Priest Alaska brought back the woman I love after another man nearly destroyed our marriage. My wife’s personality had changed…
Priest Alaska brought back the woman I love after another man nearly destroyed our marriage. My wife’s personality had changed…
Majority of clubs on edge of 'financial disaster' - regulator https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c6vgx70pzq1jo The regulator says 60% of clubs do not have…
Yawn. Yet another survey of a small sample of pension scheme members, 40 pages in length. I wish instead they'd…
Tag Archives: Cost
Triple Lock Revisited : Approximate Costs over 15 Years From 2024/5 -Jon Spain
Revisited : Approximate Costs Over 15 Years From 2024/25 Outline understanding large numbers triple lock background major UK state expenditure 2024/25 UK state pension pensioner population triple lock definition wages growth prices growth random numbers used results conclusions Understanding … Continue reading
Stuart Kirk reckons “summer holidays are the number one enemy of retirement”.
In the FT I give money to every beggar and homeless person I see. The reality is they will enjoy the booze and drugs my money can buy more than I will at my age. Not that I gave a … Continue reading
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Tagged Cost, Holiday, ice-cream, Markets, Pensions, Saving, Stuart Kirk, sunglasses, trainers
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Increase your staff pension payments by 50%? No thanks. Increase pensions by 60%? Yes please!
Sounds stupid, but it is what CDC is promising. From 2027, employers can ditch their DC workplace pensions for CDC workplace pensions with the promise of 60% pensions at retirement for the same “pain” while an employee’s at work. Employers … Continue reading
Has a robot changed advice for ever?
Below are the questions I’ve been asked to address next month at the Pension and Benefit Conference. I hope that when robots go to grammar school, they’ll be able to do a little better framing the question! The framing of the … Continue reading
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Tagged advice, Business, Cameron, Cost, IFA, pensions, robo-advice, Transparency
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If it’s not in the price- I’m not paying it.
All week I have been beset by those nasty little extras that add up. On Norwegian Airlines everything is extra, water, food , headsets , blankets – the duty free is more expensive than Tescos. It costs $50 to put … Continue reading
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Tagged corporate governance, Cost, disclosure, governance, Transparency, Value for Money, VAT
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The cost of auto-enrolment
Charlotte Clark – one of the architects of auto-enrolment and now head of private pensions in the DPW – is an economist. She is familiar with cost having worked in a corresponding position in the Treasury and it was … Continue reading
The true cost of pensions; UK vs Netherlands – guest blog from Emma Craig of KAS Bank
Yesterday the Financial Services Consumer Panel released a paper outlining key issues for long term savers created by opacity in the true cost of investing in pensions. As auto-enrolment of workers into (predominantly) Defined Contribution pensions continues apace the … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, chris sier, Cost, emma craig, Financial services, KAS, KAS Bank, pension, true
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This particular question wasn’t asked or answered but Oliver was very clear that the launch is only the start. The…