The future of current and future pensioners is being pickpocketed by distortive bank regulations.

Sir you discuss capping pension fees in “Plug the deficit on pension regulations” December 27.

In it you hold that “workers need to save more… but they also need to invest wisely”, that “Vigilant regulation is needed to make sure that unsuspecting savers do not end up being pickpocketed”, and that “Savers should be grateful if business ideas that depend on charging unreasonable high fees never see the light of day”.

And solomonically you end holding that “Regulators cannot ensure that every provider charges a fair price. But they should give consumers the means of looking after themselves.”

How good of you! But why do you not dare to care more about how the future of current and future pensioners, like that of so many young without job, is pickpocketed by distortive bank regulations? These certainly cause much more damage than some unreasonable high fees.

“Invest wisely?” In an economy in which the capital requirements for banks are based on perceived risks already previously cleared for? In an economy where banks are therefore investing on preferential leverage terms in what is perceived as “absolutely safe”? Where are then pension funds to go? To finance railroads in Argentina perhaps?