Financial services are the focal point of the debate about Britain’s future in the EU. The sovereign debt and banking crises have accelerated integration in the Eurozone, a trend often seen as alien to British interests. The position of the City as the main financial services centre in Europe has become uncertain. [Read more…]
Threat to pensions
April 10, 2012 By 2 Comments
In some countries – Argentina, Hungary, Portugal – governments have already expropriated private-sector pension funds as a means of dealing with serious financial problems. There are “warning tremors” that such policies of seizure could spread to developed nations, warns FT commentator Tony Jackson. [Read more…]
A New Age Of Personal Responsibility
November 30, 2011 By 1 Comment
Britain’s workforce needs “a new age of personal responsibility” to avert the looming pensions crisis, the latest Friends Life Visions of Britain 2020 report, entitled “Pensions: The Root Problem”, warns today. [Read more…]
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