Tag Archives: Telegraph

“Your retirement salary” – the pension best seller.

Posted on April 28, 2019 by henry tapper

How to use your lifetime of pension savings to pay yourself an income in your retirement   Richard Dyson & Richard Evans, the Daily Telegraph’s senior personal finance journalists, have written a book. I like the title “Your retirement salary” … Continue reading →

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The Transparency Zeitgeist is upon us

Posted on May 21, 2016 by henry tapper

I am a frugal man, the £3.50 I paid for this morning’s FT was grudgingly passed to my newsagent. But I wanted to capture the headline and read about Josephine’s reporting of a meeting with my friends Andy Agethangelou and … Continue reading →

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Let the canny worm lie?

Posted on February 8, 2016 by henry tapper

The problem with cans of worms is that the cans degrade and in the end the worms get out, and cause a stink. Over the weekend, the Telegraph that acts as a professional “worm can opener” has been turning its … Continue reading →

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Our parents’ houses.

Posted on June 2, 2015 by henry tapper

property, downsizing, home, residence, sheltered housing, family, children, grandchildren Continue reading →

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Doctors are pension millionaires – so why are they striking?

Posted on May 30, 2012 by henry tapper

My Dad’s a doctor and in retirement – he has a great pension  and who can begrudge him it? He retired 25 years ago as a senior partner – on about one third of the final salary he’s be on today. Like him, I … Continue reading →

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Who’ll win this Pension Referendum?

Posted on May 28, 2012 by henry tapper

We are about to have a pensions referendum. Votes will be cast not at the ballot box but through an obscure process known as “the opt-out“. Over the next five years , more than 5m people, around 20% of the … Continue reading →

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