Tag Archives: Deutsche Bank

“My word is my Eurobond” – pensions without banks

Posted on June 17, 2013 by

We have become so obsessed with the paradigm created by Megabank that we consider a “limited level of positive return..guaranteed” something to aspire to. Continue reading →

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More pensions nonsense from the “investment community”

Posted on April 18, 2012 by

  How have have the people who invest pension funds become so out of touch with the people who retire from them? This question occurred to me several times yesterday as I listened to a large numbers of charming and intelligent people … Continue reading →

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General Melchett revisited

Posted on May 17, 2011 by

An interesting picture is beginning to emerge which suggests that the subjective satisfaction scores given by schemes in relation to their consultant may be inversely related to the value delivered through default solution design Continue reading →

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