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Do YOU have a fantasy amendment for the Pension Schemes Bill? Send in your thoughts!
We are entering a fallow period for work and you may be looking for something meaningful to do between now and Monday January 5th when we start again in earnest. The last pension act followed considerable public disorder, the photo … Continue reading
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Tagged Opperman, parliament, Pension schemes Act, Pensions, Ros Altmann, Torsten Bell
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Why are investment trusts excluded from the Pension Schemes Bill?
William MacLeod Speaking in the House of Lords today during the Pensions Schemes Bill second reading both Baroness Ros Altmann and Baroness Sharon Bowles , asked a very simple question: Why have listed investment companies been excluded from the Bill? … Continue reading
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Tagged corporate governance, corporate risk, dc pensions, Employment, FCA, Financial services, Investment, Pensions, politics, Ros Altmann, Sharon Bowles, Treasury
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A man and a woman making sense of investment for retirement
I wish I’d put it as well as this man has I’d wish I’d put it as well as this woman has UK businesses are facing many headwinds, but revitalising economic growth can help them overcome barriers to successful expansion. … Continue reading
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Tagged Business and Economy, corporate risk, dc pensions, Defined benefit pension plan, DWP, Government, Pension new, Pensions, Retirement, Ros Altmann, Steve Fine
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Ros Altmann in 2020 on the Pension Action Group’s progress to that date
It has been over 5 years since I published this blog on the Pensions Action Group. My blog is not worth a great deal of time and I enjoy it for a picture I took on the stripper’s beach in … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Young, DB, Government, pension, ppf, Retirement, Ros Altmann
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Schroders talk of the importance of transparent stock markets in the UK.
I am very pleased to see a story on the importance of our stock markets to our economic well-being. A couple of weeks back the London Stock Exchange organised a group of the CEOs of companies quoted on its tiers … Continue reading
Investment Companies – heartbeat of FTSE 250 – forgotten by Pension Schemes Bill – Altmann
This is an excellent post . I will leave Ros and to make the point. Thanks William Macleod I too am surprised that promoting Investment Companies (or Trusts) is not part of the Bill’s intention to increase UK growth stocks … Continue reading
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Tagged 'investment trusts, Investment companies, pension, Pension Schemes Bill, Ros Altmann
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Knowing you’re dying before your state pension age is tough but…
It is actually an expense to read this article as it sits behind the i newspaper’s paywall. I decided to sign up to the paper (can I call it that) because I am genuinely interested in the argument for paying … Continue reading
Pension freedoms don’t work for the dead, pensions are for the living!
I come at the issue rather differently than Ros who is keen on protecting retirement wealth as a haven for those with inheritance tax problems. Well I don’t think this is top of the list of Government priorities despite there … Continue reading
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Tagged annuity, pension freedom, Ros Altmann, Sir Steve Webb, Steve Webb
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“Conversation with conviction”- Altmann and the PlayPen mob- today!
Well it looks like Ros and I will be in conversation but I suspect that the usual crew will want to be involved as Ros will be sticking to topics close to her heart andto ours too. We got this … Continue reading