Why We Need Personal Accounts

Human Events;  February 7, 2005 ;     700+ words ......small amount. That is why we need personal accounts, so workers can get a better deal...Republicans approach Social security and personal accounts with this positive, populist message...focused, positive, populist message on personal accounts from the President in the State of...

IFA counsel crucial to personal accounts success, gov't warned.

Financial Adviser;  April 5, 2007 ;     438 words ......IFAs alongside its introduction of personal accounts, a parliamentary committee has recommended...Commons Work and Pensions committee on personal accounts made a number of recommendations...to the government's White Paper on personal accounts, published in December. The committee...

News: Personal accounts to cost taxpayer billions.

Pensions Week;  February 12, 2007 ;     454 words ......ground, according to pension experts. Personal accounts are facing a similar financial crisis...set up a delivery authority to run personal accounts, with administration, computer systems...been considered. Boulding calculated personal accounts would cost GBP1.7bn in their first...

Active management in personal accounts vital.

Investment Adviser;  December 18, 2006 ;     460 words ......Industry feels successful delivery of personal accounts depends on active management personal accounts Hopes are high among investment houses...on the cards for the government's personal accounts, previously known as the National...

News: Myners calms critics of personal accounts.

Pensions Week;  October 22, 2007 ;     349 words ......David Ricketts The chairman of the Personal Accounts Delivery Authority (PADA) used a...outline his vision for the delivery of personal accounts, while seeking to allay concerns...in August, said he was confident personal accounts would complement rather than compete...

Lower enrolment age to personal accounts, gov't urged by Aegon.(Brief...

Financial Adviser;  March 8, 2007 ;     299 words ......maximum default auto-enrolment age for personal accounts should be about 50, rather than the...concerns about the potential effects of personal accounts on mean-tested benefits. Concern...savers. Pensioners who have savings in personal accounts will have their means-tested benefits...

Personal accounts will be next big pensions scandal Means-tested benefits...

The Scotsman;  December 16, 2006 ;     589 words ......paper that set out details of the new personal accounts due to become law in 2012. But there...in light of the fact that the new personal accounts scheme does not take effect until...market deciding to opt out of the personal accounts. State benefits means-tests, which...

News: Personal accounts pressure rises for UK's smaller firms.

Pensions Week;  May 28, 2007 ;     268 words ......administrative costs from the proposed personal accounts, the British Chamber of Commerce...implications for smaller firms running personal accounts. Smaller firms are facing the most...most acute pressure on costs, is how personal accounts are going to be managed. he added...

We Need Personal Accounts

The Washington Post;  February 4, 2002 ;     275 words ......Security has established that if personal accounts are incorporated into Social Security...system could pay in the absence of personal accounts. Unfortunately, some of the material...figures, provided by opponents of personal accounts, purporting to show that personal...

Personal accounts under fire.

Money Management;  April 1, 2007 ;     316 words ......criticised ASPECTS OF DECEMBER'S personal accounts White Paper have been criticised...cap on combined contributions for personal accounts should be scrapped, MPs were told...disincentive for employers looking to use personal accounts as a replacement for existing schemes...

First steps on the road to harmony.(Uk draws plans for personal accounts...

Financial Adviser;  December 21, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Byline: Plans for personal accounts and the delivery authority...which provides the detail for personal accounts, has been published. It comes...laying the foundations on which personal accounts will be built. The plans have...

News: Gaps in personal accounts advice will hit the over 50s.

Pensions Week;  April 23, 2007 ;     425 words ......the hardest hit by advice gaps on personal accounts if they enrol into the proposed scheme...the main concerns is the risk that personal accounts may not be suitable for all. There...service was in place. Cleal said: If personal accounts aren't suitable for everyone it doesn...

Publication Of Research Into Charging Structures For Personal Accounts.

M2 Presswire;  March 4, 2008 ;     495 words ......Research Into Charging Structures For Personal Accounts(C)1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:04032008 The personal accounts delivery authority has published a research report, Building personal accounts: Attitudes and reactions to possible...

News: Personal accounts protection loss.

Pensions Week;  June 23, 2008 ;     202 words ...Byline: Tom Willetts Personal accounts could trigger penal tax charges...that auto-enrolment into personal accounts will invalidate individuals...new pension scheme, such as personal accounts, they would lose enhanced...

Standard Life warns taxpayers may face personal accounts bill.

Financial Adviser;  January 18, 2007 ;     295 words ......taxpayer could end up subsidising personal accounts, as has happened with schemes in...government has said that a system of personal accounts could be run on an annual management...would be unwilling participants in personal accounts and would have no interest in ensuring...