, pensions
Tagged advice, annuity, CDC, Drawdown, financial advice, Target Pensions, wealth management, wealth manager
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Where does all the money go?
Ok guy – have a look at this picture. It’s a very odd way of looking at money (especially the cash benefits – which for most will be the various family, disability and general living allowances). But it makes its … Continue reading
Posted in #WASPI, auto-enrolment, pensions
Tagged CDC, DA, Defined Ambition, Ros Altmann, state pension, Target Pensions, WASPI, workplace Pensions
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Let’s not get caught with our trousers down (again).
The reason we have NEST and its £400m debt to the tax-payer is that the private sector refused to commit to supporting auto-enrolment ten years ago. If the organisations like Legal & General, Standard Life and Aviva , could have … Continue reading
Posted in annuity, CDC, Pensions Regulator
Tagged ABI, Actuarial science, annuity, auto enrolment, Business, CDC, collective drawdown, dc pensions, decumulation, Drawdown, Employment, Financial services, financial services industry, Government, IA, Mick Mcateer, NAPF, National Employment Savings Trust, NEST, Pension new, pension playpen, pensions, Retirement, Steve Webb, Target Pensions
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Do you have to be demented to buy an annuity?
This tweet is not the first time I’ve heard this argument Interesting question about pension freedoms and dementia at #micuk – do annuities offer better protection to sufferers? @rosaltmann — Nick Britton (@NickBritton_) May 13, 2015 I heard it several … Continue reading
Aren’t pensions worth a mention in this election?
Why has there been so little comment this election campaign on pensions? When the rabbit came out of the hat in #Budget2014, many thought the freedom of pensions was the Conservatives great “retail offer”. Has Steve Webb diluted its political … Continue reading
Am I being unfairly targeted?
It was all going so well. We’d had a great day working and a great night playing and we’d made it back to chalet 147 at Center parks and were tucked up in bed. But one of our company us was … Continue reading