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CDC for staff in social housing – First Actuarial’s Derek Benstead
I think any work done by First Actuarial under Derek Benstead is readable. Here are thoughts published this week It comes with a note from Derek himself Since First Actuarial helped establish Collective Defined Contribution (CDC) pensions in the UK, … Continue reading
Benstead, CDC’s veteran designer at 10.30am today
If you are interested in CDC and excited by news that our pension minister is endorsing TLT’s work in this year then come to Pension PlayPen’s coffee morning this morning at 10.30 am. It’s a free event and we … Continue reading
Benstead on CDC next Tuesday at Pension PlayPen
If you are interested in CDC and excited by news that our pension minister is endorsing TLT’s work in this year then come to Pension PlayPen’s coffee morning next Tuesday at 10.30 am. It’s a free event and we … Continue reading
Derek Benstead provides a fresh view on collective pensions this morning at 10.30am
Pension PlayPen Coffee Morning 10.30 am Tuesday 4th July Fresh from his visit to Parliament to explain to the Work and Pensions Committee why open DB schemes have a future (along with CDC) , he’s now joining us for … Continue reading
Derek Benstead, DB by name – collective by nature! PP Coffee Morning – July 4th
Pension PlayPen Coffee Morning 10.30 am Tuesday 4th July Fresh from his visit to Parliament to explain to the Work and Pensions Committee why open DB schemes have a future (along with CDC) , he’s now joining us for … Continue reading
Why “the anti-growth alliance” is a nonsense.
One of the moments that made my mind up about my politics was standing in a hall listening to the Tom Robinson Band singing “better decide which side you’re on”. It contains the lyric If left is right then right … Continue reading
Of nuclear deterrents, sledgehammers and nuts – (DWP Select on DB)
The 90 page report on the state of our defined benefit pension schemes is published this morning. From first to last it is the work of Frank Field, it begins with BHS and ends with BHS, the confrontation with Philip … Continue reading
Posted in defined ambition, DWP, pensions, Pensions Regulator, workplace pensions
Tagged Derek Benstead, DWP, FABI, Frank Field, knee jerk, Nut, ppf, Sledgehammer
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“Nothing” is very much wrong with defined benefit pension schemes.
This week I was asked this question by a civil servant (not directly involved with pensions). Ignorant question: What in regulation or law would prevent a DB pension scheme being valued based on the actual assets as opposed to the … Continue reading
Posted in accountants, actuaries, pensions
Tagged Actuarial, Con Keating, Derek Benstead, Government, nada te turbe, pensions, Wendy Handcock
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Doesn’t pension freedom extend to Defined Benefits?
The debate about the assumptions we use to decide the state of our defined benefit schemes is in full swing. On the one hand you have those, like John Ralfe who use an approach which ensures that there’s always enough … Continue reading
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Tagged DB, defined benefit, Derek Benstead, first actuarial, Freedoms, Guarantee, John Ralfe, pensions, PPF7800, Rob Hammond, The Pensions Regulator, TPR
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Cash beats shares for capital gains (but not for pensions).
Paul Lewis has produced a brilliant study that shows how the outcomes of investing a capital sum in cash would have been better than investing in shares over the past 21 years. Paul is right, the numbers do not lie and … Continue reading
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Tagged Bonds, capital, Cash, Derek Benstead, equities, Investment, ISAs, Paul Lewis, pension, pensions, shares
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