Labour's Public Pension Reform Plans.. Kicking the crisis back into the long grass...?
Labour's proposed overhaul of the UK's pension system consists of a plan to redirect a significant portion of public sector pension funds into into high-growth UK companies and infrastructure projects.
Supporters see this plan as a long-needed antidote to the lack of any long term investment planning. Britain's pension funds — among the world's largest — invest surprisingly little in British businesses. Rather than funding UK innovation and growth, a lot of this capital goes overseas or into low-risk, low-growth assets. With what result? A steady conveyor belt of ambitious UK start-ups, sold to foreign buyers before they can scale on British shores.
An example is the fast-growing life sciences firm CMR Surgical, based in Cambridge. Despite all its promise, it recently indicated an exit abroad — the same destiny that has awaited more than 2,600 other UK firms over the past decade. Hutton's argument is that Britain will only take seriously the creation of the next AstraZeneca if it invests more capital in younger companies. Labour's pension reforms are designed to do exactly that, by consolidating smaller schemes into "mega-funds" with the power and the size to make big, long-term investments in British business.
For supporters redirecting UK pension funds into such companies is smart capitalism, why not use those currently underutilised mega billions to boost British business...
But the risks?
From a more Liberal perspective, the risk of the above is that it risks turning the pension system into a political slush fund, whereby future governments can direct savings towards favoured projects and ideological causes. And far from reducing the burden on the taxpayer, the reforms could increase public liabilities over the longer term.
There is also the fact that the government has a £5 trillion future-liability in terms of public sector pension commitments over next 60 years — which are mostly unfunded and far more generous than anything that most private-sector workers can expect.
The temptation might be to deliberately underfund these future pensions in the hope that increased growth will make everything OK 30 years down the line.
Final thoughts...
It's important I think to consider the government's desire to unleash Britain's current public sector pension wealth into national infrastructure projects in the context of future liabilities they have no idea how to fund.
Doing this I think helps us understand their true motive - batting back problems into the long grass where we can't see them and so don't have to think about them.
Or maybe given that the pension shit is going to hit the fan at some point now if we do nothing it's better to throw the dice in the hope that'll it'll all maybe be OK anyways?
That at least is in fitting with global politics ATM!
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If future administrations take charge of steering these funds towards preferred projects or ideological agendas, we might witness pensions being utilized as instruments for political purposes instead of ensuring retirements.
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I'm not a huge fan of the idea personally!
I've heard of pensions talked of as a time bomb for a while. People are living longer and want a decent life as life gets more expensive. I'm glad I've paid into my pensions for years.
I think a time bomb is maybe the wrong analogy... it's more like a gradual drift downwards so everyone's getting less and lees back for what they put in!
Here in Australia you have to choose carefully what fund your money is in, for us in particular we worry about investments in arms. It's always a gamble. I'm just going to be dirt poor I think.
Even with the public pension? My teacher's pension is just taken care of, inflation linked. Easy!
We don't have public pensions... Not in that way. It's linked to salary, but we choose the fund. Employer contributes a percentage.
Do you have a state pension even?
We have superannuation - probably easier you Google it as you'll be able to make more sense of it than my garbled explanation!
But yes we have pension as well. Means tested. Most rely on super if they can. An issue for single woman, low income earners etc
a bit more complicated but a self managed super fund is the best option as you are fully in control of ur investment
Sounds like an interesting idea for sure!
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You wield downvotes like a weapon, striking indiscriminately at whoever displeases you, whenever it suits your whim. And why? Why do you call people names as though their humanity is secondary to your ego? Is this how you justify your behavior—to diminish others so they might seem less worthy of fairness? You claim disdain for AI on Hive, yet your inner circle freely employs it without consequence. No downvotes for them, only for those outside your charmed circle. Tell us, why are you so selective in whom you punish and whom you protect?
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SO PLEASE STOP. It’s time to do what’s right for Hive and its community. Why cling to practices that harm others? Power down, step away, and let Hive thrive as it was meant to. You bring nothing positive to this ecosystem.
THOSE WHO ARE WATCHING—THIS COULD HAPPEN TO YOU.
PLEASE STOP.
@themarkymark, Can You Explain Why the Bilpcoin Team’s Accounts Are on Your Blacklist?
@themarkymark We understand you’re a fan of data—so are we. After all, data is king, and when it comes to blockchain, transactions don’t lie and can’t be changed.
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