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The pension industry will leave it till 2029 , hoping CDC fails

In focus: Green light for retirement-only CDC Minister for pensions Torsten Bell says: “Too often people approaching retirement are left navigating complex choices and shoulder risks they shouldn’t have to face alone. By expanding CDC to more employers and consulting … Continue reading

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Pensions at a policy crossroads?

Headlines like this are a bit shouty and the event I went to yesterday afternoon was not shouty at all. In fact it was very good. A privilege and a thankyou I am not a client of “Hogan Lovells” and … Continue reading

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Good work – Pensions UK- if small pots can be sorted by the decade’s end.

Pensions UK, you are doing the work that is needed, bringing together experts to get this done to a timetable. I have written the blog so you can stop with Zoe Alexander’s news item, or follow with Matthew Williams or … Continue reading

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A blog from 2016 – which is as relevant to Nest today as it was 9 years ago

This is a re blog of an account of Nest at one of the first PLSA (rather than NAPF) conferences. If you weren’t in Liverpool for last week’s PLSA conference, do not slit your wrists. You can watch the sessions … Continue reading

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Benefits are one thing, pensions are quite another.

Mark Pemberthy is a benefits guy, has been for decades and he’s one of the auto-enrolment guys who in has been an LBG financial adviser and since auto-enrolment got done has got into communicating benefits for clients who can afford … Continue reading

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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

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Can the LGPS please set out its funding position to ordinary tax-payers.

There is a row in Birmingham between some professors and the executive of Birmingham and it has been a matter for the Birmingham Post. I wrote about it earlier in the year and was sent the paper (which being in … Continue reading

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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

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Muppetry is on its way out, pensions are on their way back!

I remember going north on a train  and explaining to a jolly lady that I had the job of stopping people becoming pension muppets. The following day she was there at the conference explaining to the crowd that she’d met … Continue reading

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DC VFM = the value of pension for the money saved.

I think the scale program instigated by Government to get DC plans “valuable” is the wrong measure.  I’d like to say why. Government can achieve its aim of VFM for DC schemes better. Government needs to start thinking of VFM … Continue reading

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