Actuaries recognise the intergenerational unfairness of DB pensions. Angus Hanton, IF co-founder, reports
Angus Hanton
Co-Founder
Angus is an IF trustee having helped to establish IF back in 2011. A self-confessed baby boomer, economist and entrepreneur, Angus is particularly interested in government spending, the discount rate, government debt, pensions, taxation, housing, and solutions to the climate crisis. Outside work Angus is most often to be found on a bike going to meetings with other charities he supports.
China’s intergenerational tensions
Drawing on interviews and observations during a recent visit, Angus Hanton, co-founder of IF, reflects on fairness between the generations in China
The party manifestos: an intergenerational audit
With election day looming, Angus Hanton, co-founder of IF, assesses the Labour, Conservative and Lib Dem party manifestos to check their intergenerational credentials
How the Brexit bill negotiations are likely to disadvantage the young
Angus Hanton, co-founder of IF, explains why the figure of 100 billion euros has been bandied about, and why Britain’s liabilities are typical of the casual commitments that politicians make, without considering the consequences for younger generations
The “cock-up theory” of student debt
Angus Hanton, co-founder of IF, deplores the casual misguidedness of policy-makers that is responsible for the plight of debt-burdened graduates
Will student debt drive people apart?
IF co-founder Angus Hanton believes that the new, high levels of student debt will aggravate some of the old fault lines in society – and create new ones
What’s changed for this generation is change itself…
Angus Hanton, co-founder of IF, contributes to our “think-piece” thread with thoughts about the consequences of an ever-quickening pace of change
“I want nothing to do with young people…”
Angus Hanton, Co-Founder of IF, reflects on some isolationist sentiments expressed by a member of the older generation in reaction to the recent IF paper “Generations Apart”
Does increased longevity have to mean greater costs?
Welcome though increased longevity might be, it also implies longer retirement, with economic burdens that society is ill-prepared to meet. But as IF co-founder Angus Hanton suggests, there are ways to soften the impact
Are identity politics obscuring intergenerational unfairness?
Personal identity and individual entitlement have come to the forefront of the political stage, but do not address the long-term social and economic impact of intergenerational discrimination against entire generations, argues Angus Hanton, co-founder of IF