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We Need Breakthrough Business Models, not Breakthrough Technology
I found this article on Linked In. You can find the original here. It makes a lot of sense – not just of why we get bubbles, but how- succesful businesses can be created out of the vacuum when a … Continue reading
Posted in pensions, Technology
Tagged AgeWage, FinTech, pension playpen, pensions, Technology
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The price of being sick in the head
“Sick in the head”? The phrase doesn’t quite work for Tina – a 38 year old Mum who suffered from post-natal depression and then found her life and critical illness insurances 30% more expensive than if she hadn’t declared … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, annuity, pensions
Tagged comparison websites, declare, depression, impaired life, Insurance, mental illness, Technology, Tina
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Auto-enrolled through L&G/Ease – read this.
This blog is written for employers and advisers who have used or assisted with the ITM eAsE link to L&G’s workplace savings Plan. You are where you are – here is some context and some thoughts on your position] For … Continue reading
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Tagged auto enrolment, Ease, ITM, L&G, LGIM, pensions, Technology, workplace pension
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“GMP equalisation” – will the geeks inherit the earth?
Few pension experts expect GMP equalisation to change people’s lives. The Daily Express’ headline “Millions of women to share pension windfall” is plain wrong. GMP equalisation can benefit men as well as women. The Express, reckon 8,000 out of 235,000 … Continue reading
Posted in actuaries, pensions
Tagged admin, administrators, Pension Geeks, pensions, Technology
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Young people thinking about money
I’ve been asked to pontificate on how we should make pensions relevant for the young, in 750 words. My audience won’t be young and nor am I. In every sense of the word, this is a paternalistic project. If I’m … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, age wage, pensions
Tagged AgeWage, Iona Bain, Money, pensions, Technology, Young money
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The conflicts of interest facing pension trustees
Robin Powell of the Evidenced Based Investor, interviewed me this week. You can find the original interview here, Robin’s work is important, I hope a few readers will come to his seminar- advertised at the bottom of this piece. … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, pensions
Tagged #TEBI, fund management, Pension fund, Robin Powell, Technology, trackers, trustees
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“Pentech” needs to lead or the dashboard won’t work
The dichotomy between old and new skool pensions has rarely been so well displayed as at Wednesday’s Pension Dashboard Summit Enterprise v Start -up Consumer led v business case Big Government v entrepreneurs ABI v open banking Saving v Spending Prospective v … Continue reading
Millennials! stand up for your future.
There weren’t many people at the Pension Management Institute’s event last night But it was an important meeting nonetheless There is a little group of pension professionals under the age of 40 who could grow. They want to have a … Continue reading
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Tagged internet, Iona Bain, Millenial Hall of Fame, Millenials, NextGen, pensions, Technology, WordPress
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Auto-enrolment; a national exercise in trust.
I like to tease Jo Cumbo that she can trust no-one because of her heritage! This blatantly xenophobic comment is based on a British prejudice that Australians find compulsion acceptable as compliance is in the blood. A second prejudice, that … Continue reading
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Tagged AE, auto enrolment, compliance, pensions, Technology, workplace
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Our pen-tech free pension picnic!
“It is one thing for a company to know my vacation shopping patterns or what media I like; it is another for them to access my entire financial history, including my investments” So Rana Foroohar wraps up an … Continue reading
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Tagged FinTech, ft, Gregg, pensions, Pentech, Technology
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