Daily Archives: July 25, 2012

End of an epoch?

Posted on July 25, 2012 by henry tapper

This is an article by Con Keating, reproduced with his kind permission. It’s hard but it’s worth it- Con is the cleverest man in town. The demise of the Bretton Woods system in the 1970s was epoch-defining; it constituted a massive shift of … Continue reading →

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Send in forensic actuaries to sort out these “rip-off” pensions!

Posted on July 25, 2012 by henry tapper

Spookily, a couple of hours after I’d published yesterday’s blog about how the DWP had ducked the dodgy question of how to sort out legacy pension charges, Steve Webb, the Pension Minister issued an appeal to the pensions industry to … Continue reading →

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