Tag Archives: Ros Altmann
Ros Altmann has coffee with us Tuesday – “conversation with conviction”
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 and close to ours too. With … Continue reading
PPF – 20 years old – memories of a child and teenage pension!
As part of our 20th anniversary celebrations, our colleagues have been sharing some of their memories from their time at the PPF. We’d love to hear your stories, memories and pictures too! Tag us and use the hashtag #PPF20 pic.twitter.com/TJyCl7eHmz … Continue reading
CCI consultation response and Listed Closed-ended Investment Companies (LCICs) – short explanation from Altmann and Bowles
The FCA has laid out its suggestions for the new Consumer Composite Investment Rules which will replace old EU law. The part we are addressing is the ongoing saga of misrepresentation of costs/expenses for Listed Closed-ended Investment Companies. The topic … Continue reading
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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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