I agree with Dearieme that DB pensions or more particularly their employers have been punished by politicians seeking to avoid…
Agreed: Mr Aitken is a Good Thing. His point is interesting too. But DB pensions were presumably doomed once politicians…
As Richard Smith said, a key lesson from his visits to existing dashboard programs overseas was “Launch small, build features,…
[…] movement away from PE funds to direct investment at an LGPS conference over two years ago when Toby Nangle…
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Carers get a proper funded collective pension from the Government
The recognition of the role CDC could play in UK pensions by government and wider policy makers is welcome. Continue reading
“We’re against mandation till it suits us”…. Pensions UK call for more money.
Mandation of increased savings is no better than the mandation of domestic investment. We need to want to do it, we need pensions and not pots. Continue reading
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Tagged AE, cost of living, Mandation, pension, Social Cared, triple lock
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Pension, health and housing – welfare for those working and retired.
Welfare is tripartite; pension, health and housing . This Conference will deal with the two that pension people need to better understand. Continue reading
Should USS invest for growth or lock down its assets?
I know that many members of USS read this blog and some members of its executive. I hope this is interesting and fair. If you have a view please use the comments below as your correspondence is always informed. Continue reading
“My pension offer” – explaining CDC to a confused sceptic 12 years ago!
This is a blog I published 12 years ago on 28th September 2014. It is now 12 years old and shows that the debate has been broadly the same for some time! Continue reading
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Tagged annuities, Business, Business and Economy, CDC, collective, DC Defined Contributions, Defined benefit pension plan, Drawdown, DWP, Employment, Financial services, flexible drawdown, Flumps, Government, Human Resources, Insurance, NEST, pension, Pension Regulator, Pensions, Retirement
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BP’s pensioners will not give up on the pensions they’ve been promised.
BP employed some very talented people who had strong principles. Murray is one of them. They will not give up on getting the pensions they were promised. Continue reading
Teacher’s pay rise partially funded by a drop in pension payments into LGPS
The money that they’d had to find under the original offer is now fully funded by the Government out of money they would have paid into LGPS. Support staff in schools are in the LGPS. Continue reading
In Defence of the Pension Pot – Matthew Webb
Matthew Webb has sent me this article and I’m very pleased he has. It is not the way I feel but I respect what Matthew does. He is now as Executive Director, Global Benefits Integration and Enablement at Comcast . … Continue reading
A pension’s autobiography on the dashboard!
This is the whole of the life of a friend of mine. He/she’s a fan of the pension dashboard and you can see why. I love the “around the £54,142.86 per annum” . That’s not approximation – that feels like … Continue reading
Unions; accruing DB for staff-encouraging collective pensions for millions of members
Set in a splendid converted warehouse in Borough’s warehouse yesterday this Trade Union Pensions Insight Conference was packed to the last available chair and there were people standing at the back. No surprise when Trade Unions have recovered their pension … Continue reading
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It is important to remember that even in the halcyon days of DB well under half the working population ever…