CDCs: From Holland, with love...

Can CDCs plug the pensions savings gap?

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Rowanmoor's Mark Lisle examines whether collective defined contribution schemes would be a worthwhile addition to the UK's pensions landscape...

Everything seems to be happening at once, both in the world of football and the world of pensions. In a rollercoaster close season, the Dutch national team manager has one foot in the door at Old Trafford and we have just witnessed his team narrowly miss qualifying for the World Cup final. Meanwhile, the Budget has created an unprecedented degree of interest in pensions. Forty years ago, the Netherlands, featuring the mercurial talents of Johan Cruyff, brought total football to the world stage. This was the concept that formations and the players within them could be fluid, due to the...

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