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CDC’s got a hard centre. Tough talking from DWP (4 TPR)
This blog bites inside the sweet messages of a 60% better pension for members to find what the DWP (and its regulator) have in mind beyond what was laid in 2022, is being laid now but what will need to … Continue reading
CDC – we “stand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start”.
I am pleased with the news that Parliament will have legislation set before it on Thursday tomorrow, which will allow the CDC on a whole of life basis to go ahead. A consultation about at retirement CDC will follow shortly. … Continue reading
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Tagged AgeWage, annuity, Business, CDC, Con Keating, dc, pension, TPR, workplace Pensions
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Tom McPhail questions the value for money from our pension regulation
We would all enjoy eating sausages a bit less, so the story goes, if we could see what goes into them. Well, you’d probably feel the same way about pension regulation if you could see how much it is costing … Continue reading
Good sense from TPR but is moderation enough in an uneasy time?
I like the Pensions Regulator when they are sensible , but I fear for them when there is a view in Britain that civil servants are doing us no good. In this article I give Robin Lloyd his voice but … Continue reading
Are there cuckoos scrambling your (tax-free) pension nest egg?
My friend Johnny Timpson put a thumbs down to an article in the Guardian . Not something that I’d expect; like the snoop I am, I decided to take a look. Here’s the article in the Guardian. Here’s why I … Continue reading
“By yon bonnie banks” – rigour and determination
I am up here in the Cameron House on the edge of Loch Lomond with people who want to talk about defined benefit pension schemes. There is no way to understand how people feel but by with them morning … Continue reading
When can we have a Chair for our Pensions Regulator?
Case one – the Chair debacle What a total mess is the appointment of the Chair of the Pensions Regulator. Over the weekend I was startled that the TPR was advertising for someone to review pensions policy who knew nothing … Continue reading
TPR and FCA are very polite at Parliament’s General Committee
A discussion between parliament’s General Commission and Patrick Coyne of TPR and Charlotte Clark This session gets a lot of interest from Government , perhaps because both regulators are within Government and neither have a commercial interest in the Pension … Continue reading
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Tagged Charlotte Clark, FCA, General Committee, parliament, Patrick Swayne, Pensions, TPR
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Let’s not celebrate anything about the pension disaster of Sept 2022.
Yesterday the Pension Regulator came out with the heartening news that our pension schemes are in surplus of the most part. Corporate Adviser report David Hamilton, chief actuary at Broadstone who tells us “This analysis formally evidences the step change … Continue reading
Pension Schemes Bill gets parliamentary evidence from 23 experts
We are at the end of a massive gift of evidence in Parliament If you take a fancy to , you can watch the morning meetings here You can watch the afternoon meetings here There has been a little comment … Continue reading