Tag Archives: accumulation

“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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Do we still consider defaulting to “cash-out” or “annuity-purchase” VFM?

Me and John Greenwood think alike – that  the definition of their value for money is the return they get on their DC pot. In an article last week he asked why some DC pension schemes are still defaulting members … Continue reading

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CDC and “designer’s folly” – Stefan Lundbergh

  Collective DC, and other whole of life solutions, look great on paper but they are also a perpetual source of debate. When it comes to pension design, I have identified two common practices which, in my opinion, could be labelled … Continue reading

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Confusing intermediaries

Whether we are talking about saving (accumulation) or spending (decumulation) the issue is the same. Continue reading

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