Tag Archives: UK State Pension
Ten sexy stats that drive pension firms wild!
But if you think your workforce special, you’ll want to get a whole of market quote. You wouldn’t insure your business assets or your liabilities any other way. Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, auto-enrolment, dc pensions, happiness, pensions
Tagged Aviva, BlackRock, Friends Life, Insurance, pension, Scottish Widows, Standard Life, UK State Pension
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So what’s new in pension reform?
This is a round-up of the current issues buzzing around pensions; we’ll be producing plenty of these bulletins from http://www.pensionplaypen.com so do sign up to its email to get them. Auto-enrolment is underway; but even as staging commences, new pension … Continue reading
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Tagged Consultant, George Osborne, Government, Gregg McClymont, pension, Sherlock Holmes, Speech from the throne, UK State Pension
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“Cynicism’s” trending on #pensions
I’m cynical about cynics – but in a nice way Continue reading
Better-buying makes auto-enrolment work
The promise of “Wealth at work” has disguised the paucity of the pension outcomes when work finishes. Continue reading
Posted in auto-enrolment, corporate governance, dc pensions, First Actuarial, Henry Tapper blog, pensions, steve webb, target date funds
Tagged Insurance, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, Pension Regulator, Self-invested personal pension, SHPS, Small and medium enterprises, UK State Pension
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This is no country for old women
I haven’t been a great fan of academic pensions research or researchers for that matter. The research is typically a big whinge about people not getting a fair deal, the researchers comfortably cocooned in university sponsored sinecures or pensions. So I … Continue reading
Posted in actuaries, annuity, pensions
Tagged annuity, Basic State Pension, Business, dc pensions, Directive (European Union), Employment, Greece, Noel Whiteside, pension, Politics, Public Sector Pensions, Retirement, Royal Statistical Society, social media, Society, UK State Pension, University of Warwick
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Seven things to know about the new state pension!
These charts have been kindly donated by Citywire and their New Model Adviser team (to whom we should be very grateful). Each one of them surprised me. I dedicate this little blog to one of my heroes, Barbara Castle. If we … Continue reading
Posted in auto-enrolment, club pension, NEST, pension playpen, pensions, Retirement, steve webb
Tagged Flat rate, Government, National Insurance, pension, Pension Credit, Steve Webb, UK State Pension, White paper
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Can Britain afford Proper Pensions? Play Pen Lunch 01/10/12
The discussion focussed on the question “can Britain afford proper pensions” which broke into three questions. 1 What makes a pension proper? 2. What is the true price of funding for pensions? 3. What are the consequences of not pre-funding … Continue reading
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Tagged Britain, David Cameron, David Pitt-Watson, Employment, Funds, Government, pension, UK State Pension
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Steve Webb’s good week
Now anyone who can talk of a “regulatory regime which allows 1000 flowers to bloom” has got to have been taking the happy pills. Continue reading
Posted in annuity, auto-enrolment, dc pensions, defined aspiration, Liberal Democrats, Management, NEST, pension playpen, pensions, Popcorn Pensions, Treasury
Tagged Defined benefit pension plan, Department for Work and Pensions, DWP, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, Pensions Management Institute, Ros Altmann, Steve, Steve Webb, Tesco, UK State Pension, Webb
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