Ninety days in power: What have the Tories done to financial services?

    Ros Altmann named pension minister (11 May) Flush from their election victory on 8 May, within three days the Tories hit financial services with the appointment of Ros Altmann as pension minister. Altmann was not an MP but the Conservatives will nominate her for a peerage so she can become a Cabinet minister. She has described herself as an "independent policy expert and older workers champion", but by training she is a City banker, who became an analyst, who became an economist, working at Natwest, Rothschild Asset Management and Chase Manhattan Bank. Altmann is a keen a...