Tag Archives: Long Term Assets

Labour’s “securenomics” spell Long Term Assets not Life Time Allowance

If Edmund Truell had been the next Labour Chancellor (unlikely), I would have expected him to have produced a pension policy paper called “Financing Growth”. Four years ago, as the Labour party recovered from one of its worst election defeats, … Continue reading

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£626,000,000,000 of our retirement money was lost in the financial markets last year.

Yes, I know that Pension Scheme liabilities are projected to be lower by more than £626,000,000,000, but you can’t eat projections. The money that was lost by UK DB pensions last year is gone. It has been collected by those … Continue reading

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2023 is not an hour old before pensions hit the headlines

The first thing I read in 2023 was the lead story by Josephine Cmubo in the new year’s day edition of the Financial Times. Her article reignites the fires flaming before the Christmas break over the purpose of pension scheme … Continue reading

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