The self-employed commonly have very lumpy income streams plus periods of feast and famine. Their lack of income security means…
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Tag Archives: TPR
What’s missing from TPR’s message to Trustees to raise their game?
It only needs the Pensions Regulator to make clear what everybody knows, that CDC give valuable pensions, to make everything to fall into place. Continue reading
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Tagged authorisation, Nausicaa Delfas, The Pensions Regulator, TPR, transfers
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Making pensions out of pots looked pretty hard to me and Terry
I’ll remember yesterday for good people trying hard to get to a good way to turn pots to pensions. They should listen to Terry for a simple answer – we don’t really need pots at all. Continue reading
TPR – can we have VFM scores at half time and full time!
We want scores at full time not just half time. Can we have results in a league table so savers can figure out the Value For their Money? Continue reading
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Tagged Emma Douglas, Full time, half-time, pensioners, Pensions, TPR, VFM
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Will CDC challenge DC workplace as the employer’s choice?
I read with great interest the Professional Pensions “Buzz ” results that asked this question and found a different result that I would have expected this time last year! Continue reading
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Tagged annuity, Business, Business and Economy, CDC, DC master trusts, Pensions, R-CDC, Retirement, TPR, workplace Pensions
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Should we have a consultation on whether we have a consultation on small pots?
It must be the last week in August to be a story. We have been consulting about small pots as long as we’ve had workplace pensions and probably longer. There have been no ends of people who have devoted themselves … Continue reading
“VFM framework” should follow horse racing’s Time Form and focus on winners and losers!
It’s the last week in August, so time to drag up the longest running failure to deliver we’ve ever had. Superfunds? Small pot consolidation? Pension Dashboards? VFM assessments? We are not getting good ideas into action. It has not been … Continue reading
As they approach guided retirement – for how much longer will master trusts de-risk?
I thought this a very interesting study of how far DC master trusts have come developing their investment strategies. Summary findings This analysis examines asset allocation across DC master trusts during the accumulation phase. Data reflects assets in 25 master … Continue reading
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Tagged CDC, dc, Guided retirement, master trusts, Pensions Regulator, TPR
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Thx Guy Opperman for getting CDC going (and to Nick Cave for our celebrations of the Code).
It’s time we remembered that Guy Opperman got the ball rolling, It may have rolled for nine years to yesterday, but we are at August 1st and into a new era for CDC. It seems to me there are a … Continue reading
For data reasons the lawyers can’t let us have a single DC savings regulator.
Hywel offers a fine observation based on the dim and distant days when he was a junior pension lawyer. It has been a long time since we had a “DC pension”. Not since the days of 226 plans where the … Continue reading
Unions – what’s happening with pensions? Neil Walsh explains CDC’s impact on Prospect – 10.30 this morning
This from the Government on “The future of CDC” The initial impetus for CDC has come from a large employer and a major trade union seeking an alternative pension model. But establishing CDC schemes opens the possibility of more diverse … Continue reading
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Tagged annuity, Business, CDC, corporate governance, Defined benefit pension plan, Employment, Neil Walsh, pension, Pensions, Prospect, Retirement, Targe, TPR
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