I just posted this thread on Twitter: I am not sure what else there is to say about today’s massively confusing commentary from Rachel Reeves.
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How much more money do pension funds need before they can do some investing?
To continue my pension theme of the morning, I just posted this on Twitter: The question is, I think, appropriate. After all, if the opportunities
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Welcome to the Labour pension con-trick, coming your way at considerable increased cost to your pocket, very soon
I was on LBC this morning talking about pensions in the light of a Rachel Reeves media onslaught on the subject scheduled for this morning.
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The German government is going to splash €200 billion on supporting its failing private pension arrangements that are going to crash whatever they do sometime soon
The FT reports this morning that: Germany to create €200bn fund to support strained pension system The story says: The German government will invest billions
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Tax and money flows within the economy
This post is the third of the three that relate to the economic ideas underpinning the Taxing Wealth Report 2024. The first was on tax
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Reforming the conditions attached to pension tax relief could release £35 billion a year for investment in a UK Green New Deal
I have this morning published the latest note in my series that will make up the Taxing Wealth Report 2024. This latest note refers to a
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Pensions: is new thinking needed?
This is a guest post on pensions from regular commentator Clive Parry, who has had a long career in financial services-related issues. In it he
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Government can’t just ask pension funds to invest in our future: there has to be a stick attached to the demand
As the FT has noted this morning: Pension funds are resisting a UK government push to invest up to £50bn in projects and business to
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The Taxing Wealth Report 2024: abolishing the inheritance tax exemption on some funds retained in pension arrangements at the time of a person’s death might raise £1.3 billion a year
I have this morning published the next in my series of proposals that will make up the Taxing Wealth Report 2024. In this latest note, I
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