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Can British pension funds invest in Britain as their Australian counterparts do?

If it won’t come from up here, it’s going to be from somewhere and the new “super unit” will start by getting it from down under. This new unit “will pave the way for vital investment into key UK projects”, … Continue reading

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The charge cap was far greater interference than investment mandation.

It would be very easy to nod smugly from within the pension bubble where everything we do is out of fiduciary duty. But outside the bubble fiduciary duty is not a phrase that many people understand and certainly not something … Continue reading

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The Bank of England fails to invest any of its £3.5bn staff pension for UK growth

This is a comment from my recent blog on the BOE and PRA’s open criticism of the DWP’s arguments for CDC. The most important criticism of the BoE pension fund is that it is not aligned with the government’s growth … Continue reading

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