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Paul Walter

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

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

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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:

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David Thorpe

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.
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  • Tim
    Hywel - the source of the "Norwegian gas is cleaner than UK gas" is here - https://www.petro-online.com/news/fuel-for-thought/13/sp-global/two-thirds-of-uk-and-...
  • Jason Connor
    No that was Nick Clegg in full flow on tuition fees....
  • Jason Connor
    I couldn't agree more with the first 3 posts. I heard a figure of 75% of households still use gas. The council stopped installing heat pumps on my estate as the...
  • Hywel
    "According to the regulator’s own figures, pipeline gas from Norway is produced with less than a third of the emissions of Britain’s North Sea output." W...
  • Chloe
    Well said David. There are 20 million gas boilers in the UK & not everyone has a spare few grand to change to heat pumps or have a suitable system that enab...