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Con Keating’s report of David Blake’s CDC workshop
This is a personal and idiosyncratic commentary on the Pensions Institute/Netspar workshop for the exchange of experiences and views of DC plans in the UK and Netherlands. While there was little which was entirely new to me, there was much … Continue reading
Investment aspects of CDC – Con Keating
One of the less discussed aspects of CDC is the management of the investment fund. This differs from traditional DC where the asset management objective is to maximise asset values at all times. It is intrinsically short-term. Incidentally this conflicts … Continue reading
Con Keating on the Rules of Evidence and The Defined Benefit White Paper.
This post is from Con Keating and first appeared in Portfolio Institutional Alongside its new DB white paper (Protecting Defined Benefit Pension Schemes) the Department of Work and Pensions published a summary of the responses to the earlier DB Green … Continue reading
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Smoke, mirrors and bogus objections; an acerbic blog from Con Keating
For their own reasons, usually venal, objectors to the implementation of collective defined contribution have managed to surround the concept with a fog of obfuscation and confusion. This has only been possible because of one of the great strengths of … Continue reading
“The Ship has sailed” – Con Keating on the Society of Pension Professionals CDC submission
On Saturday, on Radio 4’s Money Box programme, Hugh Nolan of the Society of Pension Professionals expressed the view that the “ship had sailed” for CDC pensions, and proceeded into the tired and repetitive narrative that it is too late … Continue reading
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Tagged CDC, Con Keating, DB, dc, Hugh Nolan, pensions, ship has sailed
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“CDC’s about improving DC” – Con Keating
This essay compliments my blog this morning. Con Keating is the author of this blog – our thinking is coincidental, though our manner of expressing it – is not! In all of the discussions of the minutiae of the … Continue reading
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Tagged CDC, Con Keating, pensions, reform, workplace Pensions
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“No need for CDC to ape the Dutch” – quips Con Keating.
This is a review of: The Legal Differences between CIDC and CDC by Prof. dr. Hans van Meerten and Elmar Schmidt, February 2018. It takes the form of a line by line commentary (in red) on the verbatim text of … Continue reading
When should pensions be cut in a CDC arrangement? – Con Keating
Or equivalently: how much risk to members’ pensions is there in mutually offered funded pension? The setting is the DB type pension (Cdb) of some fixed proportion of, say, final salary. Typically, for mature schemes these represent amounts which are … Continue reading
That’s what Friends (of CDC) are for!
It is not pleasant to open your phone to find 25 messages directed towards you and your colleagues trolling your work. So thanks to Alan Higham for what I hope is a message if not of support, at least … Continue reading
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Tagged CDC, Con Keating, Freinds of CDC, friends, Mike Otsuka, pensions
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“Might young people do well from CDC?” – Con Keating’s thinking on investments.
In a risk-obsessed world, Con Keating observes that it’s its absence of risk-management that could be CDC’s greatest boon to the young. The new member joining a collective DC scheme is contributing marginally to a collective fund. This fund is itself … Continue reading
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Tagged CDC, Con Keating, de-risking, milennials, pensins, Young People
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