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Women can explain CDC more gently but just as robustly as us men!
Thanks to Sophie Dapin, who you’d never guess is an actuary! I mean this as a compliment! I’m going to see her talk next week but don’t have to wait as I’ve found this 8 minute clip thanks to Laura … Continue reading
The PAGA “Rabble” meet to progress collective pensions
PAGA is a group of pension professionals who set out the case for growth needed for pensions to pay what people need to live on in later life. It has through many meetings looked at the economics of running a … Continue reading
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Tagged Bob Compton, CDC, DB, Gurbani, John Hamilton, PACA, William McGrath
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Damian, most of us need help to get a decent wage in retirement!
Last Sunday lunchtime I sat in front of a group of 100 delegates at a fringe meeting of a union conference. We talked about them wanting their pensions back, of how they and their children could get paid a wage … Continue reading
DB Surpluses could and should make pensions fairer for the young
We talk about pension gaps; gaps between men and women, gaps between public and private sector pensions, but we are careful not to offend employers who have relics of defined benefit (an enormous burden) pensions and ongoing workplace pensions ( … 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
“Guided Retirement” will be hard work!
I’m a fan of Joey’s message from TPR in advance of the PPI’s report on the defaults that should help savers in turn pots to pensions. I’m a 64 year saver with a pot and no guided retirement yet. It … Continue reading
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Tagged CDC, decumulation, Guided retirement, landscape, pension, PPI, Segmentation
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Why was a fringe meeting packed-out for a new pension?
I have to admit to expecting to talk to an empty room. There were over a hundred chairs laid out when I arrived at a Brighton Conference Centre lunchtime meeting on a new pension called CDC. Within a couple of … Continue reading
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Tagged CDC, Christine Daniell, Neil Walsh, Pensions, Prospect, Prospect Union, Sue Ferns, Terry Pullinger, Wage in retirement
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Would your firm consider a CDC pension?
Today Terry Pullinger and I are in Brighton talking to union representatives working for employers with unionised workforces. We’re spending our Sunday explaining to ordinary workers what CDC does for staff and how employers can consider it. We’re … Continue reading
Isn’t it time to include CDC in the search for “Value for Money”.
I’ll do as I’m told by TPR and my compliance officer and stop listening to people who are fans of CDC. Instead I’ll listen who hate CDC and this who are as biased as apparently I am in wanting to … Continue reading
These women are “Friends of CDC” and speaking out for it !
I’m interested in what Vidette’s Alison Hatcher thinks. Firstly, I worked with her when we were contracted to Pension Superfund, secondly, she is going to be a trustee of the Pension Trust’s CDC scheme, (subject to authorisation). The third reason … Continue reading