Tag Archives: growth
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
Workplace Pension review – investment first – adequacy later.
Continuing at break-neck pace up and to the summer recess, the Labour Government has announced a staged review of pensions. Speaking on Laura Kuenssberg’s Sunday morning show, Rachel Reeves stressed that her interest in pensions is about getting people more … Continue reading
Keating casts doubt on pensions as engines for growth
Investment and Growth Con Keating Introduction The exhortations for pension funds to invest for growth have been widely publicised in recent years. It has been, and remains, government policy. Unfortunately, ‘growth’ investment seems to have been interpreted in … Continue reading
I don’t want my money sitting in the Bank (of England)
That Toby Nangle is a clever chap, I have been trying to work out what he is going on about in the FT all day and think I’ve got the hang of it. To paraphrase and precis.. While the … Continue reading
Is the Pension Regulator excluded from Smarter Regulation?
Kemi Badenoch has set before parliament a white paper on regulation I had hoped to find out an outsider’s view of the Pensions Regulator but was disappointed. TPR is not within scope of the recent White Paper. This seems to … Continue reading
Jeremy’s tax bargain on inheritance tax and pensions
In an interview with the BBC, Mr Hunt refused to rule out a cut to inheritance tax, saying: “The best way that we can reduce the tax burden for everyone is to grow the economy.” If there is one thing … Continue reading