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Are the American 401(K) participants dreaming what Donald Trump’s dreaming?
In last night’s rambling self-promotion by President Trump, we heard among other things of a huge increase in the amount that is in the 401K saver’s plans- across America I was reminded that Jack Towarnicky promised us his work that … Continue reading
Has “fiduciary” been captured by the “pension woke”?
I recently published a letter by 250 CEOs of companies asking that investment into UK companies come from pension funds, I didn’t realise this had been organised by the London Stock Exchange but now I can state that it does … Continue reading
A big question of Commonwealth emerges in our pension investment
The FT examines the empathy between Canada and British investment of pension schemes. In an article this morning with London’s Mary McDougall and Ilya Gridneff in Toronto Like the UK, Canada has been examining how to channel more pension assets to … Continue reading
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Tagged Australia, Business, Canada, Commonwealth, DWP, Financial services, ft, pension playpen, Pensions, Retirement, USA
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Louise Farrand and Mark Austin around the world for DCIF
In Louise Farrand we have a communication superstar. This wrap up of every country’s pension system compared against each other through the DCIF podcast is well worth listening to. Mark Austin speaks with Louise through 45 minutes of adventures with … Continue reading
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Tagged Australia, DCIF, Iceland, Louise Farrand, Mark Austin, Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, USA
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There’s only two Henry Tappers! (out of 800m active users of Linked in!)
It is difficult to get out of Microsoft (owners of Linkedin) how many active users there are. John Espirian reckons there are just under 800m “active” but 1.1 billion accounts. A lot (300m) of dead people, people on more than … Continue reading
Canada and Denmark have their own views of how to invest their pensions.
Free trade causes a virtuous circle in the long run between world trade and world GDP. Trade boosts GDP, which in turn spurs trade; and so on. The new equilibrium of the virtuous circle is captured by the long run … Continue reading
Are women winning it for Harris?
The spread on the betting exchanges between Trump and Harris continue to tighten but money continues to back Harris as the impact of recent interventions to bolster Trump’s odds dilute According to Robert Armstrong, in this morning’s Unhedged, … Continue reading
Would our Government bail out the depositors of a badly run bank?
Behind the phrase “moral hazard” which is being heavily used in relation to the Fed and SVB, is the question posed by the title of this blog. Full on capitalism allows poorly run banks to fail and tells depositors it … Continue reading
Reintroducing pensions to the USA
The American Department of Labor is demanding that regulated sponsors of their workplace pensions convert participants’ account balances into an estimated monthly income stream at retirement. This follows primary regulation in Congress last year know as the SECURE Act Using … Continue reading
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Investing can now be “free” – here’s how.
I was sitting in a room of a leading asset manager yesterday listening to the yada yada. I’d needlessly put myself under a non-disclosure agreement but it was clear that there was no real news, so I thought I’d mention … Continue reading
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Tagged FCA, Fidelity, fund management, Investment, pensions, Technology, USA, Value for Money, Work
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