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Winning your league of one- no way to VFM! Self validation can defraud those who pay.
Thanks to Aron Muralidhar for pointing out that what can go on in Canada, can go on in the USA, my point being that benchmarks must be refereed by officials not paid by the team. We long to think that … Continue reading
It happened in Canada, it could happen here. How scale gives opportunity to scam
A friend points me to a post by a Canadian who has quite a story to tell. The problem is that when a successful organisation (in this case the investment house CPP) get to manage a fund this large, they … Continue reading
Canadian retirement challenges seem rather like the UK’s!
We in Britain are asking the same thing as Roman Kosarenko in Canada. It is one thing to have saved a lot of money, another have the security in later years of a reasonable income. All countries who abandon some … Continue reading
A big question of Commonwealth emerges in our pension investment
The FT examines the empathy between Canada and British investment of pension schemes. In an article this morning with London’s Mary McDougall and Ilya Gridneff in Toronto Like the UK, Canada has been examining how to channel more pension assets to … Continue reading
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Tagged Australia, Business, Canada, Commonwealth, DWP, Financial services, ft, pension playpen, Pensions, Retirement, USA
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A fillip for pensions – mimicking Canada; Reeves pushes for UK investment
I’m picking up on an FT story this morning as I have been following this news live through Mary and Greg McClymont. You can read the story here Rachel Reeves will launch an initiative next week with 20 of … Continue reading
The Michelle and Morten show at parliament- impressive but to the point?
The General Committee’s meetings with 23 “experts” has something a little celebratory about it. This one with Michelle Ostermann and Brightwell’s Morten Nilsson has got a TV “couples show” written all over it. This is Michelle introducing herself but she … Continue reading
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Tagged Brightwell, BT, Canada, consolidation, Denmark, Michelle, Morten, pension, ppf
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Sizewell C ownership matters to me! Pleased a pension’s involved but why Canadian?
Until yesterday, I had been told, as had all FT readers, that our new Sizewell C energy project would be externally financed chiefly by Brookfield – a Canadian investment manager. My thoughts on reading this was that if I want … Continue reading
The trouble with illiquidity – Woodford 2.0?
I am not sure why I was invited to this very eminent salon event in Kings College. It was good to hear some high level thoughts on private assets and their increasing importance as listed assets are harder or asset … Continue reading
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Tagged Canada, illiquid, Nangle, Nick Spence, Pensions, William Bourne]
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What do Canadians see in Britain that we don’t!
I’ve quoted this headline from Julian Bovill as it is relevant. This is from the FT courtesy of Mary McDougall Canada’s second-largest pension fund plans to invest more than £8bn in the UK over the next five years, in a … Continue reading
Canada and Denmark have their own views of how to invest their pensions.
Free trade causes a virtuous circle in the long run between world trade and world GDP. Trade boosts GDP, which in turn spurs trade; and so on. The new equilibrium of the virtuous circle is captured by the long run … Continue reading