Category Archives: age wage

The good in gating.

Posted on June 17, 2019 by

  The wonder of the gating of the Woodford Equity Income Fund is that it happened in peacetime. There is no financial storm, the crisis is as random of the fall of Icarus in Breughel’s famous painting. There’s no doubt … Continue reading →

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Why I’m on FIRE! (saved enough to stop work)

Posted on June 11, 2019 by

      I’m 57 and I can choose to go to work or not – I’ve got enough and I keep on working because I love it, not because I have to. I got here through luck (being in … Continue reading →

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Time for us to get a grip on later life!

Posted on June 10, 2019 by

The FCA’s financial lives survey is now over two years old and due an update. This great piece of work was marshalled by Jo Hill who is now a Trustee at the Pensions Regulator. It is worth me reminding myself … Continue reading →

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Michelle Cracknell CBE

Posted on June 9, 2019 by

    Michelle Cracknell has been awarded a CBE It was announced on a Saturday as part of the Queen’s birthday honours. She is trying to make out it was for TPAS, but the award was given and earned by … Continue reading →

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Woodford – why we’re blaming everyone but ourselves.

Posted on June 9, 2019 by

Saturday saw me sitting on my boat waiting for my guests to turn up. Clearly they thought it too wet and windy for them , so their Pimms was left un drunk and they missed a fine afternoon! I had … Continue reading →

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Getting youngsters saving more

Posted on June 5, 2019 by

Telling youngsters to save more is a waste of time It’s been a sad 48 hours on twitter watching the wolf pack turn on Paul Claireaux for his cappuccino blog – where Paul postulates that a youngster could have a … Continue reading →

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AgeWage Seedrs round closes today (in our end is our beginning).

Posted on May 24, 2019 by

Today is the last day you will be able to invest in AgeWage (at the current price) on the Seedrs Platform. If you are a Direct Investor and wish to invest £5,000 or more, you can apply for shares using … Continue reading →

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From Osborne to CDC

Posted on May 23, 2019 by

Take one; – macro-economics at BlackRock Yesterday was a day of wild cycle rides accross the streets of London to the offices of Aon, Alliance Bernstein and the palatial conference rooms of the Rosebury Hotel. I was in search of … Continue reading →

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AgeWage is closing its investment round (but you’ve still got a week to invest)

Posted on May 18, 2019 by

www.seedrs.com/agewage We’ll be closing our investment round with Seedrs on Friday 24th May. As I write, that gives readers a week to invest. You invest by clicking the link above, if you want to invest more than £5,000, drop henry@agewage.com … Continue reading →

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Announcing the AgeWage terminal bonus!

Posted on May 6, 2019 by

  6 weeks ago I returned from holiday and launched the AgeWage crowdfunding campaign. We have £25,000 committed from one investor. We set ourselves a target to raise a further £175,000 from the crowd. Today our funding stands at £305,600 … Continue reading →

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