“Turning the amber light green”; – creating a buzz around #auto-enrolment.
Over the past ten days, I’ve been tracking down members of the “pension congregation” prepared to test my “select a pension” tool that will feature on http://www.pensionplaypen.com. In case you aren’t...
View ArticleRos Altmann’s first big political test
The WASPI petition is now in the hands of a small group of parliamentarians who decide whether the petition’s 100,000 signatories have enough of a point to trigger a parliamentary debate. Large as...
View ArticleGetting “generation rent” to save for later.
Matthew Vincent has some fun in the FT at the expense of the chin hairs, the Digital Garages and the “app’ll fix it” culture among pension strategists. You can read the fun here...
View ArticleDoesn’t “integrated risk management” set the bar askew?
The buzz phrase for those involved in DB pension management is “Integrated Risk Management” or IRM – if you want to sound familiar with these things. The phrase is a good one as it focuses trustee’s...
View ArticlePension Wise+Pension Dashboard=?
You’ve probably seen the splurge of advertising for Pensions Wise, as it eases towards a new brand. Odd! Someone’s got a budget to burn! In a couple of months we’ll have a new brand and a whole load...
View ArticleA blueprint for pension consolidation.
Yesterday I was reading the corporate accounts of MoneySupermaket.com. Last year, as well as generating nearly £400m of turnover and making over £100m in profit, MSM were given personal information by...
View ArticleWatch out for the financial tsunami from an ageing population
http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/publications/publication15996_en.pdf This publication is effectively saying “if you thought we had a financial crisis think again- what is coming our way unless we...
View ArticleHMRC – pay up on your pension promises!
I’m a member of the Net Pay Action Group and I’m going to hold this Government to the promise it made in the Conservative Party Manifesto. We have a “pre-cooked” way to stop 1.7m low earners being...
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