1 June 2016

John’s speech at the annual Cazenove Charity Lecture (May 2016)

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On May 17th John spoke at the annual Cazenove Charities investment lecture hosted by the Royal Institution. His talk followed two main themes; investment uncertainty and long term decision making in endowment asset management, with his thesis challenging the perceived wisdom and suggesting that ‘we make serious mistakes in describing risk in endowment management’. Cazenove have summarised the lecture in a PDF that you may download here: Cazenove Charity Lecture write up may2016  

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Simple arithmetic shows why basic income schemes cannot work

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Swiss voters will decide in a referendum on June 5 whether to introduce a “basic income”. In proposed reforms to the social welfare system, all residents would be entitled to a guaranteed income of SFr30,000 ($30,275) a year from the state — unconditionally. It has attractions for people at both ends of the political spectrum, but is it workable?

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