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The DB De-Risking Supertanker… is it starting to turn? (LCP/PP)

Coffee Morning – DB De-Risking Supertanker… is it starting to turn? LCP’s Steve Hodder investigates Tuesday, July 8⋅10:30 – 11:30am You are cordially invited to attend our next Coffee Morning with Steve Hodder, me and Steve Goddard. Steve Hodder will … Continue reading

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McPhail and I on taking pension tax-free cash before the budget.

There is no-one I more enjoy debating pensions with than Tom McPhail. I have recently applied to take my tax free cash early from my DC pot. I’m nearly 63 and in 2 years I have to pay off a … Continue reading

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What’s an offsite? – What an offsite!

I may change the title to “what an offsite!” over the day but until this week I had never been on an offsite strategy day, unless you count those shonky sales conferences you used to go on because you’d “smashed … Continue reading

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The Pension Schemes Bill ensures private pensions will continue to be paid.

  The King’s speech, which laid out the new Labour government’s legislative priorities, contained details of a Pension Schemes Bill which would consolidate small pensions pots; test the value for money of schemes; oblige occupational pension schemes to offer new … Continue reading

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Will workplace saving schemes offer DB pensions again?

  For the past quarter of a century, offering defined benefit pension schemes has been the preserve of tax-payer backed organisations , a few quasi government organisations and not for profit organisations. Millions of people are still accruing in these … Continue reading

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Pension SuperHaven ; Turning pension savings into a “pension for life”

The Problem In the old days, when promised a pension from their company, most of our parents worked on the basis that the employer was sitting behind the promise and taking all the risk of paying a known i.e. defined, … Continue reading

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Should you get your guests to pay this Christmas?

No! Nobody should ever, ever, ever, charge their aunty to come over for Christmas dinner (or Chanukkah tea – or any other occasion). If you want a (possibly more sensible) take, @henryhtapper argues the other side brilliantly in this week’s … Continue reading

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I’ll argue on my blog – not in parliament.

The Work and Pensions  Committee announced the line-up for their sessions on LDI (23rd November). There’s been a bit of banter about lining up Con, John and Iain and me. Let’s calm things down. We may have very different views … Continue reading

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Turning pots to pensions – Simon Eagle at Pension PlayPen – Tuesday next

    Who will be talking? I’m very pleased that Simon Eagle is going to speak with me at Tuesday’s Pension PlayPen coffee morning . He’ll be speaking about CDC pensions for people with DC pots. Simon is pensions actuary, … Continue reading

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USS Pensions: Time for Agreement ; Michael Bromwich

The 2020 valuation of this Scheme with a deficit of £14bn led to sweeping cuts in benefits and a substantial strengthening of the financial backing (additional covenant support) provided by employers to the revised Scheme which commenced on 1 April … Continue reading

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