Monthly Archives: October 2010
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
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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Posted in corporate governance, customer service, David Pitt-Watson, dc pensions, NEST, Payroll, pension playpen, Pension Rocks III, pensions, Personal Accounts
Tagged Boiling, Business, Home, Life expectancy, pension, Pension new, Personal Finance, Retail Prices Index (United Kingdom), Retirement
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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
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
Whose (mis)taking my pension?
Sensational reporting is not helpful in getting people to save for retirement Continue reading
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Tagged BBC, Business, Business and Economy, Chris Brown, Financial services, HSBC, Investing, pension, pension playpen
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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