In this final post examining the current pension landscape in the UK, we turn our attention to pension schemes for public...
Unfunded public sector schemes
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UK Pensions Landscape
Public sector pensions: the local government pension scheme
This series of blog posts has explained how pensions have evolved in the UK for those working in the private sector. Now it’s...
Auto-enrolling the private sector
In the last couple of posts I explained how the Labour government responded to the decline in the number of active members of...
Auto-enrolment: the Pension Commission’s ‘big idea’
The last post discussed how the Pension Commission was established by the Labour government in 2002 to review the level of...
Rebuilding the UK’s private sector pensions
In my last three blog posts I explained how the gold-standard of defined benefit pensions had turned from a useful recruiting...
The rise and fall of the gold-standard pension scheme – part three
In my last post, I discussed how the introduction of new accounting standards at the start of the millennium cemented the fate...
The rise and fall of the gold-standard pension scheme – part two
In the last post, I discussed how changes during the 1990s turned defined benefit pension from a useful recruiting tool into an...
The rise and fall of the gold-standard pension scheme – part one
In the first post of this series explaining the history of UK pensions, we discussed the concept of a retirement income and the...
What is a pension?
This is the first in a series of posts which aim to bring some clarity to pensions. I aim to explain pensions from first...