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The chances are you’re reading this – on linkedIn – gender biased (stats would say!)

Yesterday, I wrote a post saying how much more adept I thought younger women were much more adept at using LinkedIn than older men (like me) I said they were better at doing it in “London” as I thought “LinkedIn” … Continue reading

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Why WASPI women have been treated with ill-communicated decency…

A blog by Men did not widely challenge the difference in state pension ages (when it was 60 for women, 65 for men) because the disparity was said to be a historical norm and, for a long time, was (mistakenly?) … Continue reading

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Greenland has joined our worldwide readerhood!

The big news this year is the arrival of Greenland. Only one reader who read in November, but it turned this great land green! We still have parts of central Africa who have not heard the words of the Pension … Continue reading

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Hymans Robertson consistent over 13 years of auto-enrolment.

This is a blog I wrote in July 2012 as we embarked on staging auto-enrolment. Yesterday I was talking with Hymans Robertson about what can be done to help people understand if they are getting Value for Money from their … Continue reading

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This blog has been read everywhere (apart from Greenland!)

There are only two parts of the world where this blog is not read. The first and most obvious is Greenland and the second is Central Africa. Millions of readers of the blog also are excluded North Korea and there’s … Continue reading

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Collected wisdom of the Pension Oldie

The Pension Oldie is a legendary figure on this blog. Lately his comments have scaled new levels of perspicacity. Here he is speaking out on turning pots to pensions From my previous comments on your blogs, Henry, it will come … Continue reading

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Have boomers pulled up the drawbridge on their children?

Steve Webb’s latest Money Mail response is both authoritative and interesting, if you can’t be bothered to read this blog, read Steve’s article instead (but both are worth a read). Will the state pension become means tested in the future … Continue reading

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What’s Edi Truell up to next?

    The immediate answer to that question is “skiing in the Swiss Alps”, but I don’t expect that’s what you really want to know. If you want to hear it from his own mouth, you can join a call … Continue reading

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Tilting at Windows: – why “pensions equity” is too hard

  Back in May, the PLSA set up a new group – the pensions equity group (PEG) , with the help of 24 organisations who either had skin in the DC game or wanted to. The aims of the group … Continue reading

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The collected rants of Jnamdoc

  One of the best things about running my blog is attracting comment which are better than the blogs themselves. I enjoy many an evening reviewing these comments and chortling. One comment – ator who falls into the “better than … Continue reading

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