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Brian Henderson asks whether CDC gives you better VFM than DC – it depends!
You can download the document for yourself from here. Here is Brian’s introduction on social media
Standard Life insures its own staff pension scheme; did the trustee find Standard Life’s covenant weak?
I find this hard to understand. Standard Life owns ReAssure. This buy out from the members point of view means losing upside from the pension scheme’s surplus for the reassurance (pun obvious) of an insurance policy underwritten by Standard Life. … Continue reading
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Tagged Gowling, Mercer, Reassure, Staff Pension Scheme, Standard Life, WTW
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What’s unique about a pension? I don’t want to be in a cohort of one!
Here is where the problem is. Large consultants are looking to create a new kind of retirement income service , where what is delivered is unique to each person. Let’s not get carried away.There is nothing unique about the state … Continue reading
Why is no-one declaring for CDC?
It is getting on for 6 years since Royal Mail and CWU decided to quit warring over pensions and settle on a CDC solution for their staff. To date, not one penny has been committed to its corporate pension plan … Continue reading
Investment consultants face major challenge on climate change advice.
This blog is about Carbon Tracker’s Loading the Dice against pensions which you can download here This report is a call to action for investment professionals to look at the compelling evidence we see inthe climate science literature, and … Continue reading
Trustees should deal with complaints on DB transfers
I can understand people feeling they have “missed the boat” in not taking a DB transfer.They shouldn’t as they haven’t and if trustees were more on the ball they would be writing to anyone who had inquired after a CETV … Continue reading
It’s not just what you save, it’s the way you invest it – that’s what gets results
Bananarama and the Funboy Three do not figure on my Spotify playlists , they supplied us with some annoying earworms and the inspiration for this blog but ‘Tain’t What You Do (It’s the Way That You Do It) is a … Continue reading
Putting “transfer” in employer’s heads
Since 2012, the industry has self regulated pension transfer exercises where employers offer staff a financial incentive, to quit good quality schemes. Industry leaders are now calling for the Govt to intervene after saying self-regulation is failing https://t.co/sSwvLQG94A — Josephine … Continue reading
CMA investment probe shock; the big three breathe again!
It shows the distance between the consumer and the investment consultant that all but a handful of readers will know what this headline refers to. To the general public, the Competition and Markets Authority’s probe into the opaque world of … Continue reading
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Tagged Aon, CMA, Consultants, Investment, Mercer, pensions, WTW
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With “good risk” , we can push the sky away.
This from City AM’s Josh Mines The pension deficit of the UK’s 350 largest companies tumbled by a huge £16bn over the course of May, figures out today have shown. In just one month, the FTSE 350 pension … Continue reading