I challenge your enthusiasm on three grounds, Henry. First, does the language of yet another new investment paradigm risk exaggerating…
A Southern friend now tells me his best effort was “Ten Before Ten” starting at 7am in Smithfield market. A…
There is an alternative view of "ownership" which is that people own a stream of income for as long as…
Thank you very much for this comment which I will use in future posts. Whoever you are "anonymous" , I…
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Guided retirement consultation has a glaring hole.
An income for life is not, by itself, a definition of a good retirement outcome.
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Tagged CDC, Employment, FCA, Guided retirement, Income, Johan Kriek, Pensions, Retirement, Retirement Guidance, TPR, VFM
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Is compliance increasing for trustees at the expense of the members?
The inevitable conclusion is that good governance increases with the size of an occupational scheme and the distance the scheme is from the individual member. I wonder if this increasing trust in pensions or not. Continue reading
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Tagged compliance, Corporate Trustees, independent trustees, professional trustee firms, TPR, trustees
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The Pensions Regulator takes on artificial intelligence with its own.
I didn’t think I’d side with the Pensions Regulator on AI but I do. Continue reading
What’s missing from TPR’s message to Trustees to raise their game?
It only needs the Pensions Regulator to make clear what everybody knows, that CDC give valuable pensions, to make everything to fall into place. Continue reading
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Tagged authorisation, Nausicaa Delfas, The Pensions Regulator, TPR, transfers
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Making pensions out of pots looked pretty hard to me and Terry
I’ll remember yesterday for good people trying hard to get to a good way to turn pots to pensions. They should listen to Terry for a simple answer – we don’t really need pots at all. Continue reading
TPR – can we have VFM scores at half time and full time!
We want scores at full time not just half time. Can we have results in a league table so savers can figure out the Value For their Money? Continue reading
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Tagged Emma Douglas, Full time, half-time, pensioners, Pensions, TPR, VFM
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Will CDC challenge DC workplace as the employer’s choice?
I read with great interest the Professional Pensions “Buzz ” results that asked this question and found a different result that I would have expected this time last year! Continue reading
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Tagged annuity, Business, Business and Economy, CDC, DC master trusts, Pensions, R-CDC, Retirement, TPR, workplace Pensions
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Should we have a consultation on whether we have a consultation on small pots?
It must be the last week in August to be a story. We have been consulting about small pots as long as we’ve had workplace pensions and probably longer. There have been no ends of people who have devoted themselves … Continue reading
“VFM framework” should follow horse racing’s Time Form and focus on winners and losers!
It’s the last week in August, so time to drag up the longest running failure to deliver we’ve ever had. Superfunds? Small pot consolidation? Pension Dashboards? VFM assessments? We are not getting good ideas into action. It has not been … Continue reading
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