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Monthly Archives: January 2022
A Roadmap for Increasing Productive Finance Investment
A Roadmap for Increasing Productive Finance Investment We consider here the case for investment in less liquid assets and the current DC pension scheme landscape as set out in “A Roadmap for Increasing Productive Finance Investment”. We note first … Continue reading
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Tagged chris sier, Con Keating, DWP, HM Treasury, Iain Clacher, Productive Finance
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“There’s plenty of “dry powder” – we need an explosion of productive capital”
This blog is a review of an article by Emma Duncan published in The Times on January 7th 2022, headed: “Let’s turn Covid and Brexit to our advantage” – an eminently sensible idea. However, the way in which this is … Continue reading
Do dividends pay our pensions?
Remember stakeholder economics? It’s been a long time since Will Hutton introduced us to the idea of a stakeholder. Back in the last century, the Blairite vision was for a society where the needs of a shareholder were balanced with … Continue reading
Are investment consultants worth the money?
Robin Powell picks up an article that makes some interesting observations. Investment consultants sit at the top of the food chain. They are responsible for the allocation of pension fund money and are a pre-requisite for running a pension trustee … Continue reading
2022’s the year for lawyers to stop moaning
I’ve just read Pension Expert’s lengthy article “2022-Lawyers-call-for-regulatory-pension-pause“. Rather than a pause in legislation, I’d like to see a pause in moaning – and a focus on simplifying the pension system by focusing on consolidation I have little sympathy … Continue reading
The wellbeing of the elderly is all of our business.
Ros Altmann is right. No civilised country should leave pensioners out in the cold through winter. It’s time to act to ensure the elderly can heat their homes as fuel bills soar https://t.co/VPloQos2nm @yorkshirepost — Ros Altmann (@rosaltmann) January 7, … Continue reading
The secret to Omicron’s success and more – C19-ARG’s Friday report 58
Friday Report: Issue 58 By: John Roberts, Adele Groyer, Matt Fletcher and Dan Ryan www.covid-arg COVID-19 Actuaries Response Group – Learn. Share. Educate. Influence. COVID-19 is still one of the hottest topics for scientific papers and articles. The COVID-19 Actuaries … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, Covid, Covid-19, Nicola Oliver, Stuart McDonald, Vaccine
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A blog on inequality written for Jack Dromey.
Posted in memory of Jack Dromey The Office of National Statistics have produced their 7th update of its wealth and assets survey taking us to the very start of the pandemic in March 2020. These are their five key findings … Continue reading
“The beneficiaries of your pension plan are not the government”.
This phrase is from Maxime Aucoin of Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ). She buys assets on behalf of public pension plans as well as insurance plans and it operates independently from the government, managing over $225bn … Continue reading
PPF gets back to basics with some pension home truths
After a few days having to pick my way through the misunderstandings around our auto-enrolment retirement savings system, I read the PPF’s “Get retirement ready in 2022” with relief. It was good to be guided through a report by people … Continue reading
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The self-employed commonly have very lumpy income streams plus periods of feast and famine. Their lack of income security means…