Thanks. "The crucial difference, however, is that the ISA withdrawal is not a loan." As the two article links confirm,…
www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w32828/w32828.pdf While there is good evidence for automatic escalation in the US, it is not as powerful as its advocates…
"To what extent do minimum AE contributions need to increase? It would be good if everyone had contributions into DC…
Except they’re not saving into a pension, Minister unless we convert all those pots to CDC and give them what…
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Come and debate the future of DC with the Prospect union.
We will discuss how unions are getting to grips with CDC as a way forward to what are currently DC workplace pensions. The event is at 10.30 am on Tuesday 21st July. You can get into the meeting on this … Continue reading
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Tagged annuity, Business, CDC, corporate governance, Defined benefit pension plan, Employment, Neil Walsh, pension, Pensions, Prospect, Retirement, TPR
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The Treasury has opened up new seams of fees for pension advisers and consultants.
I’m sorry Jason, I don’t think your observation is any more valid than the money in the photo, it may be money but no one else observes it. Here’s what benefit consultants have got on their mind For decades savers … Continue reading
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Tagged advice, AgeWage, auto enrolment, dc pensions, Defined benefit pension plan, inheritance tax, pension, Pensions, Retirement
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So how do we manage if the value of our house isn’t going up?
I will start with a post and article from the very good Times stalwart David Byers In the old days, your suspicion that your future pension wasn’t what it ought to be wasn’t a major worry. The house would help … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, CDC, David Byers, Equity, middle class, pension, Pensions, Property, Retirement, the Times
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How do unions feel about CDC?
What we were used to – no longer available to workers in the private sector Since the collapse of Defined Benefit pensions first for new joiners and soon after for further accrual by those already members, the unions have fallen … Continue reading
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Tagged annuity, Business, CDC, corporate governance, Defined benefit pension plan, Employment, Neil Walsh, pension, Pensions, Prospect, Retirement, TPR
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Fresh Alternative Investment Fund Policy
Draft SI and Policy note Draft legislation to reform the regulatory framework for Alternative Investment Fund managers, streamlining the regulation to support growth and tailoring for UK markets. From: HM Treasury Published 14 July 2026 Documents The Alternative Investment Fund … Continue reading
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Timelines for DC, CDC and DB to deliver income with VFM
Not much policy can have ambition to “chart the course to a pensions system fit for the 21st century“. That’s how Torsten Bell talks of his workplace pension work. Here is what the charting of the next ten years looks. … Continue reading
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Pensions deferred for workplace DC schemes ; CDC exempted!
There are a range of headlines about what the changes of the timeline to the Pension Schemes Act Timeline and what surrounds it. For the asset managers and those who manage commercial workplace pensions it is about “scale” and what … Continue reading
Changes for turning pots to pension and getting scale for workplace pensions.
Not much policy can have ambition to “chart the course to a pensions system fit for the 21st century“. That’s how Torsten Bell talks of his workplace pension work. Here is what the charting of the next ten years looks. … Continue reading
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Is the UK criticizing American pension funding “calling the kettle black”? Derek Scott v Benefit Jack
In my article yesterday, I argued that Britain was a paradigm of virtue. When it comes to organising its funded and unfunded pensions – in comparison to Chicago (and other American municipalities) I am sure it is. But the question … Continue reading
Chicago’s cavalier funding of its pension promise; compare to the funding of LGPS
Here’s a pension crisis waiting to happen “Anything and everything is on the table because we do have to stabilise the city’s finances,” What is being talked of is Chicago’s pension promises. The FT reports the words of it’s Mayoral … Continue reading
I did not find this , Torsten's most impressive work (not sure it was his). But it at least remind…