CDC success will depend on alignment on trade-offs

Support is building in the market, but employer doubts around complexity remain

Alex Levy
clock • 2 min read
Left to right: John Ball, Jack Jones, James Chemirmir, Jacqui Reid (Photo: Daniel Graves Photography)
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Left to right: John Ball, Jack Jones, James Chemirmir, Jacqui Reid (Photo: Daniel Graves Photography)

Pension professionals say that achieving stakeholder alignment on trade-offs will be key to the success of launching new collective defined contribution (CDC) schemes.

Speaking during a session yesterday (15 October) at the Pensions UK Annual Conference, panellists said that all stakeholders involved in CDC will need to be comfortable trading the relative flexibi...

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