Monthly Archives: March 2026
Why is WTW’s retirement CDC not getting the thumbs up?
We always need analysis to help us make choices. We are getting a lot from WTW about decumulation CDC and the numbers don’t look anything like 60% better for CDC if you wait to swap your pot for a CDC … Continue reading
Your Pension Needs an Effectiveness Screen using Five Simple Questions
If you’re saving into a workplace pension, you’ll have no idea whether your retirement savings are being managed well or badly. The costs might be reasonable or extortionate. The investment strategy might be serving your interests or someone else’s. Your … Continue reading
Pensions Mutual is looking for trustees for its CDC scheme
We Are Looking for Trustees As we move forward with the establishment of the Pensions Mutual Unconnected Multi-Employer CDC scheme we are looking for trustees to sit on the scheme Board. We are particularly keen to appoint individuals who have … Continue reading
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“Escaping the State We’re In” – Will Hutton
Escaping The State We’re In introduced by Will Snell Chief Executive at Fairness Foundation Reflections from the parliamentary launch last Thursday of Fairness Foundation’s new report, written by Will Hutton Last Thursday, the Fairness Foundation and the Policy Institute at … Continue reading
“Is this Government really interested in Pension Superfunds?” – asks Gupta
New Capital Consensus are a group of thinking people including my friend Ashok Gupta who want to see policy through to action. I’m not quite sure why I and AgeWage are included on this post, but I’m pleased they … Continue reading
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Tagged Ashok Gupta, DB, dc, Insurers, Pensions, superfunds, Torsten Bell
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Civic minded pensioners don’t come cheap; future generations need pensions (even more than houses)
Stephen Bush’s brilliant article was inspired by him sitting in on trials and discovering magistrates in their seventies, he looks at the board of the flats he’s a leaseholder of and he finds grandparent pensioners looking after children so that … Continue reading
We will get VFM when IGCs and Trustees are independent.
This blog argues that advisers have no business interfering in the IGC’s and Trustee’s analysis of VFM. Jonathan Parker: Value for money back under the spotlight I have since their formation in 2015, thought IGCs in the pocket of the … Continue reading
I know I shouldn’t laugh but I did – sympathy for Iranian people
Iran is now releasing cartoons that Trump can understand. 😂🤣👇 pic.twitter.com/8st6rIGH98 — Bill Madden (@maddenifico) March 23, 2026 There is something to laugh about in everything and this cartoon is the way Iranians are finding to laugh about the horror … Continue reading
Higher payroll payments for deferred pay; Webb and Bell should work together
In a recent talk to the Association of Member Nominated Trustees, Steve Webb was savage about the lack of progress in pension policy. Thanks to Callum Conway for this report last week We need the straight talking of Webb on … Continue reading
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Gilts back on the naughty step
Thanks to Katie Martin of the FT for this striking assessment of the state of gilts. Those readers who run schemes primarily invested in gilts will find this interesting as will many readers who watched in horror in October 2022. … Continue reading