Trump wants to use tax as a weapon in international trade wars. That could backfire horribly for him. This is the audio version: This is
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Uncertainty, risk and misplaced assumptions on data and rationality
There has been discussion on pension fund management here over the last day or two. My suggestions when making my comments were threefold: Risk is
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Do you know where your pension is?
This video was actually recorded about three or four days ago, before the furore about pensions that has erupted here over the last couple of
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A note to trolling actuaries
Whenever I write about defined benefit pension schemes, as I do on occasion, there are a persistent group of trolls who turn up here to
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Leave pensioner’s money alone!
As the FT notes this morning: Whenever there are pension surpluses, which imply that corporate pension funds are adequately funded, the companies sponsoring such funds
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Saving is not the same as investment
Savings are persistently confused with investing in the UK. In reality, few savings create any real investment in the UK, and that’s why our investment
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Pensions and the green transition
The Finance Innovation Lab, with which I have been cooperating on policy creation for pensions linked to a green transition, has created a petition linked
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Stock markets are mad
Despite the madness of Trump, the continuing reality of tariffs and an unsurprising fall in US GDP, stock markets have recovered their losses. This makes
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The stupidity of markets
This is the FTSE 100 chart for the last six months: As brokers, Hargreaves Lansdown, noted in a mail they sent me (and others) last
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