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Biography for Adair Turner

First Name: Adair

Last Name: Turner

Title: Chairman

Organization: Pensions Commission

Country: United Kingdom

Date of Birth: 1955

Education: Glenalmond GraduateStudied History and Economics at Cambridge University

CV: Taught EcnomicsWorked for British Petroleum and Chase Manhattan Bank1982 Joined McKinsey & Company as a Management consultant1988 Partner of McKinsey & Company1994 Director of McKinsey & Company1995-1999 Director-General of the Confederation of British Industry2001-2002 Member of the Prime Minister's Panel of Independent Strategic Advisors 2002- Chairman of the UK, Pensions Commission2005 he was created a life peer as Baron Turner of Ecchinswell, of Ecchinswell in the County of Hampshire.

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CPP Investment Board and McKinsey & Company: Global Survey Signals Short-Term Pressures on Business Leaders Are Mounting

Announcing a joint initiative, entitled "Focusing Capital on the Long Term", Barton and Wiseman described short-termism as a central concern in today's global economy and discussed the pivotal role that corporate directors and institutional investors ... [Published Investors Business Daily - May 22 2013]

Entities: McKinsey & Company, Institutional Investors, Dominic Barton

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

G30 Publishes Debt, Money, and Mephistopheles: How Do We Get Out of This Mess, by Adair Turner

The publication, adapted from Adair Turner's speech at the Cass Business School in February 2013, looks at the financial crisis, the post crisis recession, and policy options available to central banks and governments. Adair Turner, Senior Fellow at the ... [Published PRWeb - May 21 2013]

Entities: Adair Turner, Group of Thirty, Cass Business School, Financial Crisis

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Anders Borg

Sweden determined to preserve high capital ratios

Swedish Finance Minister Anders Borg said he is determined not to succumb to pressure from banks or the EU to lower capital ratios and insisted that they have to remain higher compared to other EU countries.As Finance Minister Borg stated in an interview: ... [Published New Europe - May 20 2013]

Entities: Christian Clausen, Sweden, Anders Borg

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 2 reports

Adair Turner

Helicopter money as a policy option

By Lucrezia Reichlin, Professor of Economics at London Business School; co-founder, Now-Casting Economics and CEPR Research Director, Adair Turner, Member of the UK Financial Policy Committee; Senior Research Fellow, Institute for New Economic Thinking, ... [Published naked capitalism - May 20 2013]

Entities: Monetary Base, Adair Turner, Michael Woodford

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Applying advanced analytics in consumer companies | McKinsey & Company

Consumer-facing companies must be able to gather and manage the right data, apply analytics that generate insights, and translate those insights into effective frontline action. A McKinsey & Company article. See it on Scoop.it , via Strategy and Competitive ... [Published Strategy and Competitive Intelligence | Scoop.it - May 17 2013]

Entities: McKinsey & Company, Competitive Intelligence

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Alibaba.com Ltd

Chinese websites a new challenge to retailers

As Australia's major retailers ramp up their online sales channels, pouring millions into their websites, new competition from China's booming e-commerce industry looms. China's online retail market is now the world's second largest after the United States, ... [Published The Sydney News - May 17 2013]

Entities: Alibaba.com Ltd, China, McKinsey & Company

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Pensions consensus must improve to achieve adequate retirement incomes, says TUC

The UK is close to achieving consensus around pensions but weaknesses in the system must be addressed, according to a new pamphlet published by the Trade Unions Congress (TUC).According to the paper, the findings of Adair Turner’s Pensions Commission ... [Published Pensions Age - May 15 2013]

Entities: Frances O Grady, Adair Turner, Trade Union, Reformism, Powerful

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

SME Banking opportunity in MENA by McKinsey & Company

This presentation outlines the present business case for SME banking in MENA, discusses supply-side constraints in serving SMEs and shares leading practices in SME banking. This presentation was given during a conference jointly organized by The Arab ... [Published Zunia.org RSS - May 14 2013]

