Professor Steve Peers, Royal Holloway University of London Photo credit: Home Office, via Wikimedia Commons – the former Home Secretary meets Rwanda’s foreign minister Introduction An unlawful attempt to remove asylum-seekers to an unsafe country that they had no connection with, in breach of basic human rights – as confirmed by the Supreme Court. … Read more
This is part two of a series about the safe withdrawal rate (SWR) for a portfolio in drawdown, and how to improve it. Unfortunately I set the cause back a bit in the first part, when I showed that the UK safe withdrawal rate is quite dismal – just 3.1% for 30-year spans, versus the … Read more
Steve Peers, Professor of Law, Royal Holloway University of London Photo credit: Andre Engels, via Wikimedia Commons The EU’s asylum pact was adopted less a year ago, and mostly won’t apply for over another year – and yet the EU Commission has already proposed to amend it, in order to bring forward some of … Read more
Search “What is the UK safe withdrawal rate?” and the results are disappointing. Google’s AI response offers 4%, which as we’ll see is just plain wrong. Meanwhile it’s hard to get a straight answer from the humans amid all the financial content marketing. Indeed there’s plenty of sketchy chat about the 4% rule. It’s a … Read more
Three years after Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the widespread activation of universal and other forms of extraterritorial jurisdiction to prosecute international crimes committed in the war calls for an evaluation. What has been achieved so far and what could be done better? Despite the stated commitment of Ukraine’s allies to complement the … Read more