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- Debate rages on as Turner steps aside.(Scott Dolfi, chief executive of GE Life)
- Lord Turner's 45-page final report has been broadly welcomed by the industry, but some fundamental details remain contentious. Lord Turner's 45-page final report has been broadly welcomed by the industry, but some fundamental details remain contentious.
- Research articles 2006-04-13
- Turner's proposals 'will damage millions'
- Four of the UK's biggest life insurers attacked the Government's proposed pension reforms yesterday, claiming plans to compel employers to contribute to their staff's retirement savings would result in millions of people being worse off in their old age. Aegon, AXA, Scottish Widows and Standard Life said...
- Research articles 2006-08-18
- Market structure no longer fits the bill
- Just as he has done in the financial services industry, Lord Turner is challenging free-market orthodoxy as it applies to energy policy. Britain has one of the most liberalised energy markets in the world, with no controls on wholesale or retail prices, and a large number of competing suppliers. Lord...
- News items 2009-10-11
- CBI boss Richard Lambert stands up for the City
- Richard Lambert, Director-General of the CBI, the employers' body, last night rebuked Lord Turner of Ecchinswell, chairman of the Financial Services Authority, FSA for his assertion that some bankers are socially useless. "In a free society, it's not the job of a politician — or, for that matter, of a...
- News items 2009-09-03
- No Bonus Tax, Let the Market Decide
- Rather that propose taxes on transactions to bring down bankers' bonuses, Britain's financial regulator, Lord Turner, should ask why competition is not forcing down City fees and pay. The free market is not working in the Square Mile. There is no shortage of investment banks -- unlike...
- Blog posts 2009-08-27
- City battlelines drawn over 'living wills'
- City advisers on Thursday sought to fend off a proposal to force banks to simplify their legal structures, saying reforms mooted by Lord Turner, chairman of the Financial Services Authority, would harm the competitiveness of the British industry. But the idea was greeted with support from some bankers and analysts,...
- News items 2009-09-03
- A Blueprint for Banking Reform
- There will be plenty of villains when Financial Services Authority chairman Lord Turner reveals his reform of regulation later this week. Credit-rating agencies, hedge funds, complex financial products, proprietary traders and excessive pay will all be pilloried. But it is imperative Turner reserves some blame for the watchdog he...
- Blog posts 2009-03-16
- UK experiment raises prospect of new asset class
- UK regulators have embarked on an experiment that could redefine the way banks are financed. As part of a £21bn capital raising, Lloyds Banking Group, in which the government has a 43 per cent stake, launched an offer for holders of about £16bn of outstanding hybrid debt to exchange into...
- News items 2009-11-05
- great box-ticker takes charge, The
- The Financial Services Authority has had only two chairmen since its creation in 1997, and as the Northern Rock debacle happened on the watch of the second incumbent, Sir Callum McCarthy, the model for his replacement is inevitably the original holder, Sir Howard Davies. On that basis, Adair Turner --...
- Research articles 2008-06-07
- Don't Price People Out of a Job
- As well as worrying about maximum pay in boardrooms, ministers should look at the minimum wages on the shop floor. If government wants more young people to find jobs it must consider lowering the cost of employing them.  Britain has nearly a million people aged under 25...
- Blog posts 2009-09-14
- Banks Bailed Out -- But What About Fat-Cat Bonuses?
- The status switch at Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs marks the end of an era on Wall Street -- and the most "sweeping intervention in financial markets since the Great Depression." "Now that the US taxpayer is in a formal sense underwriting Goldman and Morgan Stanley, their...
- Blog posts 2008-09-22
- GOOD WEEK
- Fred Goodwin Royal Bank of Scotland made a paper gain of GBP1.4 billion as the Bank of China completed its initial public offering, vindicating chief executive Goodwin's decision to invest in the Chinese bank. Shares were issued at HKdollars2.95 (21p), at the top of the indicative range. ...
- Research articles 2006-05-28
- Banks Face Bonus Deadline - Report
- LONDON (Reuters UK) - Britain's banks, which have seen the profits roll in as the economy rebounds must give breakdowns of bonuses by the end of the week, or they will need to use the cash to beef up reserves, says The Sunday Times.Banks must provide a detailed breakdown of...
- News items 2009-10-25
- The Friday Round-Up
- This isn’t new, but it’s fun. The Telegraph’s ‘Venture Navigator’ allows you to test your entrepreneurial skills across different areas. Go play. Managers are like drunken cyclists, says Freek Vermeulen at Random Rantings -- that is, they look for easily visible solutions rather than peering into the...
- Blog posts 2008-07-04
- News: NPSS is set to be snubbed.
- Lord Turner's National Pension Savings Scheme NPSS will fail because most workers do not want to join it, research by the Association of Consulting Actuaries ACA will reveal this week. The ACA's survey of more than 460 employers with less than 250 staff...
- Research articles 2006-04-17
- Betting your life on it.
- When it comes to life assurance products, we are spoilt for choice these days. Insurance, self-invested pension plans and other savings schemes are all on offer down at your local high-street banks. Alternatively, if you're seriously wealthy, then there are specialised financial boutiques to cater for...
- Research articles 2006-11-24
- Government climate body calls for U-turn over energy deregulation
- Liberalisation of the UK's energy market should be reversed, with ministers taking more control of decisions such as building new renewable energy generation, the government's Committee on Climate Change will say today.The call for a U-turn on 20 years of government policy that has created one of the world's...
- External links 2009-10-11
- For King and country
- Some very radical prescriptions for dealing with the banking sector to avoid another financial crisis of the magnitude of the one just experienced are flowing in the UK from the most authoritative of sources. That the UK is producing the most revolutionary of responses perhaps isn't surprising, given how badly...
- News items 2009-10-20
- Last-chance saloon
- Later this month the G20 will meet at a summit in Pittsburgh that could become a defining moment in terms of governments' responses to the financial crisis. Judging by the pre-meeting rhetoric, European politicians, at least, are getting a little anxious and a little angry that the global banking system...
- News items 2009-08-31
- Ministers pick 10 nuclear sites
- Ten sites in England and Wales have been chosen by ministers as suitable for new nuclear power plants, paving the way for the most ambitious reactor construction programme in Europe. Only five of the sites have so far been identified by generators with specific nuclear new-build plans. Between them the...
- News items 2009-11-09
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