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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More economic folly from Rachel Reeves
It is time for more gimmicks from our beloved Chancellor of the Exchequer this morning. According to a Downing Street press release issued today: Working
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The only viable source of funding for investment in the UK is UK savers
It became clear yesterday that Rachel Reeves’ mad trip to China, accompanied by Andrew Bailey, who is Governor of the Bank of England, will raise
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