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A Christmas present for UK pension plc
The Pension Protection fund published its monthly update on Tuesday. The news slipped out quietly (as good news generally does). The aggregate deficit of the 5,794 schemes in the PPF 7800 Index is estimated to have decreased over the month to … Continue reading
No fear! Ruminations on 2016 and how to face it.
It’s Christmas morning which is a very special time. We all have our private Christmas’ but it’s a day when we share ourselves with family and I’m lucky still to have my parents with me and our whole clan are … Continue reading
What you want and what you get- Happy Christmas!
Because it is early on Christmas morning I should start by saying happy Christmas. I am not in bed because I have a code and have been listening to Jane Garvey talking about the changing way we listen to radio. … Continue reading
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Tagged Bear, Christmas, Christmas Day, Financial services, Golf, Jane Garvey, pension, pension playpen, Radio 5, Victoria Derbyshire
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E-Christmas Cards – a very rum idea if you ask me.
What do you do with e-christmas cards? They bother me. “E-Christmas card” is a misnoma, most of these e-thingies seem the product of the thought police who de-risk corporate communications. “Merry” is of course out – a whiff of intoxication … Continue reading
Tis’ the season to get merry! Pension Play Pen Parties tonight!
Deck the halls with bells and Holly! Fancy a Carol this Christmas? BEHAVE! Holly and Carol have a particularly hard time at this time . They are decked and sung and the butt of too many gags. All the best jobs go to … Continue reading
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Tagged Carol, Christmas, Holly, Misrule, Mother Christmas, Pension Play Pen Party, Play
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Another year older..
I am not a year older – I am two years younger than I was five years ago – at least I’m two years further from retirement (relatively speaking). Continue reading
Why I’m walking backwards for Christmas.
I saw a lady walking down London Wall this morning, what a sourpuss, I turned to her and tried to cheer her up “cheer up it’s Christmas” said I. She flicked me a V and walked off Continue reading
Play up Primark!
What is the connection between Britain’s favourite clothing retailer and the South Coast’s worst managed football club? Step forward Colin Hately, folically challenged supremo of the AB Foods (owner of Primark) pension schemes and Pompey till he dies! Colin looks the … Continue reading
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Tagged Christmas, DC Comics, Employment, Ian Smith, pension, Pompey, Portsmouth, Primark
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The sunny uplands of Wiltshire
Above the Donheads and the villages of the Chalk Valley rises White Sheet Hill the western end of a ridge that runs 16 miles to Salisbury. Few buildings are on this ridge other than agricultural barns protecting hay, straw and … Continue reading
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Tagged Christmas, Dorset, England, London, Ridgeway, Salisbury, Saudi Arabia, Wiltshire
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Pensions dead by 2050 – taking the Michael?
The Daily Telegraph, which through Richard Evans has started writing sharp and provocative articles on pensions, came out with a corker just before Christmas. I read it on the beach and nearly choked on my sangria! Here it is in … Continue reading
Posted in annuity, Australia, auto-enrolment, David Pitt-Watson, dc pensions, de-risking, defined aspiration, Henry Tapper blog, NEST, Payroll, pension playpen, pensions, Treasury, with-profits
Tagged Actuarial science, Business, Business and Economy, Christmas, corporate governance, corporate risk, Daily Telegraph, DC Comics, dc pensions, Employment, Financial literacy, Financial services, Government, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, Pension Poverty, pensions, Politics, Retirement, Saving, social media, Steve Webb
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