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Whose (mis)taking my pension?

Image via Wikipedia   In a stunning piece of forensic journalism, the BBC have been reading personal pension disclosures and discovered that someone paying £120,000 over 40 years into an HSBC all...

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Whatever happened to “stakeholder economics”?

When Blair swept to power in 1997, Will Hutton‘s vision of a stakeholder economy was central to New Labour‘s vision. While the idealism of those years is now derided, I prefer it to the negativity of...

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The Regulator Strikes Back – Barclays, fund platforms and the FSA

I quote some of an article by matthew.vincent@ft.com  which is quite brilliant (link here) – I won’t ever write this well! The Financial Times continues to provide the world’s best coverage of...

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Who’s been sleeping in my bed? Shocking stuff on stock lending.

Imagine you have to put your furniture in storage, white goods, carpets, chairs – the lot. You nip off abroad for a couple of years and return to find your furniture still there, you pay your storage...

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The pernicious power of financial advertising

The incendiary resignation letter from Peter Oborne cites the removal of articles from the Telegraph’s website , claiming the articles went because of pressure from HSBC as a major advertiser....

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What’s the point of banks?

HSBC and Standard Chartered are looking at the viability of quitting London for a new home in Asia because a big jump in a tax on UK banks makes staying in Britain increasingly painful. News that the...

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Fuel, effeciency and our pensions!

Tesler, fuel efficiency and performance     Yesterday , Legal and General Investment Management ran a seminar in the City at which asset owners (pension trustees) and asset managers (LGIM) discussed...

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What rights do banking customers still have?

I received a letter out of the blue from Scott Miller, Head of Customer Services at Barclays. It’s a pro-forma and it included a new credit card, if it hadn’t, I’d have not read it. Not so great I...

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Is the Green tide stronger than one man?

  In the past few days the Paris Treaty has been ratified. One man, Donald Trump, has threatened to put the short term interests of his country above the longer term interests of the globe. Neither we...

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Activism over activity – we want effective asset management.

Reading the FCA’s Asset Management Market Study, you’d be tempted to give up on active asset management (to be frank you might to give up on investment funds altogether). Daniel Godfrey has a piece in...

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Is value only in the eye of the beholder?

Yesterday’s blog on the capacity of “value” to simplify pensions has solicited some strong comment and a very interesting debate on linked in I am  interested in the comments of Simon Ellis who has...

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HSBC tells us the problem – CDC gives us the solution.

  The HSBC master trust has teemed up with Andrew Clare of Bayes Business School and Hymans Robertson to produce a report that tells us we currently have no good way of turning the pots we build up...

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No tomorrow for HSBC’s Tomorrow Master Trust

Jo Cumbo broke the news that HSBC was winding up its master trust in the FT yesterday. The scoop was getting HSBC to make a statement to that affect, the market has known for some time. HSBC confirmed...

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