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Tag Archives: trust
Can private markets improve DC outcomes? – We must trust our Trustees.
Private market investments are dark horses. We can see they make people rich but so far, those riches have not been shared with people saving for their own retirement. Lee Hollingsworth asks the reasonable question, “why is private equity so … Continue reading
Explore the options for your DB scheme on December 13th.
Endgame, Middlegame or Long Game? I’m interested in the way defined benefit schemes are moving towards self-sufficiency, partly because we need to secure defined benefits for people who have earned a pension from their company and partly because we need … Continue reading
Why is the PLSA laying into Guy Opperman?
What is going wrong? It appears that the PLSA has fallen out with the DWP and the Pensions Minister in particular. Yesterday the PLSA’s Director of Policy publicly criticized the Pension Minister for failing to adopt its proposals on “Guided … Continue reading
“Give us the information and let us get on with it!” – TRUST & CONFIDENCE in 2020 pensions
Transparency is about letting people see the information they want to see, not the information you want them to see. This important distinction is missed by many of the people I talk to as part of my work at AgeWage. … Continue reading
“In pensions we trust” – when our data is trusty!
Yesterday I talked about how we can performance analysis of individual pension pots to sense check the quality of data. The idea is to make sure that once contributions reach the pension provider, they are properly recorded and people can … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, age wage, Treasury, trustee, workplace pensions
Tagged big-data, Centrica, Data, Pensions, Power, Transparency, trust
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Our right to dream of a fairer deal for older people.
It’s been another brutal week in politics. I’m glad that the pensions team in place at the start of it – remain in place at the end of it. I’m pleased that Guy Opperman remains our pensions minister. As my … Continue reading
Posted in age wage, pensions
Tagged AgeWage, CARE, change, ESG, Guy Opperman, NHS, PLSA, Tax, Teresa Coffey, Treasury, trust
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A good day for master trusts
The FT run a scoop this morning, predicting that today the Pensions Regulator will withdraw its proposals to require small DC plans to be run by “professional trustees” and urging that most of the 8000 single occupational trust based DC … Continue reading
Workplace pensions – value for money?
This is the second of eight blogs answering the questions set out in the Work and Pension Select’s inquiry into transparency in pensions. The idea is that this blog, together with comments from anyone who chooses, will go to … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, pensions
Tagged DWP, FCA, IGC, NEST, People's Pension, TPR, trust, workplace Pensions
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Is there a “true and fair” way to value advice?
Yesterday , I wrote a blog about “ownership” and how we cede ownership of our retirement savings – often to ill-effect. You can read that blog here. This follows up on that thinking and looks at a specific issue … Continue reading
Posted in pensions
Tagged Alan and Gina Miller, pension playpen, pensions, True and fair, trust, VFM
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Let’s stop pretending guidance is enough.
News that the Government has thrown out proposals for compulsory guidance to protect us from ourselves comes as no surprise to me , though it has clearly angered Ros Altmann. Writing on her blog, the former Pensions Minister writes of the … Continue reading
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Tagged advice, CDC, Guidance, Pension Freedoms, pensions, trust, trustees, Wage for life
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