Extending time horizons can ease short-term funding pressure, but it shifts risk toward younger members. Reform should make those intergenerational…
I've just come across this letter from Smithers, covering DB pensions in general and the USS in particular. https://smithers.co.uk/extending-the-liabilities-time-horizon-is-key-to-pensions-reform/
Great. A chance to nit-pick something from Steve Webb. The Married Woman’s Option finished in 1977, not 1978. SERPS was…
I was told by the Pensions Service, that if I divorced my husband before I retired, I would get a…
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BlackRock publish their Case for CDC
I stuffed a thick brochure into my rucksack. It claimed to be the Case for CDC at the PensionsAge show yesterday. I’d just seen Sophie Dapin and Christian Hyldahl explaining Europe’s commitment to collection. This week the Pension Commission has … Continue reading
PensionsAge offered a day discussing CDC collective pensions
I came away from the Waldorf in the Aldwych and walked over the Thames to Waterloo, my head full of what I’d heard and engaged with at the PensionsAge Autumn Conference. Session after session featured a discussion of CDC. This … Continue reading
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CDC needs behemoths like BlackRock and it needs “challengers” like Pensions Mutual to provide “collective pensions”
I am a great admirer of BlackRock as a proponent of collective pensions or “CDC”. Here is Sophie Dapin with a fresh view on what can be done. We have Royal Mail and will soon have a collective pension for … Continue reading
Why are BlackRock so big on CDC?
I am surprised and pleased by the amount of effort BlackRock is putting into promoting CDC. They have the first CDC mandate for investment as they are outsourced CIO of Royal Mail. Ben Rees is Head of DC and fulfills … Continue reading
Where does BlackRock think CDC is going?.
The Pension PlayPen coffee morning yesterday (23rd June) was a Q&A with Massi Delle Donne and Marita Volmane. As you can see from the above, it was a lively affair from a group determined to get to the bottom of … Continue reading
LCP promotes maximising pensions over wealth in CDC’s investment strategy
It is really good to read a consultant taking on CDC’s investment strategy from the member’s point of view. The key metric for DC has been the size of the pot, but this is not what CDC is about. It … Continue reading
This morning BlackRock’s Massi Delle Donne debates CDC’s progress and where it could go.
You can join the Pension Playpen at 10.30 am tomorrow to hear BlackRock’s views using this link Steven Goddard CEO Pension Playpen Join BlackRock’s “orchard club” next Tuesday morning WHEN TUESDAY 23rd June at 10:30am PLATFORM : TEAMS … Continue reading
Tomorrow; BlackRock explain what they see in workplace CDC; details here.
You can join the Pension Playpen at 10.30 am tomorrow to hear BlackRock’s views using this link Steven Goddard CEO Pension Playpen Join BlackRock’s “orchard club” next Tuesday morning WHEN TUESDAY 23rd June at 10:30am PLATFORM : TEAMS … Continue reading
Join BlackRock’s “orchard club” next Tuesday morning
You can join Massi next Tuesday to hear BlackRock’s views using this link I was at the National Liberal Club yesterday to hear Massi Delle Donne explain why BlackRock are excited about delivering pensions collectively. I want to have some … Continue reading
A major manager takes CDC seriously. Will assets move en masse from DC to CDC workplace pensions?
I published this article last week and no one read it! I’ll try again, this time with a little more focus. If you want to know the impact that CDC is beginning to make on the market – read on. … Continue reading
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