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Can’t get to grips with collective pensions? LCP and Barbi-can!

I’m sorry about the poor headline to this post but the Barbican was part of the experience of LCP’s DB conference yesterday. I’ll call it a collective pension conference as CDC crashed the party. It looks like LCP , the … Continue reading →

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LCP – boy am I looking forward today’s day-long discussion at the Barbican!

I’m not a DB man, but I’m a collective pensions man and I will get a part of LCP’s DB conference dedicated to CDC (3pm – Draper and Taylor repeats the line up of last week’s PP coffee shop)! I’ll … Continue reading →

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The VFM 2, LCP partners and Brian Henderson;- 3 visions for retirement! The 4th’s from employers and unions – to come!

Having been fairly stuck in driving forwards a pension solution (a collective pension)  for the past few weeks, I took an afternoon with the foot off the accelerator peddle to consider three discussions of the state of pension. The first … Continue reading →

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State pension on course for £500 rise as earnings growth hits 4.1%

Thanks to Ellie Carric for this look forward to later in the year when we discover how much we will  “earn” in our state pension from April next year. I wish there were more articles as bonnie as this! I … Continue reading →

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C-Suite executives see CDC workplace pensions as simple to get on with

I’m pleased to hear that LCP pension clients are keen on providing good outcomes for their members, though I’m not surprised, that’s what they are paid to do! Professional Pension people know that pension outcomes are better using CDC than … Continue reading →

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Consultants discover their clients looking at CDC to pay retirement wages to staff

This blog’s a conflagration of what’s discovered by LCP, Gallagher and the Pension PlayPen. The responsibility of paying a pension to a member of staff is something that many employers still appear to  consider their job. This despite the talk … Continue reading →

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LCP promotes maximising pensions over wealth in CDC’s investment strategy

It is really good to read a consultant taking on CDC’s investment strategy from the member’s point of view. The key metric for DC has been the size of the pot, but this is not what CDC is about. It … Continue reading →

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LCP report on how we’d be retiring if CDC had been around since World War 2

LCP have done some work on this question. The link to the full report is here. What is so different about CDC? It’s the first question that we got from large employers their and unions and it’s the message that … Continue reading →

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IHT issues for the dying, their pension administrators and personal representatives

While this blog has been in favour of the Treasury discouraging using pension pots to mitigate Inheritance Tax , it is worried by the latest note coming out of the Treasury’s HMRC. The HMRC has published further detail on good … Continue reading →

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CDC offers a “real” retirement wage for post war children and kids born today (LCP)

When people say “real” income, they mean income that keeps pace with inflation. Real income is a fantastic promise to make to someone retiring. Those under 55 today are a generation for whom “stagflation” is no fear, they underestimate how … Continue reading →

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