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This is from the Guardian this morning: More than 200,000 people have emptied their pension pot or withdrawn cash from it after the relaxation of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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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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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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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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