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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Holding pension funds to accounts
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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Pension tax reliefs cost £48 billion a year
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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Holding pension funds to account
As the Guardian has noted this morning: The UK’s fund management industry is “ripe for investigation” because of “an alarming lack of transparency that surrounds
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If you want to know why pension funds should invest in long term infrastructure this is the answer
I have been arguing for well over a decade that pension funds should be focussing their investment efforts on long term bonds issued by local
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Make pension funds work for the UK
The FT ran a story a day or so ago with the headline: PM accused of overlooking potential UK pension fund investment To give a
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Institutional Investors Back Global Tax Reform Modernisation and Transparency
I think I am fit enough to share press releases I like. This one is from the UK based Local Authority Pension Fund Forum, issued
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The fundamentals of the real pension contract we’re all a part of
I was talking to a friend yesterday about fundamental economic reforms and the subject of pensions came into debate. That friend was concerned that in
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If pension funds had invested in social need in 2003 we’d be a lot better off now
One of the FT’s early morning emails includes this headline: Ebay is to spin off PayPal which accounts for as much as half of its
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