Tag Archives: pension funds

Woodford – a lesson in hubris, both for individuals and councils

By Paul Walter | Wed 16th October 2019 - 1:30 pm

Embed from Getty Images
The story of the Woodford Equity Income fund should give investors great pause for thought concerning how many eggs to put in one particular basket.

The Guardian reports:

Continue reading »

Posted in Op-eds | Also tagged investment and kent county council | 4 Comments

How to prevent a repeat of the Carillion catastrophe

By David Thorpe | Wed 24th January 2018 - 10:25 am

Whenever a rather technical public policy question pokes its nose out into the wide world of mass public interest a vacuum is created, a vacuum quickly filled with a gamut on nonsense and conspiracy theory.

The collapse of the Carillion has prompted just such fits of hysteria, but while I don’t particularly care that a private company has gone out of business, the issue of the pension fund liabilities is one that will recur many more times for policy makers in the UK as a direct consequence of economic policies pursued since 2007.

Continue reading »

Posted in Op-eds | Also tagged carillon | 40 Comments

Most Read

Op-eds

Mathew on Monday: Ann Widdecombe, robust debate and the need to disagree agreeably (Mathew Hulbert)
Tom Arms’ World Review (Tom Arms)
Observations of an Expat: Visions of America (Tom Arms)
Championing stronger AI resilience: Take-away from ALDE Congress 2026 (Larry Ngan)
Introducing The Grimond Society (Jack Meredith)

Advert

Recent Comments

David Raw
Agree with Mick Taylor, but would also suggest Count Binface is no mug..... he's an Oxford graduate in classics and classical languages, literatures and linguis...
Mick Taylor
Some posters on here are real killjoys. If Binface were to beat Farage it would end Farage's political career. And let's face it, Binface could hardly be a wors...
Jana
A thought just occurred - maybe Farage was hoping to have no serious competition in this by-election as it always his party activists to canvass extensively whi...
David Raw
When a person living within the historical territory of the Duchy of Cornwall dies without a valid will (i.e. intestate) and with no surviving relatives, their ...
Paul Walter
I primarily wrote this piece as a travel blog. But for clarity, while I admire the independence (current overall status) of the Isle of Man, I support a revi...