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Big week for politics – big week for pensions
Things will come to a head this week. For Guy Opperman today will either be the day his Pensions Bill will make it into the Queens Speech or his first term in office will be remembered as “close but … Continue reading
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Tagged AgeWage, Boris, Brexit, pensions, Pensions Bill, Quietroom, Straits of Hormuz
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What would BREXIT mean to workplace pensions?
Europe has a great deal of influence on UK pensions; the influence includes fund reporting, funding requirements, reserving against risk and even competition between service providers. This can have very strange results. The reason that NEST has such a … Continue reading
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Tagged Brexit, Gina Miller, pensions, Ros Altmann, workplace, workplace Pensions
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Been on the edge all week!
What don’t I think (about Brexit)? It’s been a strange week or two; for some reason I’ve found myself in Westminster a lot, lobbying on behalf of scam victims, discussing the “net-pay anomaly”, listening to the Pensions Minister on open … Continue reading
The sharks using Brexit to prey on DB pensions.
You don’t have to go to Spain or Dubai to get poor advice on managing your retirement finances – try France. In this article, Des Cooney from Axis Consultants in Paris offers British expats this advice In the mean-time expats should … Continue reading
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Tagged Axis, Brexit, Carillion, DB pensions, Des Cooney, Phil Loughton
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Brexit sets our pensions free!
We are where we are; Brexit is changing things. Brexit is a disruptor of old certainties and a bringer of new opportunities. The pensions and savings industry has grown fat on the old certainties but is now being confronted by populist … Continue reading
Can the Government nudge us to be proud to rent? #housingwhitepaper
Within an hour of the document’s publication, Paul Lewis had delivered his verdict and people were keen to endorse it. I was not one of them. The UK housing market is too big a ship to be turned round by … Continue reading
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Tagged Brexit, build to rent, Buy to own, Buy to rent, Buy-to-let, Government, house price, Housing White Paper, Paul Lewis, pride, rent
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“Brexit penalties” and the price of freedom.
What kind of a club charges you £59bn to leave it? If the EU was a pension plan, we’d be screaming about exit penalties. But I suspect we are talking up the cost to highlight the brilliant negotiating tactics of … Continue reading
It was our Gina what done it!
The unexpected decision in the Supreme Court to give power to our parliament to debate the pushing of the button, created an upheaval in financial markets that had more or less given up on anything than a hard Brexit. The … Continue reading
Is Trump a “necessary agent of change”?
“An imperfect candidate but a necessary agent of change” Not my formulation but the unconsidered response to my question. I was standing at the bar of the Westminster Arms following a successful meeting with Share Action in the house … Continue reading
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Tagged Brexit, change, Farage, globalisation, nostalgia, Populism, Trump, US Elections
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Was BHS a blessing?
At a rowdy debate at yesterday’s Battle of Ideas, my colleague Hilary Salt stoked the fires by claimed the fall of BHS was a milestone to improving British productivity. Nobody expressed disagreement – despite it being packed with left-wing thinkers. … Continue reading
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Tagged BHS, blockchain, Brexit, ethical, ethics, first actuarial, governance, Hilary Salt, Merryn Somerset Webb, pensions, Productivy, Technology
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