Tag Archives: Financial Times
Not all recycling’s in the public interest!
A lot of people are confused about taking money out of their pensions and the pensions industry isn’t being very helpful in encouraging people to have their money back (funny that!). So when I read a headline in the Financial … Continue reading
Posted in Debt, pensions
Tagged Financial Times, ft, pensions, recycling, Retirement, Saving, unilever
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Don’t blame pensions for corporate mismanagement
The FT has come up with some excellent research on why pensions find their way into the Pension Protection Fund. It has discovered that a substantial proportion of the so-called “pension failures” over the past ten years, resulted from sale … Continue reading
Posted in Pension Freedoms, pensions, Pensions Regulator
Tagged Bernard Matthews, Financial Times, ft, Insolvency, ppf, Pre-pack, Silentnight
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Con Keating responds to John Ralfe in FT letters
This is a letter published by Con Keating in the Financial Times. Sir, I am surprised that John Ralfe is baffled by my proposal for a more accurate evaluation of defined benefit pension liabilities (Letters, October 28). Not only have … Continue reading
A transparent press is an honest press.
The “Breaking News” in Britain’s financial press is that City AM is tearing down the divide between editorial and advertising and giving the people who pay for their site, the chance to run a section of their (digital) paper. Running … Continue reading
Posted in pensions
Tagged City AM, Employment, Financial services, Financial Times, ft, journalism, Pay-wall, Transparency
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Is this what your savings are paying for?
We have another Twickenham home international coming up, look out for your favourite analyst , he’ll be in one of the glass-fronted boxes . Continue reading
Posted in Bankers, FSA, Twickenham
Tagged Asset, Chief executive officer, Extel, Financial Services Authority, Financial Times, FSA, Investment management, Thomson Reuters
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Who invited banks into schools?
What do the FT, Vivi Friedgut and Martin Lewis have in common? Answer; a common wish to keep banks out of schools! Why have I posted that stupid photo to this blog? Answer; because it demonstrates comparable imbecility of allowing banks … Continue reading
Why we need to say “NO” to pension guarantees!
On Monday the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries delivered a paper stating that it would be able to deliver a system of lock-in guarantees at a price of less than 1% pa of the fund that could be used by … Continue reading
Posted in actuaries, annuity, auto-enrolment, Bankers, club pension, corporate governance, customer service, David Pitt-Watson, dc pensions, defined aspiration, EU Solvency II, FSA, happiness, Liability Driven Investment, NEST, pension playpen, pensions, Personal Accounts, Retirement
Tagged Capital market, Financial Times, Government, Jarvis Cocker, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, Pensions in the United Kingdom, Steve Webb
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