Nothing to do with buses
Hello again. You know what they say; platform pricing changes are like buses. You wait ages for one to come along and then! Actually, no-one says that. It’s a rubbish analogy. And the buses around here are pretty good. Anyway. Yes, only a week ago we were digesting the pricing changes made by Ascentric, and […]
Cards on the table: Ascentric goes all-in
It’s been ages since I’ve blogged, mainly as it’s been a while since a provider made a big pricing shift. Most of the activity on that front in recent times has understandably focused on changes to SIPP and drawdown fees following the budget. Quite a number have trimmed charges, with some removing them altogether. Which […]
More pension changes
Catchy title. Just a short update to confirm a couple of, you guessed it, changes to on-platform pensions. Following Fundnetwork’s recent removal of drawdown charges and then changes to the Cofunds Pension Account, next up with the moves are Parmenion and Ascentric. First up, we’ll look at the platform arm of Royal London Mutual. Ascentric, […]
Another blog about retiring
Six months ago or so I wrote a blog about my Dad’s imminent retirement. I’m not egotistical enough to assume you’ve been on the edge of your collective seats waiting on an update (The Deathly Hallows this ain’t) but here it is anyway. Nelson Sr. got off to a disheartening start thanks to some pretty […]
Oh, what a feeling! Aegon dances on the ceiling.
Another day, another price movement. Fresh on the back of the Cofunds SIPP update yesterday, the Dutch massive have entered the fray, announcing revised charging structures on both the ARC platform and One Retirement pension product. From 3 May there is a now a price ceiling at £250k in both cases. We think this is […]
A blog about retiring
Annuities are a hot topic at the moment. So I decided to step away from the recent industry noise and take a closer look at the market for myself. Here’s what I found. First, it’s crass to talk about the annuity market as a whole. Market rates vary so much from client to client that […]
The rich get richer, the poor get the picture – Nucleus does its bit
There have been few things I’ve enjoyed more since joining the lang cat than buffing up our patented Recursive Pricing Engine (with integrated Turing Guessing Module). But it’s been a little quiet on the pricing front, so when I heard that Nucleus had trimmed its charges, I positively sprinted into work[1] to get my claws […]
Impressions of a noob
At the tail end of last week Mark challenged me to write a brief blog summing up what I’ve found out in my first week at the lang cat. Let’s call it 4 and a half days taking into account the robust induction process.[1] Now, my 10 year sentence in the industry thus far has […]
