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ONS – bosses see pensions as “just a perk”, “taxation not covenant”.
The ONS has produced a revealing chart that the FT has improved. It shows that while employers are putting more into auto-enrolled workplace pensions, they are putting less into Defined Benefit pensions for a number of reasons (none of … Continue reading
Dutch and British pensions – step towards growing economies
The publication in question is actually about Dutch relaxation of guarantees on benefits allowing pension schemes to invest more adventurously. Mary McDougall may not yet be ready to follow her predecessor, Jo Cumbo, who has no time for replacing safeguards … Continue reading
Defending the defenceless is ethical; the money’s in my pension fund!
The FT, like the Telegraph, are keen to talk up the adamant attitude of People’s Pension and Nest to run ethical funds that do not invest in defence stocks. This despite calls from 100 Labour MPs to increase fund investment … Continue reading
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People’s sack State Street for all but a slither of its £33bn “pension”
If there’s a shock headline for the investment community it’s the news from Mary McDougall in today’s FT. More later in the day but as the sub-line says, this will be a shake up for American investment managers wanting to … Continue reading
Spend your pension and have a bit of fun
Don’t spend your pension last Don’t spend your pension first Spend your pension. I like Moira O’Neil, she speaks to her readership. FT readers have pensions and most are wealthy. Many have advisers who are having to rethink their wisdom … Continue reading
Will LGPS consolidation eat UK fund management?
You can take Toby Nangle out of Threadneedle but you can’t take funds out of the man. In contemplating the Chancellor’s express ambition to get the £360 431 bn into a single pot under the proxy-management of the Treasury, Toby starts … Continue reading
Picking through the rubble – Robert Armstrong on yesterday’s rout
For those who don’t have an FT subscription, the daily emails from Robert Armstrong , making sense of markets, may be a mystery. For those who get these emails, there is no need to listen , read or watch further … Continue reading
The disenfranchisement of the right by first past the post.
By far away the most interesting piece of election analysis is in this week’s FT. We are so used to reading about the Liberals being squeezed by the first past the post electoral system that it comes as a shock … Continue reading
Mr Farage taps the banks for £35bn – as predicted on this blog.
Edi Truell tells me that a few weeks back, he sat next to Andrew Bailey and Nick Lyons and suggested to the Guvnor he might like to divert some of his discretionary interest payments made on the QE debt to … Continue reading
Jo Cumbo – we’re missing you!
An homage to to the Financial Times Global Pension Correspondent is due. March 26th was when Jo last posted in the FT , since when Jo has been in Australia, deservedly remote from the discordant clamour of Britain’s pension scene. … Continue reading