Blogs
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What does the pension contribution change mean for me?
05/04/2019
‘Automatic enrolment’ into workplace pensions was introduced in 2012 as a revolutionary way of helping people to save more for their retirement without having to lift a finger. So far, it has lived up to expectations and more than 9 million of us have automatically started putting little bits of our salary into a pension scheme each month.
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Guest Blog: The Dormant Assets Scheme: re-uniting customers with lost money
04/04/2019
Since 2011 the Dormant Assets Scheme has distributed £600 million from unused bank and building society accounts to benefit the most vulnerable people in society.
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The long read: Risks and Benefits of Pensions Dashboards
21/03/2019
A great deal has been written about Pensions Dashboards since DWP published their feasibility study in December last year. Much of this coverage has focussed on perceived risks that could be created and on the multiple dashboards model proposed by the department
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Managing longevity & investment risk in an uncertain world
18/02/2019
There's only one overarching risk in pensions: not having enough money to meet your needs later in life. Underneath that, there are several uncertainties, like how much money you will need, how…
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Pensions Dashboards: Three final steps to guarantee their successful future
06/02/2019
A remarkable level of consensus has emerged around pensions dashboards, with industry, Government and consumer groups all in agreement about the value of giving people easy access to information…
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Open Sesame: Unlocking the truth about the pensions dashboard
18/09/2018
Last weekend was Pension Awareness Day and we’ve just launched our own campaign to encourage younger workers to Love Your Pension.
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Why we’ve got pets talking pensions…
14/09/2018
This week, the ABI launched a campaign urging younger workers to appreciate their pensions. Not by telling them about the compound interest they can look forward to, nor by warning them of dire…
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Ensuring an effective route to Master Trust supervision
31/08/2018
The pensions and savings reforms introduced in the past decade have proven a good step forward to increasing pensions savings. The number of employees with an active workplace pension has risen from…
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A bad week for pension scammers - now what's next?
17/08/2018
The launch of a pension scams awareness campaign and the deadline of a long-awaited consultation on pensions cold calling has made this a week of progress in the…
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The last mile is always the hardest: delivering the pensions dashboard
19/07/2018
When implementing any form of digital infrastructure, the last mile that takes the product to the consumer is always the most difficult. This is true for internet provision, electricity and phone…