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Gold-plated pension promises and the insecure young

12 October 2016Articles, PensionsBHS, FTSE All-share, inequality, pensions, public policy, UK TreasuryNick Dunbar

QE has driven corporate pension liabilities sky-high, and MPs are considering softening inflation-linked promises amid complaints over generational inequality. But British companies’ ever-increasing dividends makes such a move politically tricky.

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Gordon’s synthetic bad bank

12 February 2009ArticlesAsset Protection Scheme, CDOs, CDSs, Gordon Brown, UK TreasuryNick Dunbar

Risky Finance 20 January 2009 The UK Treasury says it has avoided setting up a 'bad bank' to buy up toxic or hard-to-value assets from banks. Instead it has come up with the asset protection scheme (APS), an insurance mechanism intended to jump start the UK's moribund loan markets without the need to bulk up…

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