Category Archives: pension playpen
Pension Dashboard – Richard Smith – 10.30 today – free ticket inside
Richard’s coming to our coffee morning to repeat his triumphal sessions over the past five years. Richard is the genuine item and a friend to Pension PlayPen. He has agreed to attend at short notice and I hope we … Continue reading
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Tagged Dashboard, pension playpen, Pensions, Richard, Richard Smith
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Does CDC work like a DB or a DC pension plan? I don’t care!
Under current proposed timelines, multi-employer CDC schemes are expected to secure regulatory approval in 2026, with a view to accepting contributions from 2027. So we ought to be starting to think about what being in a CDC plan will feel like … Continue reading
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Tagged CDC, DB, dc, Fund, Funds, Pensions
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“Data will be a Game Changer”; Richard Smith
Data is a game changer – it’s changed my view of Lerwick in Shetland. I’d never thought of it in the same “wave” as St Helier in Jersey. Richard’s coming to our coffee morning to repeat his triumphal sessions over … Continue reading
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Tagged Dashboard, pension playpen, Pensions, Richard, Richard Smith
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“Dashboards will be a Game Changer”; Richard Smith – Tuesday
Richard’s coming to our coffee morning to repeat his triumphal sessions over the past five years. Richard is the genuine item and a friend to Pension PlayPen. He has agreed to attend at short notice and I hope we … Continue reading
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Tagged Dashboard, pension playpen, Pensions, Richard, Richard Smith
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PPF confirms general levy for 2025/26 (there isn’t one).
PPF decision saves £45m for UK defined benefit (DB) pension schemes Benefits nearly 5,000 DB schemes and their sponsoring employers Marks significant milestone on PPF’s journey to financial self sufficiency Move supports government’s pension reforms and productive investment goals The … Continue reading
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Tagged Levy, Pensions, ppf, slashed, Torsten Bell, zero
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Steve Webb; IHT and other pension tax changes – 10.30 today.
Click here to join the coffee morning today (9th) at 10.30 am We brought the Pension PlayPen session forward by half an hour last week to allow some people to hear McGrath and Keating on the run on/wind up debate … Continue reading
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Tagged IHT, LCP, pension playpen, Pensions, Steve Webb, Tuesday 10.30
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Sir Steve Webb; IHT Changes & Pensions – a discussion.
We brought the Pension PlayPen session forward by half an hour to allow some people to hear McGrath and Keating on the run on/wind up debate for occupational DB pension plans. Immediately after our pension was LCP’s session on … Continue reading
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Tagged IHT, LCP, pension playpen, Pensions, Steve Webb, Tuesday 10.30
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CDC for those who want more certainty? We call it “shared ambition”.
The move to CDC looks happily inevitable. I hope that by 2030 most people in workplace pensions will have access to a pension and the amount of certainty from their pension will be dependent on fiduciaries (trustees and personal pension … Continue reading
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Tagged AgeWage, Pension Superhave, Pensions, PSH
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Competition will not drive good funded pensions; that’s over.
Waking up to a new pensions world I am sorry to read arguments on social media and in Pension Age lamenting the loss of the competition we have today. The mess of GPPs, single employer DC schemes and the majority … Continue reading
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Tagged David Brooks, Pensions, Steve Webb
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Hymans Robertson debating pension funding this Morning.
First the advert.. Tuesday (today) 10.30 am event ; free ticket at the bottom of the blog. Having made a mistake and locked myself out of the excellent session led by Pensions for Purpose, I’m not going to do it … Continue reading