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Pension Mandation and “the irrelevance of the Lords as a talking shop”
Guy Opperman may not be a part of the Labour Government but he understands how governments work and why the protest from those arguing for fiduciary freedom will not be granted the amendment the House of Lords has sent downstairs … Continue reading
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Tagged Guy Opperman, House of Lords, Irrelevent, Labour, Mandation, Pensions, ping pong, Torsten Bell
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A night that is green and pink! Well done Hannah Spencer
The loss of Gorton and Denton is worse than that sounds. Labour not only lost it to Reform, they lost it to both popular departments, the other being Reform UK. To suppose that this has no meaning and is but … Continue reading
David Pitt-Watson – Lord of CDC
David Pitt-Watson – Responsible Investment Expert. Co-founder and former CEO of the Equity Ownership Service and Focus Funds at Federated Hermes I know of nobody who has been so true to his belief that CDC can work for this country … Continue reading
David Pitt-Watson – Lord of CDC
David Pitt-Watson – Responsible Investment Expert. Co-founder and former CEO of the Equity Ownership Service and Focus Funds at Federated Hermes I know of nobody who has been so true to his belief that CDC can work for this country … Continue reading
Conservative economics cut pensions – Jeremy and Tom on one page!
I was chatting with Tom McPhail a few weeks back and he explained to me why the Conservatives were the only party he could support. His argument was that they were the only party who wanted fiscal fairness in society. … Continue reading
Torsten Bell and Alexandra Miles; Social Market Foundation #Labour
Detail is scant but news is that Torsten spoke to a group at Labour Conference on Sunday , a group congregated to talk about pensions and including on a friend of this blog – Alexandra Miles. A little news has … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexandra Miles, Labour, Lavour Party Conference, Liverpool, Pensions, Torsten Bell
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“Change must and can only come from the Government”
From a frequent commentator on this blog, this is “For the Many”. I am sure he will not get over-stressed if I remind myself of a different era of Labour thinking- one his blog wonderfully represents! Change MUST and can … Continue reading
Why Emma Reynolds can help Thames Water and its pensioners.
So far, Government has played nicely with pension funds, allowing them to agree investment strategies that have an eye to long-term growth rather than to regress into “de-risking”. But pension funds are no longer run by well meaning amateurs but … Continue reading
More in common with each other…
I enjoy disagreeing with Steve Groves but I like agreeing with him more. That’s a very simplistic analysis by your standard. 1. Corbyn lost by 3m votes, Starmer won by 3m. 2. Partly as there were fewer parties in the … Continue reading
Why does our MP’s pension scheme not invest in the UK?
The most interesting thing of an interesting article by Patrick Hosking in the Times is not that less than 1% of the MP’s contributory scheme is invested in UK equities but that there is literally “no comment” on this from … Continue reading