Monthly Archives: October 2010

Paying for a Citizen’s Pension

Paying for a Citizen’s Pension.

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Vodaphone trebles the cost of my child’s holiday (via Henrytapper’s Blog)

Pleased to say that Vodafone and I have settled our differences- nasty lesson- please learn from my mistake My delight at the holiday snaps of my 12 year old's son's school trip to South Africa and trip with his mates … Continue reading

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How to boil a frog- tax changes for pensions

Of course the best way to boil a frog is to put it in cold water and heat the water to boiling point, putting a frog in boiling water will result in the frog jumping out of the pot.
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“No one uses e-mail anymore”

“who checks their email any more. All i do is get on facebook which to me is pretty much the same thing except without the spam” Continue reading

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Is guidance good enough – FSA?

One of the consequences of the pensions mis-selling scandal of the 1990s has been a long tail of distrust between occupational trustees and their advisers and advisers regulated by the FSA. Continue reading

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This is Liverpool – this train terminates here

Another restatement, the gravy train has hit the buffers. Continue reading

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Whose (mis)taking my pension?

Sensational reporting is not helpful in getting people to save for retirement Continue reading

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The Pension Playpen

It embraces dullness as a mother embraces her child’s dirty nappy- as something to be disposed of. Continue reading

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