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It’s the legacy, stupid!
If we really care about retirement outcomes, we have to think about this stuff and the £20bn of unclaimed (orphaned) pensions that are hanging around in the back cupboards of life companies and occupational pension schemes alike. Continue reading
Posted in annuity, corporate governance, customer service, dc pensions, de-risking, Liability Driven Investment, Martin Lewis, pensions, Treasury
Tagged annuity, corporate governance, corporate risk, customer service, dc pensions, de-risking, Financial services, Hill Samuel, Insurance, Liability Driven Investment, Life annuity, Martin Lewis, moneysavingexpert, pension, Pension Pound, Pension Poverty, pensions, policing, Politics, Scottish Widows, Standard Life, The Pension Regulator, Treasury
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The ACA have spoken – the DWP ought to listen
Let’s hope that instead of issuing yet more consultation documents on the policing of the auto enrolment regulations, the Government will , through its key Departments, DWP and the Treasury, start getting us excited about the prospect of this new order. Otherwise this new pension paradigm will degenerate, as its Stakeholder predecessor degenerated, into a fearful, unloved, unadopted and unenforced mess.
Posted in annuity, corporate governance, customer service, dc pensions, de-risking, pensions, Personal Accounts
Tagged annuity, corporate governance, customer service, dc pensions, de-risking, Employment, Financial services, Government, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, Pension new, pensions, Pensions, Persnal Accounts, Personal Accounts, Politics, Public Sector Pensions, Scheme, Tata Consultancy Services, Treasury
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IFEs not IFAs
If you’ve followed my posts over the past few days, you’ll l know I’ve referred to a debate between advisers, insurers, pension managers and trustees which started out discussing the ethics of incentivizing enhanced transfer values and has moved toi discussing how and when advice … Continue reading
Posted in annuity, corporate governance, dc pensions, de-risking, EU Solvency II, Liability Driven Investment, pensions, Retail Distribution Review, Retirement, Treasury
Tagged annuity, corporate governance, dc pensions, de-risking, Economics, Employment, EU Solvency II, Financial adviser, Frank Field, Human Resources, Independent Financial Adviser, Liability Driven Investment, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, pensions, Peter Flanagan, Politics, Proto-Indo-European language, Retail Distribution Review, Retirement, Treasury, trustee, Trustees
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Who is Christopher Robin?
The act of reading these stories and poems is to step into Christopher Robin’s shoes and embrace a vlue system that has driven the governing class of Britian for two hundred years. You should try it sometime- it really is scary!
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Two and a half cheers for UK pensions
The other man’s grass is always greener or so it would seem if you work in the UK pension industry. Over the years we have got used to a succession of overseas dignitaries visiting our shores, speaking at our conferences and … Continue reading
Posted in mallowstreet, NEST, pension playpen, pensions, redington, Retail Distribution Review, Retirement, Treasury
Tagged Financial Assistance Scheme, Institute of Actuaries, mallowstreet, NEST, New Zealand, pension, Pension new, pension playpen, Pension Poverty, Pension Protection Fund, pensions, Pensions, Politics, Public Sector Pensions, redington, Retail Distribution Review, Retirement, Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts Manufactures & Commerce, Royal Society of the Arts, South Africa, The PEnsion Regulator, Treasury, United States, USA
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Advice where advice is needed
I’ve been reading Aegon’s latest report into Incentives for Saving and the consumer research that backs it up. It makes pretty dismal reading.
Posted in dc pensions, pensions, Retail Distribution Review, Treasury
Tagged Aegon, dc pensions, Financial adviser, Financial services, Life annuity, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, Pension new, Pension Poverty, pensions, Pensions, Politics, Retail Distribution Review, Retirement, Scottish Equitable, The PEnsion Regulator, Treasury
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Happiness and harm
Time will tell whether the Coalition Government has created a credible and sustainable system which allows us to measure and understand “government finances and the structure of the State”.
Posted in dc pensions, NEST, pensions, Retirement, Treasury
Tagged Basic State Pension, David Cameron, dc pensions, Diane Coyle, Economics, Frank Field, John Stuart Mill, NEST, pension, Pension Poverty, pensions, Poverty, public sector, Public Sector Pensions, Retirement, Society, Treasury
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Fake tax for the rich, real cuts for the rest
The Treasury stand accused of faking a £4bn pa tax on 100,000 of the super-rich. George Osborne stands accused of using this fake tax to justify draconian cuts on the wider population.
Posted in pensions
Tagged Cayman Islands, George Osborne, Government, HM Treasury, pension, pensions, spending review, Tax, Treasury
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Hapless man tries to buy a pension
A man walks into a shop, goes to the counter and asks the shopkeeper for a pension
Treasury- stop messing with pensions
If they behave like that with the rich, they can play like that with the poor and with “me” and I’m neither rich nor poor. It’s a matter of credibility – of integrity and of trust Continue reading
Posted in pensions
Tagged Government, Hargreaves Lansdown, Low Income Taxpayers, pension, Pension new, pensions, Tax, Taxation, Tom McPhail, Treasury
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