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Good with food – not so good with money.
The sad events at the Co-operative Bank this year are not the first financial services scandal to hit the Co-operative movements. Less publicised but no less carnal, was the behaviour of the...
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Can we deliver the Guidance Guarantee?
We are all worried about the Guidance Guarantee, the content of what will be delivered and the quality of the delivery. We worry for a variety of reasons but mostly we worry that people will not get...
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Government needs to publish its intentions for CDC
The defined ambition agenda is a vague one. Steve Webb talks about wanting to give people more certainty in retirement. He’s talked about DC heavy (to and through investment strategies) and DB lite-...
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Ros Altmann to be the over 50s
News from the Sunday Times via @paullewismoney reports that Ros Altmann is to be our (eg those over 50) new work tsar. This I take to be good news. Ros Altmann to be named Government's champion for...
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I’ve just been (pension) geeked!
Yesterday, as you probably weren’t aware, was national pension awareness day. I tried to tell you in my Pension Play Pen weekly announcement but did you engage? I thought not September 15th was...
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The Strop Suite – OMG!
We flew overnight to Dubai, missing the GB Entrepreneur Awards, for which Pension Play Pen had been shortlisted. “Dubai is a shit-hole (I want to go home)” Well that’s what I was singing on the bus as...
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Why Martin Bamford is right to stay an independent financial adviser
Martin Bamford SJP – we have been here before Martin Bamford has produced an excellent piece explaining why everyone he knows “loves to hate St James’ Place” . It turns out that quite a few people...
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Con Keating on the Rules of Evidence and The Defined Benefit White Paper.
This post is from Con Keating and first appeared in Portfolio Institutional Alongside its new DB white paper (Protecting Defined Benefit Pension Schemes) the Department of Work and Pensions published...
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Here’s to pensioners enjoying their pensions!
I’m on the Flying Scotsman to York (the Yorkshireman). My carriage is full of pensioners (including me), people thanking their lucky stars they’ve got the chance to ride behind this famous loco and...
View ArticlePension Sharks are free to prey on the vulnerable – (David Byers)
Pension freedoms” sound enticing, don’t they? Introduced in 2015, they give you the chance to liberate that sluggish old pot — often worth hundreds of thousands of pounds — and reinvest it with...
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