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Head of Policy at Broadstone. Basically-a talkative technical pensions geek prone to whimsy & typos. Also a pensions stalwart don't you know...
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Why Retirement Living Standards can’t be pension targets

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By David Brooks
| broadstone.co.uk
Head of Policy David Brooks argues that Retirement Living Standards are useful because they help people picture what different retirement lifestyles could look like – but they shouldn’t be treated as pension targets, because they’re based on broad assumptions rather than personal circumstances. Target Replacement Rates offer another useful lens by linking retirement income to someone’s own earnings, but they have limits too.
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A new Prime Minister – and the chance to move the pensions debate on

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By David Brooks
| broadstone.co.uk
This article is intended for professional and institutional audiences only and is not directed at retail clients. By David Brooks, Head of Policy at Broadstone Table of Contents Toggle A change in Prime Minister always creates the sense of a reset. The reality is more constrained. Public finances are tight, demands are rising, and pensions – like everything else – must be funded from the same finite pool. There is no cost-free reform.
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How employers can make workplace pensions work with human behaviour

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By David Brooks
| broadstone.co.uk
By David Brooks, Head of Policy at Broadstone In this article, Broadstone’s Head of Policy, David Brooks, explores why employees often delay pension saving despite knowing it matters. Drawing on Meghan Sullivan’s theory of time bias, he argues that workplace pension schemes expose a deeper human challenge: employees are being asked to make decisions today for the benefit of a future self they do not naturally value in the same way as their present one.
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