Monthly Archives: January 2020
And you may ask yourself – my God – what have I done?
Letting the days go by If you listen to the news, you may be carrying a heavy load to work today. The US has just committed what Europe considers a reckless assassination of the most popular person in Iran, bushfires … Continue reading
Boomers are farmers.
I grew up in a rural area of Dorset where the farmers were considered rich but acted poor. The farmers explained that though they might own the land, they could only extract from it the income that came from dairy … Continue reading
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Tagged booker, Dorset, Gardiner, North Dorset, ok boomer, ONS, pensions, Soil Association, Springhead
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“Pentech” lessons from Japan
Last year’s stories about Japanese pensioner’s focussed on their propensity to shoplift , get caught and end up in jail (which they favoured over living solitary lives at home). This blog looks at the problems of financial exclusion … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, age wage, pensions
Tagged Exclusion, financial inlusion, Japan, pensions, Pentech, shop-lifting, Technology
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Some home-truths about our pensions.
When asked “have you got a pension”, most people now say yes. That’s because most people (not all) who are in workplace pensions see the amount paid into a savings account as a payroll deduction that says “pension”. There are … Continue reading
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Tagged advice, AgeWage, CDC, DWP, pensions, Retirement, Treasury
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AI – can it help us retire?
We have known throughout human time that their is wisdom in crowds. Hunters followed paths created by their ancestors , ignoring the paths that didn’t help and focussing on those that did. We have ways of developing things from arrowheads … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, artificial intelligence, Bankers, blockchain, doctors, pensions
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The impact of the Australian bushfires
If anything good comes out of the Australian bushfires, it will be an understanding of their impact on our planet . There are still those in Australia who claim that the bushfires could have happened at any time, but the … Continue reading
Retirement Plans are never set in stone
Thanks to John Mather for pointing me to a great thought-piece by Mike Bloomberg If you don’t want to press the link – here it is Every December 31st, a time-honored tradition brings Americans of all backgrounds and faiths together: … Continue reading
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Have we created a stigma about “not getting pensions”?
Everyone’s favorite pension quote is Andy Haldane’s admission he was not “able to make the remotest sense of pensions“. If the chief economist of the Bank of England is baffled, then the stigma of our not “getting pensions” is a … Continue reading
Welcome to the roaring twenties
There’s a lot of mind-casting going on, us thinking how things things have changed since 2010. But my mind is casting back further, back to the 1920s, the roaring twenties – where Britain emerged from a terrible four years of … Continue reading
Posted in age wage, climate change, pensions
Tagged Climate change, Greta Thunberg, Guy Opperman, Mark Carney, Olafur Eliasson
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