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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
Kevin Wesbroom sees some worth in CIDC
Kevin Wesbroom has been a leading pension commentator since the 1980s for Bacon and Woodrow, Hewitt and no Aon. He is a Friend of CDC and writes tellingly on how CDC might work in post-freedom Britain. This is the first … Continue reading
Pension promises- “second hand not second rate”.
There’s an old Elvis Costello song (Senior Service) which talks about the DWP They took me in the office and they told me very carefully The way that I could benefit from death and disability I thought of it as … Continue reading
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Tagged David Blake, Economist, Elvis Costello, FABI, PPI, Second best
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How defined is your benefit?
Today the Pension Institute, those “left-leaning losers” who shaped the Labour manifesto before the last election, will publish an uncompromising paper setting out the state of our defined benefit pensions, especially those supported by private sector “promises to pay”. … Continue reading
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Tagged CDC, Conditional Indexation, David Blake, dc, Debbie Harrison, defined benefit, Netherlands, Pension Insitute
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Let’s fix broken pensions, not start again.
The answer lies in doing things better, not doing things new Continue reading