Preparing for a pensions Armageddon

THE CONTRARIAN INVESTOR

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A couple of weeks ago I was astonished to find myself invited to an event on pensions. Clearly, I had been wheeled in to be a bit contrarian, in front of an audience of esteemed pension trustees, fund managers and consultants.

Given I write a column about Adventurous Investing for the FT, I suppose I could have wittered on about the need to look at everything from forestry to exotic hedge funds dabbling in CTA, but I decided to be deliberately...

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