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As the world marks Equal Pay Day today, Aegon’s head of pensions Kate Smith says women are being hit by a double whammy on pensions and pay.
If you are quiet you will hear the whoosh of kites being flown! It is that time of the year – with the Autumn Statement on the horizon, everyone wants their ideas to be considered. Some of those kites are a new age-related bonus system, a call for a ‘pensions bonfire’ (to get rid of complexity), and various suggestions of periods of no change and independent pension commissions.
Six more providers have signed up for the Pensions Dashboard initiative which will aim to give consumers a central point to monitor all their pension arrangements.
Bristol-based Hargreaves Lansdown has called for mandatory annuity rate transparency and says the ABI should reinstate ‘annuity window’ rate tracking.
Mortgage market rules should be used as a blueprint for banning pensions cold-calling, a pensions firm has proposed.
The State Pension is not fit for purpose and should be replaced with a Workplace ISA and a new residency-based Senior Citizens’ Pension, a think tank says.
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