The Tories announced the scrapping of two major rail electrification schemes last week. One was the Midland main line. The other the Cardiff to Swansea
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I was asked yesterday if I would write about pensions as part of the series of blogs I have done over the last few weeks
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The following article by me was published in the Observer on 14 July 2002. Not that much has changed since, and my sentiment remains largely
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I was discussing the political economy last night. This is not especially surprising: it is something I am inclined to do. It so happened that
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The FT has reported today that: The Pension Protection Fund is in talks with Sir Philip Green and British Home Stores that could see the
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This is from the Guardian this morning: More than 200,000 people have emptied their pension pot or withdrawn cash from it after the relaxation of
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Yesterday’s stock market turmoil, whatever its long term impact, hints at a much bigger problem than a simple over valuation of Chinese shares needing adjustment.
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Four things have reminded me of a blog I wrote earlier this year in holding pension funds to account for the actions they take on
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Yesterday the Centre for Policy Studies claimed that pensioner households that received more in income from the state than they p[aid in tax were a
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