Category Archives: Retirement
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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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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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
Hymans Robertson debating pension funding this Tuesday.
First the advert.. Tuesday 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 twice! … Continue reading
A formal response to the FCA’s Value For Money Framework.
CP24/16: The Value for Money Framework This response comes from AgeWage , Pension PlayPen and Pension SuperHaven. Collectively we are looking for members to get better outcomes through bigger pots and better pensions. It is also my personal response. … Continue reading
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Tagged AgeWage, FCA, pension playpen, Pitch
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CPI, RPI and CPIH – get up to speed pension people!
I first published this blog in May 2017. Since then the Treasury has been consulting on the RPI/CPI/CPIH issues identified by the Royal Statistical Society. The result of that consultation is due anytime (most likely Wednesday 25th November). The … Continue reading
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Tagged CPI, CPIH, Mike Harrison, Pensions, Royal Statistical Society, RPI
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“Gonna break out of the City” – and retire to a very cheap house in the country
No song was more thrilling to me as a 15 year old than Eddie and the Hot Rods “do anything you wanna do!”. Its opening line is quoted in the title of this blog and you can hear Eddie … Continue reading
An alternative to the dystopia of “pension de-risking”
One interesting thing about this episode is that we have seen the Pension Regulator’s preferred view ahead of the final legislation itself. Their usual defense of ”It’s the law that Parliament decided, and we are only implementing … Continue reading
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