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Tag Archives: Transparency
Transparency bites the fund industry
From top to bottom of financial intermediation cost disclosure is causing problems. UBS and Goldman Sachs have been fined eye-watering sums for failure to provide the right information for others to disclose to their clients. They are not alone. Those … Continue reading
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The sordid side of nudge.
Go, go, go, said the bird: human kind Cannot bear very much reality. (TS Eliot – four quartets) There is a thin dividing line between nudge and dishonesty. Nudge flirts with transparency but never consummates. We are nudging millions of … Continue reading
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Posted in age wage, pensions
Tagged AgeWage, nudge, pensions, Sordid, Transparency, Truth, TS Eliot
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Pensions “Shock and Awe”
Next week looks like being a big one for Pensions with the Pensions Minister summoning the dasboardistas to Westminster on Monday morning for the big reveal. This meeting is scheduled to last an hour and will mean I will be … Continue reading
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Tagged ABI, Costs and charges, Frank Field, IA, lipkin, meech, pensions, PLSA, Transparency, Work and Pensions
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The Gravy train is still at the station!
This is a post from an asset manager. You cannot comment on the post as Muzinich has turned off the comments facility on Linked in. I am wondering what the “appropriate” response to the post is. Should it be Muzinich … Continue reading
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Sier and Agethangelou kick off Government pension transparency inquiry
Chris Sier (left) and Andy Agethangelou (right) are due to kick off the Work and Pensions Select Committee costs transparency inquiry – giving oral evidence on 5th September. It’s fitting that the two will appear together, Chris Sier did a great … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Agethangelou, chris sier, FCA, Transparency, Transparency Task Force
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Why every hidden cost matters.
Value recognised A lot has been made about the hidden charges of running a fund over the past ten years. Over this time there have been two high profile campaigns to bring them into the open. In the retail space, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan and Gina Miller, chris sier, Emmy Labovitch, internet, novarca, pensions, Technology, Transparency
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“Smiling at delinquents”; how we prevail over fund ignorance and indolence
I had one of those moments just now, when a whole load of things came together and I saw the wood for the trees. My Eureka moment? I was reading an FCA document , the Packaged Retail and Insurance-based Investment Products … Continue reading
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Posted in advice gap, pensions, Pensions Regulator
Tagged AgeWage, DWP, Eureka, FCA, Funds, MifidII, pensions, Priips, Transparency, VFM
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Let’s make “Legacy” a thing of the past.
It’s hard not to feel a twinge of sympathy for Richard Smith. Concur with that. Those working with the 6% don’t. Comments on my document haven’t gone down that well – then again, I wasn’t really expecting it to be … Continue reading
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Tagged Balzac, Frank Field, legacy, pension, Policy, Transparency, WPC
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How important is investment transparency to savers?
This is the 5th of a series of eight blogs addressing the eight questions posed by the WPC. Today’s exam question is How important is investment transparency to savers? A short answer is ” a lot more important than most … Continue reading
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Tagged chris sier, Fidelity, Hargreaves Lansdown, IGC, pensions, Transparency
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Opacity pays! Shock revelation from Pension PlayPen lunch
In a top-secret pension playpen lunch – details of which have been leaked to the Pension Plowman – key industry figures agreed that opacity pays! Despite the WPC call for responses to its transparency paper, the secretive group are understood to … Continue reading
