There’s a massive crisis in the pensions industry. It’s simply described. We’re living longer so pensions cost more. In February the Pension Regulator proposed changes
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The pension model is broken – so let’s fix it
It’s reported that: The UK’s Pension Protection Fund faced a total shortfall of £80.1bn ($153bn) at the end of July from pension schemes in deficit,
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Equitable Life: what it mean for offshore
The Parliamentary Ombudsman (Ann Abraham) has found that: The U.K. should compensate Equitable Life Assurance Society policyholders who lost out when the insurer almost collapsed
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Investing for real: how to use tax releif to best effect
There was an extraordinary piece of information in the Observer newspaper on Sunday. It was noted with regard to equity investors that: Retail investors have
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Time to say goodbye to equities
In 2003 I co-authored a paper with Colin Hines and Alan Simpson MP called People’s Pensions: New Thinking for the 21st Century. It was published
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Regulation can work for pensioners
The FT reports that: The Takeover Panel has taken the highly unusual step of giving Pension Corporation the option to withdraw from its agreed £400m
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Opaque accounting threatens pensions
According to Accountancy Age Arther Levitt, former head of the SEC in the States has said opaque accounting is putting US pension funds at risk.
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Never in the field of human saving has so much been taken from so many by so few
Another front page story of significance this morning. Ashely Seagar in the Guardian reports that City bonuses have reached £14 billion this year. He suggests
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Pensions minister not quite on the ball
Consider this parliamentary question and answer: Alan Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what consideration was given to the potential
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