Monthly Archives: January 2022
Ageism in the UK
Lucy Kellaway has written a good article in the FT about ageism. Frances Coppola seems to have had a light bulb moment when reading it. Great, great article. We all need to re-examine our attitudes towards older people. That includes … Continue reading
Keating and Clacher on excluding performance fees from the charge cap.
This blog is the responses from Con Keating and Iain Clacher to the second Government consultation on the exclusion of performance fees from the charge cap announced in the 2021 budget . You can read “Enabling investment in productive … Continue reading
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How do we measure the value of financial advice in retirement?
We are often told to take advice in retirement but we don’t often know what to expect for the money we pay. This has become an important issue for me, because I am due to speak shortly with the … Continue reading
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Al Rush on the mis-selling of financial advice to steelworkers
This blog is a response to a Facebook post by Al Rush , who for the past five years has been helping steelworkers understand the precarious position of their savings following transfer to personal pensions by their financial adviser. I’ve … Continue reading
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Follow the data and defend the charge cap – Clacher and Keating
Today’s blog is the continuation of yesterday’s introduction to problems with the proposed exemption of the charge cap. Your authors are Con Keating and Iain Clacher. We responded to the earlier consultation on illiquid private ‘market’ investments and performance fees. … Continue reading
True and Fair’s bid to clean up politics and public office
Gina Miller has launched a new political force. It positions itself in the liberal center of British Politics and some will consider it a re-brand of the Liberal Democrat party itself. It has issued an initial manifesto based on the … Continue reading
“How productive is productive capital?” – Keating and Clacher
On 30th November 2021, the Government announced a further consultation on “Enabling investment in Productive Finance“. This article is the response to that consultation by Con Keating and Iain Clacher. Introduction This consultation comes just a few months after the modification … Continue reading
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Why do actuaries worry more about death than life?
Yesterday the ONS published new numbers on anticipated life expectancy in the UK. Follow David Robbins’ thread for the significance of life expectancy to the recalculation of the state pension age. 1/X) It could be said that today’s ONS life … Continue reading
The market’s indifferent to Johnson’s future – should we care?
The markets clearly aren’t in the slightest bothered by what’s going on in parliament and Downing Street. Johnson’s apology might as well have played out on Emmerdale for its economic significance. (Johnson and Meena are interchangeable comedy villains in our … Continue reading
Are we to be taken for fools?
this is the clip pic.twitter.com/Hi9b6GsUsd — Iain Overton (@iainoverton) January 10, 2022 There are many Conservative MPs (Guy Opperman among them) who will remember this episode in the House of Commons where the Prime Minister expresses his fury at … Continue reading