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Pension incentives – a foundation for change.
Looking for some help on this one. I appreciate it could be both but if it’s a binary choice, which one do you go for? Thanks Is pension tax relief meant to be… — Tom McPhail (@PensionsMonkey) February 3, 2020 … Continue reading
Tom McPhail – “the Thunderer’s thunderer” #pensions #tax #relief
Sir, The government should abandon its attempts to find a quick fix to the pension allowance taper problem affecting high earners including doctors and judges (“Pension tax windfall for top earners”, Jan 16, and letter, Jan 17). The pension tax … Continue reading
“Are people that dumb?” Compulsion and dashboards.
The FT are running a story about the “pensions industry” regrouping around Plan B and doing their own dashboard. There is indeed a conference in September about this and I’d urge you to go (I hope to contribute). There is … Continue reading
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Tagged ABI, DWP, Pension Dashboard, pensions, September, Tom McPhail, Tom Selby, TPR
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Hargreaves Lansdown’s IGC as pretty and effective as a chocolate teapot!
In 2015, David Grimes and the Hargreaves Lansdown IGC, delivered what remains the worst IGC report I have ever reviewed. Things improved considerably in 2016 but the IGC has not kicked on and I find the 2017 report … Continue reading
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Tagged Harvreaves Lansdown, IGC, pensions, Research, SIPP, Tom McPhail
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“Is it worth planning when the future’s so uncertain?”
Today is NEST Insight day; it’s also TTF symposium day. So I’ll be cycling from the City to the South Bank like Mark Cavendish (pre-crash). At the TTF event, Beccy Young and Robert Finer will be presenting the FCA Asset Management Market Study … Continue reading
Hargreaves versus the “vanilla solution”.
I was amused when opening Linked in this morning to find a pension leads salesman offering “clients who had got compensated for fault SIPP investment and were looking to adviser to provide them with a “vanilla solution”. Just what … Continue reading
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Tagged Hargeaves lansdown, Tom McPhail, Vanguard, vanilla, vanilla solution
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“Vantage is value” – but relative to what? Hargreaves Lansdown’s IGC report
I’m pleased that after a really poor first IGC report, the Hargreaves Lansdown IGC have taken producing their 2017 report, more seriously. A smooth operator If there was such a thing as a premium workplace pension, the Hargreaves Lansdown (HL) … Continue reading
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Tagged corporate vantage, Hargreaves Lansdown, IGC, pension, pensions, Technology, Tom McPhail, Value for Money
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Why it should always be cheapest to buy pension from the state
Much as I like Tom McPhail, his current campaign against the Government for selling rights to the state pension cheaper than rights to private pensions is fatuous. Tom has it in his head that the Government Actuary is setting the … Continue reading
Help is on its way.
For Britain’s flummoxed pensioners- help is on its way! Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, Pension Freedoms, pension playpen, pensions, Popcorn Pensions
Tagged annuity, auto enrolment, CDC, Drawdown, DWP, ITV, Katie Morley, Pension new, pension playpen, Pension Revolution, pensions, Retirement, Ros Altmann, Scam, Tom McPhail
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The fine line between “patronising” and “paternal”.
Last week Tom Mcphail (Hargreaves Lansdown) had a go at Teresa Fritz (financial Services Consumer Council and MAS) about the need for advice. You’d expect the two to clash, FSCS and MAS are not much loved by advisers who see it as an incompetent … Continue reading
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Tagged advice, Business, CDC, corporate governance, dc pensions, Employment, Financial services, first actuarial, Hargreaves Lansdown, National Employment Savings Trust, nutmeg, pension, Pension new, Pension Play Pen, pension playpen, Retirement, Teresa Fritz, Tom McPhail
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