Tag Archives: growth
“No more dithering” – Ros gets her bill!
A private members bill from Baroness Ros Altmann to remove investment companies from the EU’s AIFMD legislation will have its first reading on 22 November. A bill to rectify issues with cost disclosure rules for investment trusts has … Continue reading
Misleading cost disclosures are reducing investments in alternative energy and harming UK growth- Altmann
This blog is written by Ros Altmann and republished with her permission. She considers the plight of investment companies (investment trusts) , “an emergency situation”. It is published on Ros’ blog UK investment Companies are ready-made for kick-starting pension investment … Continue reading
Industry mindset shift needed to deliver value for pension savers
12 July 2023 / Guest post from Nausicaa Delfas, CEO of the Pensions Regulator Investing for a pension is often the only and largest investment people make. Savers rely on the pension system working as hard as it can to … Continue reading
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Tagged Assests, CEO, DB, Funding Code, growth, Mindset, Nausicaa Delfas, Pensions, TPR
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Being Objective about Liability Driven Investment
Following our blog on the costs of LDI ( https://henrytapper.com/2023/03/25/the-costs-of-ldi-keating-and-clacher/ ), we received a comment which said: “To be objective don’t you have to look at the aggregate round trip? i.e., money made from LDI since the start to … Continue reading
ONS numbers show how “de-risking” did for growth
While most of us would see weight loss as a good thing, it can cause harm – especially when pursued fanatically. In this blog I look at latest Government figures and ask whether pension schemes are losing weight in the … Continue reading
This may be the last week I can grow my linked in connections.
I currently have over29,900 linked in connections , 28,500 of whom follow me. I have recently been getting messages from Linked in reminding me LinkedIn members can have up to 30,000 1st-degree connections. To ensure an optimal experience on LinkedIn, … Continue reading
Pensions or growth? Or both?
In 2022, attempts to de-risk UK DB pensions put the Government’s borrowing capacity in peril and led to an increase in borrowing costs for most UK citizens who now pay a “moron premium” on money lent to them. I challenge … Continue reading
The Funded Pension System – as an engine of economic growth – has hit the buffers.
In a major article , labelled an FT “big read, Jo Cumbo and Jonathan Ely , examine the LDI crisis and try to establish how pension schemes will change the way they invest. In its central session it contains … Continue reading
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Tagged ft, growth, jo cumbo, Lauira Trott], pension minister, Pensions
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Should our appetite for growth reduce with age?
I hear a lot about “appetite for risk” but nothing about “appetite for growth”. We are currently experiencing high inflation , some would say stagflation. Stagflation is when things cost more but we don’t produce more – so don’t … Continue reading