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Tag Archives: TTF
“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
Ever wondered where those “pension leads” come from?
Many financial advisers buy “pension leads”. These are hot prospects keen to take action to change their financial circumstances. Many of these leads are legitimately sourced, but many aren’t. If you spend time on Linked in or Twitter or Facebook, … Continue reading
Fund cost disclosure, arrived on Friday – and it’s here to stay. L&G IGC report- 2017
We are now well in to the IGC reporting season, where Independent Governance Committees tell us how well the insurers they oversee are behaving. I had had low expectations going into this round, 11 of the key insurers had spent … Continue reading
“Bill it to the fund”- why the TTF calls for full disclosure.
(Brief)case study I didn’t quite know what the smart gentleman meant when he offered me a drink in a first class carriage coming down from Manchester. “It’s ok – we’re billing to the fund”. Then it dawned on me, the … Continue reading
Value for money – we have won a battle not a war.
The FCA Consultation Paper CP16/30″Transaction cost disclosure in workplace pensions” is a very good piece of work and allows IGCs and Trustees to know what their members are paying to have their pension pots managed. It unlocks one of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Carpe Diem, Conference, Conservative, CP16/30, Technology, Theresa May, Transparency, TTF
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Double Bill; dashboard+transparency
You wait a summer for the pension policy bus and then two come together! This morning’s the Treasury big reveal when they’ll be rolling out plans for the pension dashboard at Aviva’s Digital Garage in “trending Hoxton”. This afternoon’s the world’s … Continue reading
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Tagged agenda, Andy Agethangelou, Dashboard, digital, Events, Financial services, pension, Pension new, pension playpen, pensions, Retirement, Tom, trasparency, TTF
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PENSIONS TRANSPARENCY REACHES PARLIAMENT
Lux in tenebris The roof leaks, the walls are crumbling but the House of Commons is still the seat of British Government. Andy Agethangelou has used the momentum he and his team have built up to set up a Transparency … Continue reading
Posted in Bankers, Candy Crunch, pensions
Tagged AMNT, Andy Agethangelou, chris sier, CIPP, pension, pension playpen, pensions, Tom Turgendhaut, Transparency, Transparency Task Force, TTF
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Con Keating on the Investment Association, Transparency and the Overton Window
Regular readers will be aware of my views on independent oversight of fund costs and charges. To me it’s critical to a reliable measure for Value for Money; without knowing we are getting value for money, how can we have … Continue reading
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Tagged Con Keating, costs, Costs and charges, Overton window, pension, pensions, Prison, reputation, Transparency, Transparency Task Force, TTF
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Governance rides a horse called transparency!
My day today is dominated by meetings about governance. I’ll be meeting organisations who want to provide benchmarks for governance, an organisation charged with overseeing the pension pots of millions of us and a regulator who kicked off the shift … Continue reading
Posted in governance, pensions
Tagged Business, Employment, Financial services, governance, pension, pensions, Retirement, Transparency, trasnparency taskforce, TTF
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Chris Hitchen’s plea to the FCA on transparency.
It’s good that the PLSA have published the speeches at its investment conference on youtube. Here is a debate started by a speech from Tracey McDermott of the FCA that generates some really useful discussion on “where the market is … Continue reading
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Tagged charges, costs, Costs and charges, Liquidity, PLSA, RPMI, Transparency, Transparency Task Force, TTF
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