I was talking with someone who was pretty familiar with his employer’s pension fund yesterday, and who also knows a bit about the economy. He
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The wealthiest in the UK are given £27bn a year to subsidise their savings when total welfare payments are just £125bn a year
The Treasury Committee of the House of Commons published the following figure in its recent report on savings, pensions and related issues: There are three
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There is a way for local authority pension funds to invest in infrastructure
I spent my day around Westminster yesterday. One of the meetings I spoke at was staged by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Local Authority Pensions.
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Calls for more pension saving are a recipe for a pensions disaster
The Guardian reports this morning that: The average person will have to save £260,000 over their lifetime to enjoy a basic income in retirement, climbing
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Do pension funds really own only 3% of the FTSE 100, as the ONS suggest?
I was at a talk recently where a senior M&S executive claimed that 75% of shares are owned by pension funds. And then this week
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Tackling the intergenerational crisis requires fundamental economic reform and not just some taxes on wealth
Intergenerational justice is in the news this morning, and rightly so. As the Observer notes, The Resolution Foundation has a report coming soon on the
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Slowly but surely Labour’s creeping back to People’s QE. It could deliver a pension revolution at the same time
The Guardian has noted today that: Labour is to begin courting regional mayors and councils over its plans for £250bn of transport and infrastructure spending, promising
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In the last ten years the UK has subsidised pension saving by £481 billion. Wasn’t there a better use for that money?
HM Revenue & Customs published new data on pension saving yesterday. I summarise it a follows (I stress, the totals on here are my additions):
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University pensions
I was one of about 1,000 academics to sign this letter to the Times Higher Ed on university pensions: We write as senior academics to
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