Tag Archives: WTW
Why is WTW’s retirement CDC not getting the thumbs up?
We always need analysis to help us make choices. We are getting a lot from WTW about decumulation CDC and the numbers don’t look anything like 60% better for CDC if you wait to swap your pot for a CDC … Continue reading
I hope professional trustees will come to CDC independently
I was surprised to see a firm of professional trustees promoting itself with WTW , who are consultants but also providers of DC services through LifeSight . I have heard WTW present CDC as an extension of Lifesight , with … Continue reading
Playing a tiny violin badly for First Actuarial?
I am not sure what this little video or a badly played under-sized violin is saying? Is it ironic or simply inept? Gallagher is an insurance brokerage rather like Aon and Marsh Mac and Howden and Willis Towers Watson which … Continue reading
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Why has WTW bought Cushon? Why did people buy Cushon?
One interesting snippet from the WTW/NatWest Cushon press release comes at the end of Nick Reeves’ pre-report I wonder what an employer in a firm such as Creative or Salvus is thinking having started with that trust, become part of … Continue reading
Are we finally waking up to a pension less world? WTW and broken DC.
I guess it takes a world wide pension consultancy called Willis Towers Watson to grab the attention, but the Emperor has been parading around naked for quite some while. When I say “Emperor” , I mean the “DC pension” and … Continue reading
DB funding regulations – intentionally right- substantially wrong
We have new DB funding regulations but the revised regulations are still a brake on the productive finance agenda. The Department for Work and Pensions has published revised defined benefit funding regulations today, and has responded to the consultation it launched … Continue reading
WTW asks “why is the PPF proposing to charge £100m of levies in 2024/25?”
My good friends Jo Shepard and David Robbins have clubbed up to write a blog on the PPF levy which I shamelessly re-blog without amendment – as I agree and cannot aspire to improving what they write in any … Continue reading
DB surpluses are not “the golden opportunity” of the Mansion House reforms.
WTW (as we now must call Willis Towers Watson) have identified the use of surplus as conclusive to the WTW perspective ( a four page PDF which finishes with this call to action). It would have been as unimaginable for … Continue reading
WTW ‘s “golden opportunity” – to put into practice what Mansion House preaches
I am surprised and pleased that Willis Towers Watson have come out in support of the Mansion House reforms as a pension reset. It has published its various responses in one place and I will digging into some of them … Continue reading
Congratulations to Royal Mail on Britain’s first authorised CDC scheme
A sight many of us thought we would never see…. It is hugely satisfying that after so long, we can finally say that there is an authorised CDC scheme. Many congratulations to the management of Royal Mail , to its … Continue reading