"prefers to compare the returns with a liability proxy (a mixture of gilt maturities)" Are those Index-Linked gilts, given that…
I agree the major problem with DC is that it has been designed as a savings plan not to provide…
Oh, and I think this confusion leading to DB being viewed as a pot by members is an unintended consequence…
I think the FT critic has fundamentally misunderstood what DB schemes are designed to do and how they differ from…
Tag Archives: growth
Dan Mikulskis and Martin Lewis have a simple story, an investment message!
This needed to be said. The article in question can be read from here Dan talks of DC master trusts but you could have got roughly the same returns whether you were invested in a the default of a DC … Continue reading
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Tagged Dan mikulskis, growth, Martin Lewis, National Employment Savings Trust, Pensions, Peoples Pension, shares
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The mill wheel that grinds the flour that makes the bread
I am pleased to read Ed Goodchild’s fine words on the dawning of the last weekend of autumn of 2025! I know his technology and I know how he applies himself to grow the businesses he servces. More pleased still … Continue reading
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Tagged Age, application, Ed Goodchild, Grow, growth, hard work, SME, Technology
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Coal Staff – why aren’t we shouting from the rooftops this great news?
I am very pleased that the Government has agreed to pay the surplus in this pension scheme to members. Well done Mark Walker and the investment team who have kept the coal workers invested in growth (mainly in … Continue reading
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Tagged BCSSS, Budgeet, Economic growth, equities, growth, Mineworker, Surplus
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We don’t need austerity, we need to invest and grow
Martin Woolf has produced an econium to growth and posted it in the FT. People care about their standard of living. Democracy is simply far stronger if it is possible for everybody to become better off. Growth provides that. … Continue reading
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Tagged #pensions, Business, Ecopnium, Employment, Government, growth, Investment, Martin Woolf, pension, Pensions, Tax, Treasury, workplace Pensions
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FT struggles to find experts to oppose this idea
It is hard to find a story about Government looking to pension funds to accelerate the near non-existent growth in the UK economy. It is so clear that the public want to invest more in the UK, we want better … Continue reading
Relevant to savings growing again – TISA have a spirit I haven’t seen in a while!
Tisa has intrigued me, I encountered it first time through its first CEO Tony Vine-Lott at the beginning of the century and now I had the chance to reinvest my imagination with Carol Knight. I asked yesterday whether TISA were … Continue reading
Expectations of “pay” from pension funds.
I have spent a wonderful couple of days with my mother in Dorset and while I have been away from work , I have been thinking about what we can expect from our retirement saving. What is the right … Continue reading
Fiscal tweaks won’t solve Britain’s growth (or pension) problem
You will excuse me for banging on abo0ut the word “growth“, especially as an ode to “growth” has just been published. But Martin Wolf in the FT has called on Government to abandon six-monthly fiscal tweaking and focus on getting … Continue reading
“Stop focussing on budgets, concentrate on investment” – Reeves is right
Given the threat posed to her precarious fiscal plan by sluggish growth, Reeves has told the Treasury to stop focusing on Budgets and concentrate on boosting investment instead. It is necessary to get on with it. We cannot regulate … Continue reading
Social Care, Pensions and Growth
I am pleased to see the Government taking a proper view on how we support the elderly with social care. Let us not mistake the time it will take to come up with sensible changes with some view of Government … Continue reading
Scheme actuaries use a nominal gilt yield curve, which they assert directly matches the currency and inflation exposure of those…