Category: Drawdown
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The first WFFI session
Adequacy, Annuities, Automatic enrolment, Behavioural economics, Benefits, Carers, Consolidation, Contributions, Dashboards, Decumulation, Defined Benefit, Defined Contribution, Disability, Drawdown, Early access, Engagement, Ethnicity, Financial inclusion, Guidance/advice, Housing, Inflation, Investment, Pension freedoms, Pensions gap, Poverty, Retirement, WomenI ran the first Women’s Financial Future Initiative session today, over the lunch hour, with fifteen women at Bravura Solutions. The Initiative exists because the pension system already contains protections for the things that shape a lot of women’s working lives, such as time out for caring, part time hours and relationship change. I don’t…
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The FCA is proposing to replace the existing pension projections framework for interactive digital tools, which was designed for static illustrations, with a new regime intended to support more flexible and personalised modelling. The aim is to allow providers to reflect different contribution patterns, retirement ages and ways of taking income, rather than presenting a…
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In this interview, I talk to the inspirational Janette Weir of Ignition House about the work that companies are doing on flex first/fix later products to meet the Government’s upcoming requirements for schemes to offer default retirement income products. You can read her report (sponsored by Aviva/Age UK) for more info. PG: When did the…