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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
Collective Defined Contribution Schemes – the “Shameful Missed Opportunity” of 2008!
Here is An article by Kevin Wesbroom. I first published it on June 3rd 2014, just over 12 years ago. Kevin was then leading Aon’s thought leadership on DC . This reminds me how little had changed since six years … Continue reading
The way clear for CDC to prosper as a workplace pension
It is something of an open secret that DWP see CDC working as a way of building up as well as getting paid a pension. Some doubt persisted that this could be done and that those who’d saved into A … Continue reading
Major news from Nest which points to a pensions success.
It is easy to poke fun at consolidation and the establishment of megafunds. It is not easy to create a pension fund that invests nearly a quarter of its assets as Nest does in Britain, in its infrastructure and production. … Continue reading
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Tagged assets, Business, CDC, DWP, Financial services, Government, Long Term Assets, National Employment Savings Trust, NEST, pension, Pensions, Retirement, Scale
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I give up on VFM for pensions and so does Guy Opperman, I like the guy!
I don’t suppose that former Minister Guy Opperman knew he would be reported at the Aptia conference yesterday. He works for them a couple of days a month and was delivering the kind of comments that would have gone down … Continue reading
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Tagged Aptia, Business, CDC, DWP, FCA, Guy Opperman, pension, Pensions, Retirement, TPR, Value for Money, VFM
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KISS – Pensions need to be kept simple, stupid.
Running this headline yesterday, Professional Pensions became confused between arguments for proliferation from the House of Lords and arguments from an administrator to consolidate pensions onto a few well run administration platforms. This article started out as an attempt by … Continue reading
Should I be worried about the new CDC schemes going wrong?
One of the discussions over Easter about my posts on CDC complained that I only made claims for CDC if a CDC pension scheme was “open”. I referred to the possibility of a CDC scheme entering an endgame and what … Continue reading
How robust is CDC to different market conditions? – LCP looks at the last 80 years
CDC investment strategy is twice as important as the contributions paid. – say LCP. I am understanding the history of money with them in the second part of their epic on the feasibility of CDC I am really pleased that … Continue reading
TAS300: “Particularly Delightful Memory” says DWP Minister of State.
Regulatory coordination to follow to boost “informed decision making” The case for maths based run-on v bulk transfer comparisons ahead of strategies being set for DB pension schemes was debated in the House of Lords for the third time on … Continue reading