Entities: SME Banking, McKinsey & Company, Arab Monetary Fund, Small & Medium Enterprises

First reported May 07 2013 - Updated May 07 2013 - 1 reports

Former FSA Chair Lord Turner Attacks Austerity And Warns Of Another Crash

The former chair of the Financial Services Authority (FSA), Adair Turner, has called on the government to be "more cautious" about austerity and expressed concerns that there could be another financial crash in the next "10 or 15 years".Speaking to the ... [Published Huffington Post UK - May 07 2013]

Entities: Adair Turner, Financial Services Authority, Subordinated Debt, Ed Balls, HBOS plc

First reported May 03 2013 - Updated May 03 2013 - 2 reports

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Greg Ip: Lehman, PSI and the consequences of credit policy: The third lever of macroeconomics : Economics undergrads learn early on about two levers to manage the macroeconomy: fiscal policy and monetary policy. Events of the last five years make clear ... [Published J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All ... - May 03 2013]

Entities: Crisis, Business Cycle, Allan Meltzer, David Romer

First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 2 reports

Worried About 'Deflation, Not Inflation'

Sometimes fiscal policy is like the weather: Everyone talks about it but nobody ever does anything about it.It's certainly been a big topic of conversation here at the Milken Institute Global Conference. For the most part, even the talk has been a bit ... [Published CNBC - May 02 2013]

Entities: Deflation, Federal Reserve System, Inflation

First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 1 reports

Neil Macdonald: The secretive world of printing money

The case for more public scrutiny of the central banks. Power Shift 3 Consider this: As America agonizes and argues over the pain of government cuts totalling about $85 billion next year, the U.S. Federal Reserve is printing that much every month.Its ... [Published CBC - May 01 2013]

Entities: Neil MacDonald, Adair Turner, William Greider

Blogs

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Lord Adair Turner on Money Creation and Banks [Published EthicalMarkets.com - Feb 22 2013] Lecture, Cass Business School, February 6, 2013At a lecture at London’s Cass Business School, Lord Adair Turner broke ranks and called for an end to allowing private banks to create the nation’s money: instead, turning this vital function over to the ...
Economic Theory for an Age of Ruin [Published Firedoglake - Feb 22 2013] Flour Mill, Wolverhampton, England As this financial disaster grinds through its fifth year, US economists haven’t seemed to change much about their analysis or explanations. The people who got it wrong continue to push their false theories, insisting ...
Macroeconomic Policy and Economic Stability - A... [Published Economist's View - Apr 06 2013] Adair Turner calls for "overt monetary finance": ...
It's Failing All Over the Show – So Let's Do Mo... [Published St George West - Feb 07 2013] By Pater Tenebrarum : The insanity that has gripped policymakers all over the world really is a sight to see. There was a time when central bankers were extremely careful not to do anything that might endanger the currency's value too much ...
Guest Post: It's Failing All Over the Show – So... [Published Zero Hedge - Feb 07 2013] Via Pater Tenebrarum of Acting-Man blog , The insanity that has gripped policymakers all over the world really is a sight to see. There was a time when central bankers were extremely careful not to do anything that might endanger the currency's ...

Audio/Video

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Reuters Breakingviews: Extraordinary times call... [Published Reuters Video: Business - Feb 11 2013]
Does the Mommy Track Lead Back To Work? [Published WSJ.com Video - News - Feb 20 2013]

Press Releases

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Mckinsey & Company to Present Ground-Breaking R... [Published PR Newswire - Sep 20 2012]
Harvard Business Review and McKinsey & Company'... [Published PARC News - Jan 22 2013]
CPP Investment Board and McKinsey & Company: Gl... [Published Marketwire - Breaking News Releases - May 22 2013]
CPP Investment Board and McKinsey & Company: Gl... [Published PR inside - May 22 2013]
Fitch Affirms Chase Manhattan Marine Owner Trus... [Published Business Wire Professional Services News - May 02 2013]