Category Archives: pensions

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

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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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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

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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

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Ten questions for LCP’s Draper and Taylor that CDC needs answering

Please add to your calendar and click here or post the link  into your diary. It’s at 10.30 am online. (Tuesday 8th September) https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/349110786671465?p=44cRsS3vjiqJGdW8aF It’s back from work and feet under the table and we’re having the first Coffee Morning since … Continue reading

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Steve Webb explores how pensions help with bereavement – how should CDC deal with it?

Steve Webb does not need introduction but the subjects he covers do – and he introduces ideas that may be new to us, no matter how we might like to consider ourselves pension experts! The first part of this blog … Continue reading

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Brilliant Master Trusts face a bleak future from consolidation.

This work by Go Pensions is most important to any employer considering their DC pension now CDC is a workplace pension alternative. We should be very grateful to Go Pensions for putting this information out on social media  It … Continue reading

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