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Revival of pension investment as pension buyout deals slow.
The FT kick off the week reporting something that you’ve been reading on this blog and in the pension trade press, the flow of pensions to insurance annuities is slowing as the size of buy-ins and buy-outs slows. Thanks Mary … Continue reading
Us older folk don’t want the world (or even Greenland).
Thanks to Jonathan Guthrie for lighting up a wet and windy January morning when the thought of a self-assessment hangs over me and I suspect many other older folk. Here is a ray of light! I am not retired but … Continue reading
Why it’s easier for bankers to do private credit – but is it better for the rest of us?
Doubt has been shed on the objectivity of the discussions in the House of Lords. They’ve been carried on by former partners of City Solicitors. My correspondents Tim Simpson and Byron McKeeby have been going at each other over selective discussing … Continue reading
Trust the value of your investments in private markets?
In retail it’s called “evergreen” in institutional it’s called “continuation”, when I was young it was called “churning”. What it involves transactions that create liquidity for those who want cash from their investment, fees for the managers and continued support … Continue reading
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Can we pipe down and let Royal Mail workers get on with building and getting their pension?
If this is the way that Royal Mail allows the message to seep out to its 110,000 members, then “doh”! I hope that it is mad at the FT – as I am. The first six months of its CDC … Continue reading
“Yet to buyers” and “propertied pensioners”; we should have the spaces we need
Martin Arnold brings the pensioner together with the first time buyer in this fascinating article. He is talking in the FT about the work of the FCA, an organisation that is really getting its act together. It [FCA] also plans … Continue reading
An AI bubble popping? The FT expect one, I want a pension not a pot!
Not one but two pension journalists pick up the cudgels and go for Artificial Intelligence as a bubble to blow up. This of course matters to most British savers who are invested in the USA, in the 7 mega stocks … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, CDC, DWP, ft, kirk, Mary Macdougall, McDougall, Nasdaq, National Employment Savings Trust, NEST
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This will be a budget that rewards wealth management.
The FT and Emma Dunkley (today) send me an email that occasionally hits the mark. I do not stand for wealth management, there are many who do and I am pleased they are being promoted by the Budget to invest … Continue reading
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Schroders talk of the importance of transparent stock markets in the UK.
I am very pleased to see a story on the importance of our stock markets to our economic well-being. A couple of weeks back the London Stock Exchange organised a group of the CEOs of companies quoted on its tiers … Continue reading
A dozen or a baker’s dozen for arguments for and against WASPI (pt. 94)
Well I see no point either… Tom’s arguments are laid out in the Times and are straightforward. I mark agreement green “agree”, orange “maybe” and “red” , I don’t agree. Overall, I can’t agree with the Government wasting more time … Continue reading