Monthly Archives: January 2018

Employers be warned; your workplace pension responsibilities are wider than you think!

    When I read this social media add from the Pensions Regulator I half thought tPR were encouraging employers to engage with their pension. No such luck – the pages behind the link explain the employer duties and responsibilities … Continue reading

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Judgement, Discretion, Risk and Predictability in CDC Pensions – Con Keating

People reading this blog often finding themselves reading this blog   In my vision of CDC pensions, there are numerous mechanisms for limiting the risk exposure and increasing the predictability of pension incomes. There are in fact far more than … Continue reading

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CDC – the nuclear fission of the pension system.

  The way we safeguard our pensions today This blog looks at the different way people are protected from mischief depending on what type of retirement savings plan they are in. I’m thinking about this because I have various meetings … Continue reading

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Has the hardest nastiest problem in finance just got a little easier?

I enjoyed reading this serious and sensible argument by Steven Lowe of “Just”.  I suspect that most financial advisers reading it will conclude, as I do, that planning an income for the final years of someone’s life is so fraught that (if … Continue reading

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