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The Norwegians show a financial strategy other European funds may follow.
It’s good to see the name of one of “ours”, the pension reporter Calum Kapoor writing in the FT. Is this a first? I hope it is not the last, this is an excellent scoop and in company of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Bonds, Calum Kapoor, ft, Mortgages, Norway, Oil, politics, Treasuries, US Treasury
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Private markets work properly for DC schemes with scale; -they’re not for most retail investors.
Thank goodness for Nest’s Liz Fernando.She has offered an explanation of why private capital works better with scale. This was not the message of a “summit” of private capital big-wigs (reported below by the intrepid Corporate Adviser reporter Christopher Marchant). … Continue reading
Hatcher’s heartache is turned to pension paradise by suave Steve Webb.
Steve Webb and Alison Hatchett, that’s a celebrity combination that could get tongues a wiggling. But not on this blog! Watch “Trustee Voice: could pension pots help solve the housing crisis” on #Vimeo https://t.co/2Ia0DdFT1g — Henry Tapper (@henryhtapper) September 9, 2026 … Continue reading
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American “DB Pension Plan Baloney”! An American reminds us how lucky we Brits have been.
This is a comment on my blog be our American correspondent “Benefit Jack”. He is responding to an article first published in the Wall Street Journal explaining how United States pensions are becoming more popular. But American pensions are not … Continue reading
CDC, a mutual plan for those in retirement and those working to retire.
Johan Kriek makes some excellent points in this sophisticated post There is a resilience needed if you are to invest the funds paid over in contributions and transfers as an inflation linked pension. There will be times when the fund … Continue reading
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Tagged CDC, Collective Pensions, de-risk, Johan Kriek, Pensions, with-profits
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Is R-CDC dead before it is even born? Johan Kriek
This is a telling post . It chimes with much that I have written. Retirement CDC is a good patch to a broken model. Why wait for what you can get better today? A note on players mentioned in this … Continue reading
The VFM 2, LCP partners and Brian Henderson;- 3 visions for retirement! The 4th’s from employers and unions – to come!
Having been fairly stuck in driving forwards a pension solution (a collective pension) for the past few weeks, I took an afternoon with the foot off the accelerator peddle to consider three discussions of the state of pension. The first … Continue reading
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“The Pension Value Chain” – what do we want in retirement from our money?
Brian Henderson has provided some interesting reading in August and now in September he wraps it up with a Pension Value Chain. So now for Brian Henderson’s Pension Value Chain to work out what we want
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The LCP CDC Video; brought to you by Pension PlayPen at coffee time
This was quite an occasion with 40 coffee goers at the Pension PlayPen coffee morning. Among the audience I noted employers looking for purchasing tips, consultants looking for employers to advise, civil servants wrapped in delivering the next version … Continue reading
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Collective Pensions are returning in the US too – and for the same reason as the UK.
I was passed this article by a friend who has a predilection for pensions (as I do). The Americans have yet to discover the CDC variant as their “pension” has the guarantees of what we call “defined benefit. But the … Continue reading