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Tag Archives: Pension Schemes Bill
With Friends Like These, Who Needs Enemies? The DB Funding Code: An Existential Threat to Open DB Scheme
We have been asked what impact the Funding Code would have on open schemes by a number of correspondents. This blog illustrates why the new funding code is the biggest risk that open scheme members face . Simply put, … Continue reading
Posted in actuaries, advice gap, age wage
Tagged Con Keating, DB Funding Code, Dr Iain Clacher, open pensions, Pension Schemes Bill, Pensions
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“Let my data go” – our plea to parliament
Submission to the Committee scrutinising the Pension Schemes Bill 1, This submission from Henry Tapper in his capacity as CEO of AgeWage and Chairperson of the Pension PlayPen. These private companies are digital resources for individuals and employers to … Continue reading
DB pensions are in a hole, let’s swap the DWP’s spade for a ladder
Bowles my liege… It’s a great shame to read Guy Opperman excising Sharon Bowles amendment to the Pensions Act. The Bowles amendment would give open pension schemes the capacity to be funded as ongoing concerns rather than being … Continue reading
Posted in dc pensions, de-risking, DWP
Tagged Con Keating, Guy Opperman, LCP, Pension Schemes Bill, Pensions, RailPen, Sharon Bowles
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Bowles, my liege! DWP’s cruel blow to open pensions
Like a U-boat slipping silently out of its berth, amendments to the Pension Schemes Bill were launched into the rough swell of political waters on Monday (19th). You can read the amendments here, though they seem to have eluded even … Continue reading
Would CDC have surfed the pandemic’s waves? Aon think so
Earlier this week Willis Towers Watson explained how an individual’s buying power from a CDC scheme could be 70% higher than from a conventional DC scheme. Hot on its heels, Aon analysis shows UK CDC schemes would have weathered 2020’s … Continue reading
Posted in actuaries, advice gap, CDC, pensions
Tagged Aon, CDC, Pension Schemes Bill, Pensions, target pension
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Opperman – pensions are for the long term
It was good to see Guy Opperman speaking at Professional Pensions Live. This is my take on his speech and the direction of Government pension’s policy as we come out of lock-down and into the summer recess! Recently Guy … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, age wage, Dashboard, open pensions, Pension Freedoms, pensions
Tagged bowles, Dashboard, Guy Opperman, House of Lords, Pension Schemes Bill, pensions, Superfund
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Lets stop kidding ourselves about pensions
Three things prompt me to write this article The work of Dr Iain Clacher and Con Keating into the unequal burden regulation places on the sponsors of defined benefit pension schemes The agreement between unions, Government and employers in the … Continue reading
Posted in age wage, CDC, consolidation, pensions
Tagged CDC, Con Keating, Iain Clacher, Netherlands, Pension Schemes Bill, pensions
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Time for some fresh thinking on CDC
The Pension Schemes Bill is making its way through the House of Lords but now seems unlikely to get Royal Assent before July. If it misses its target and we don’t get an Act till the Autumn, a Royal … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, age wage, CDC, pensions
Tagged CDC, DB, employer, master trust, one trick pony, Pension Schemes Bill, pensions, Royal Mail
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Now it’s a Pension “Green” Bill
The Government has introduced radical new amendments to the Pension Schemes Bill which allows it to force effective governance and disclosure of climate risk by occupational pensions schemes. What’s “radical” is that these amendments give the DWP the power … Continue reading
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Tagged DWP, ESG, Gree, Green pensions, Pension Schemes Bill, pensions
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The employer’s “duty of care” to choose a workplace pension; the parliamentary debate.
In my most recent blog, I expressed a hope that the amendment to the Pension Schemes Bill would be accepted (in the full knowledge that it wouldn’t). It was withdrawn by the Shadow Pensions Minister but not without debate. I … Continue reading
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Tagged alex Cunningham, Pension Schemes Bill, pensions, Richard Harrington
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