Mental health awareness is for life, not just for #WorldMentalHealthDay
Regular visitors to the lang cat will know that we are keen to encourage people to talk about mental health. Many would agree that working in financial services can be stressful. The competitive environment and performance expectations can lead to long hours, poor work life balance and a “work hard / play hard” culture. Confessing […]
Pension transparency FTW
Nothing to do with platforms for a change… We were heartened – heartened I say – by the news today that investment providers to pension schemes will be forced to disclose all charges; not just the highly dubious headline Annual Management Charge (AMC). For those unaware, investment funds incur a load of costs over and […]
Pension transparency FTW
Nothing to do with platforms for a change… We were heartened – heartened I say – by the news today that investment providers to pension schemes will be forced to disclose all charges; not just the highly dubious headline Annual Management Charge (AMC). For those unaware, investment funds incur a load of costs over and […]
The tedium of going o’er
The news yesterday that Aviva has stopped its workplace savings platform programme (read the story here and here) is interesting in lots of ways. Now, before the yellow and blue dudes reading this start reaching for the batphone to the legal heavies, I should mention that I’ve worked on the Aviva workplace savings programme on […]
