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The peril of private market investments to purchasers of retail funds
This article was first published by Robin and Mark here. Incentives Are Dangerously Aligned in Private Markets The Speculative Supply Chain is Operating at Full Capacity Mark Higgins, CFA, CFP Dec 23, 2025 “Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what … Continue reading
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Tagged alignment, incentives, Mark Higgins, private markets, Robin Powell
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Pension tax-relief needs re-branding as “matching”.
We are due after July 4th, a general review of pensions, which has got the big guns at the IFS excited and top gun- Steve Webb (ex IFS) very excited indeed. So excited that he has gone to press (FT … Continue reading
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Tagged auto enrolment, DWP, incentives, pension, Pension new, Pensions, politics, Retirement, Steve Webb, tax-relief
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What is the point (of tax-relief)?
A tired (and possibly emotional) actuary sends me a late night mail which starts.. What is the tax relief deal? Govt in effect borrows money over 40 years on average to invest in whatever DC investors invest in and … Continue reading
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Tagged auto enrolment, bread, incentives, pensions, tax relief, Titanic
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The savings paradox – a crux of trust!
The more people save, the less we seem to be saving. This seems to be the paradox facing auto-enrolment. And if the doomsters contemplating the impending changes to tax relief are right, not only will auto-enrolment reduce per capita spend … Continue reading
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Tagged incentives, pensions, saving rates, Tax, trust, workplace Pensions
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Why I want to be old – rich and pay no tax!
There’s a famous story, now fading from popular memory about Strand, a brand of cigarettes in the sixties. Strand came out with a strap-line “you’re never alone with a Strand” It killed the brand stone-dead. People associated smoking a Strand … Continue reading
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Tagged Bogoff, George Osborne, incentives, pensions, retirement income, Save, Saving, Spend, Tax, tax deductions, tax relief
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This scaremongering on auto-enrolment has to stop!
Scaremongering Scaremongering sells newspapers and we love to be afraid. It is easy to write stories that play on our fears, because they are the ones we want to read. But that doesn’t make scaremongering alright, just as it doesn’t … Continue reading