The Fair Pension campaign’s launch of its new report on fiduciary duty is fascinating. In the pension context they argue that the prevailing interpretations of
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Time for reform of the duties of pension trustees – because a quick buck is not the basis on which to build our future
I’m going to the launch event for a new report this afternoon. Issued by the Fair Pensions campaign, it’s on a them with which I
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The greatest ill facing our society is the lack of social housing – and we could solve it with pension fund cash
There’s thoughtful consideration on this issue – and the problems a lack of new social housing building has caused – at the Green Benches blog
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The fundamental pension contract
All recent debates about pensions have worried me. Lord Turner got it wrong when undertaking his review which will result in near- compulsory private sector
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Public back decent public sector pensions
A poll commissioned by Prospect, a trade union, on public sector pensions reveals that pubic attitudes to public sector pensions are not quite what the
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Public sector pensions – a response
As economists we are opposed to the public sector pension reforms proposed by this government and Lord Hutton. Public sector pensions are far more efficient
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Tackling the boomer pension crisis – by putting people to work
Phillip Inman at the Guardian argued yesterday that: We need to address the question of how we can make a fairer society, and part of
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There are no ifs, no buts, just a need for growth, not cuts
Simon Jenkins is a perplexing, and confused man. He’s written a piece for the Guardian in which he strongly criticises, on Keynesian grounds, the rise
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The alternative economic policy we need
I find it massively frustrating that Labour has said almost nothing (bar one good speech by Ed Balls) on the economy since the election and
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