Torsten Bell

Mar 23, 2025 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Jon Bloomfield |Torsten Bell |Kemi Badenoch

Great Britain? How We Can Get Our Future Back, by . Bodley Head. 304pp. £20.00. Conservatism in Crisis. Rise of the Bureaucratic Class, by . Renewal2030. Torsten Bell is a policy specialist, a former chief adviser to Labour leader Ed Miliband, then the head of the left-leaning Resolution Foundation. In 2024, he was elected as a Labour MP for Swansea West and immediately the new government made him a junior minister, firstly in the Cabinet Office and then Under Secretary of State for Pensions.

Mar 11, 2025 | pensions-expert.com | Pádraig Floyd |Torsten Bell

While both costs and savings rates are important, the focus must be on returns, he said. “Celebrating the success of auto-enrolment can no longer be a substitute for answering the harder question,” said Bell. The government’s view was that “scale does matter” and it wants wants to see “fewer, bigger, better pension schemes”.

Mar 6, 2025 | pensions-expert.com | Nick Reeve |Torsten Bell

Law firm Eversheds Sutherland and master trust provider NatWest Cushon have worked together on the legal advice and presented it at an event yesterday (5 March). The organisations said the current legal framework around fiduciary duty supported a “wide and long-term view of sustainability”. They argued that the interpretation could also increases trustees’ ability to allocate to private market assets – and support the UK government’s growth agenda.

Nov 20, 2024 | civilserviceworld.com | Tevye Markson |Torsten Bell |Jim Dunton

The Treasury’s director of fiscal policy will depart next year to become chief executive of the Resolution Foundation. Ruth Curtice, who has been a civil servant at the Treasury for more than 15 years, will become the think tank’s chief exec on January 20. Curtice said she is “excited to be leading the Resolution Foundation into the next phase of its valuable work”. “I have seen at first hand the impact its excellent analysis has had on policy in the UK,” she added.

Feb 11, 2024 | theguardian.com | Torsten Bell

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