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The American financiers that buy-out our pension heritage
Does this sound familiar? It is of course the problem with selling obscure funds to those who consider the “wealth adviser” is acting for themselves not for the financial institutions they work for. As yet the likes of Apollo and … Continue reading
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Tagged Appollo, Blackstone, Pensions, Private credit, US private credit
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Ford – the “not so” British pension risk transfer.
This article asks questions about about the transfer of Pension Risk to America. PRT stands for Pension Risk Transfer. Where there is risk there is profit as well as danger. The profit from transferring the assets of our private … Continue reading
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Tagged Blackstone, buy-in, buy-out, Ford, Pensions, Priovate Equity
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Manufacturing credit defaults? Have we learned nothing from the crash?
If you are an FT subscriber , you can read the story of “the mystery trader who roiled Wall-Street“. When I read the headline , I thought that we’d had a Grauniad-style typo, but “roil” exists, to describe making (a … Continue reading