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In our business, you have to focus on the long term and the long term fundamentals. In the pensions business, the long term fundamentals are really about people needing and therefore saving money for retirement. Government policy doesn't change that.

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“In our business, you have to focus on the long term and the long term fundamentals.”

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In our business, you have to focus on the long term and the long term fundamentals. And in the pensions business, the long term fundamentals are really about people needing and therefore saving money for retirement. And government policy doesn't change that because the dynamics,

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Strong leadership philosophy about focusing on fundamentals despite external noise. The pension-specific example makes it concrete, and 'government policy doesn't change that' is a confident, quotable stance.

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