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Ros Altmann on being Ros Altmann – Today 10.30am

Ros Altmann like Edi Truell and a few other of my friends, is a force for good who gets a fair bit of stick, Neither Ros (nor Edi for that matter) mind much. Being thick-skinned is a matter of course … Continue reading

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Ros Altmann on being Ros Altmann – Tuesday 10.30am

Ros Altmann like Edi Truell and a few other of my friends, is a force for good who gets a fair bit of stick, Neither Ros (nor Edi for that matter) mind much. Being thick-skinned is a matter of course … Continue reading

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“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

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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

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The unintended consequences of pension tax-reform; NB IFS.

Over the weekend I wrote a piece arguing that GPPs are now trapping millions of savers in structures that are largely being abandoned by Government, Regulators, Employers and Pension Providers Ros Altmann, with whom I work to banish the net-pay … Continue reading

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Doesn’t our duty to older consumers extend to online banking?

I listened last night to the Up all Night radio phone  which – despite other topics being available – was dominated by elderly people complaining their local bank branch had been closed. People were taking about 3 hour train and … Continue reading

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“Annuities, the least productive way to deliver pensions” – Ros Altmann

Yesterday’s blog which included Mark Ormston’s numbers on the cost of securing the retirement living standards with annuities, got better read than I expected. And it attracted some interesting comments. The blog set out to show just how much it … Continue reading

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Employers not providers key to worker participation in pensions

Altmann hits out at providers for pension positivity failure https://t.co/5PsvkK6XnS via @profpensions — Ros Altmann (@rosaltmann) December 30, 2022 Ros Altmann is hitting out at workplace pension providers for not selling the benefits of pension saving hard enough. This is … Continue reading

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Treasury deprives the low paid of nine years of savings incentives – with a press release

  After 7 years of campaigning that started when Kate Upcraft identified the problem for the Friends of Auto Enrolment, the Treasury has pulled the rabbit out of the hat , righted the wrongs and tried to cover itself in … Continue reading

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Financial education? It needs more conviction than most of us can muster!

People in the pensions industry are fond of using the phrase “financial education” as if they know the answer and those who aren’t doing what they want to do are financially illiterate.  This is hugely arrogant and largely wrong. People … Continue reading

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