Monetary policy's unintentional side effects
Ros explains why QE isn’t working and how it is causing damaging side-effects that will have longer term negative consequences.
Pensions World – failure of regulation could derail autoenrolment
Ros comments on the dangers for workers of the current regulatory gaps and calls for a better, simpler regulatory regime – just one for all pensions.
Employers must act now on auto enrolment
Ros wrote an Expert View column for the JC highlighting the urgency of employers starting to plan for pensions auto-enrolment.
Giving Young Women and Girls a Voice Competition, 2013
Ros Altmann is one of the judges in the inaugural National Council of Women ‘Giving Young Women and Girls a Voice’ competition, 2013. She tells us about some of the challenges she has faced as a woman working in finance and what she is looking for in the essays.
Ripped-off Britons – Guardian cartoons on consultancy charging
The Guardian’s ‘Ripped off Britons’ cartoon section used Ros’ views on consultancy charging to highlight the problems faced by workers forcibly paying for advice to their employers, from unregulated unqualified ‘consultants’. She calls for the Government to stop or cap the charges.
The Independent Feature: Are politicians undermining capitalism?
Ros was interviewed by the Independent for a feature on her career which highlighted the pensions campaign she was part of and her views on the dangers of QE
CityAM feature – A Budget for Borrowers again
Ros wrote an article for CityAM giving her views on the main Budget measures, with little cheer for savers but big boost for borrowers. She expresses her concerns about stoking up house prices.
tPR objectives – should they be changed in favour of employers?
Ros responded to the DWP consultation about whether the objectives of the UK Pension Regulator need to be changed to increase its emphasis on employer affordability.
Consultation response on smoothing Pension Fund discount rates
Ros responded to DWP consultation on allowing smoothing of UK pension fund discount rates
Ros's evidence for Treasury Select Committee hearing on QE
Ros submitted supplementary evidence to the Treasury Select Committee inquiry on QE, ahead of her appearance on 29th January 2013