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Jo’s pension manifesto
Sometimes someone comes out with a simple statement that makes sense of all the noise. Jo Cumbo launched her pension manifesto in the pages of Pensions Expert this week and I don’t want them to be lost to readers of … Continue reading
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Giving doctors a break
“82% of consultants say they are are or are planning cutting down on work” – Dr Tony Goldstone You can listen here to Dr Goldstone explain the issues facing doctors who find themselves on the cliff edge of taxation and … Continue reading
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Tagged annual allowance, ft, NHS, pensions, Taper, Tony Goldstone
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Cyber-power; is Facebook our new Government?
When your bobbing up and down on the Thames in a wooden boat for a few days, it’s difficult to imagine how tech platforms are changing the world, but returning to terra- firma and reading “the Fracturing of the Global … Continue reading
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British Steel – workplace pensions go missing
Maria Espadinha’s excellent article in the FT’s Advisor clarifies to financial advisers that were Greybull to go into administration, there would be no impact on the new BSPS. It’s a timely reminder as there will undoubtedly be increased vulnerability amongst traumatised … Continue reading
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Tagged BSPS, ft, FTadvisor, Greybull, Maria Espidhana, tata, workplace Pensions
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“We want freedom and choice and we want simplification too”.
Pensions. Tax. Benefits. Each over-complex. When combined: lethal. We shouldn’t blame pension freedoms for the mistakes caused by governments’ habit of making everything too complicated. We want freedom and choice and we want simplification too. — Stuart Fowler (@fowlerdrew) February … Continue reading
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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
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Tagged Financial Times, ft, pensions, recycling, Retirement, Saving, unilever
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Will “DC deficits” become a thing of the past?
News of HMRC’s “change of position” with regards the “net-pay- anomaly” is welcome, and long overdue. It came in the form of a letter sent in response to a request from respected journalist Jo Cumbo of the FT. Govt to … Continue reading
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Posted in advice gap, annuity, auto-enrolment, pension playpen, pensions
Tagged AE, auto enrolment, ft, jo cumbo, NEST, net-pay, pensions
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Our pen-tech free pension picnic!
“It is one thing for a company to know my vacation shopping patterns or what media I like; it is another for them to access my entire financial history, including my investments” So Rana Foroohar wraps up an … Continue reading
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Tagged FinTech, ft, Gregg, pensions, Pentech, Technology
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Frank Field – a Labour warrior.
Frank Field Quits Labour Party https://t.co/lr5COhPfCq pic.twitter.com/yVXTAild4f — Guido Fawkes (@GuidoFawkes) August 30, 2018 Yesterday I reported that Chris Sier and Andy Agethangelou were appearing in front of Frank Field’s Work and Pensions Select Committee. Today I’m writing about Frank … Continue reading
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Tagged Frank Field, ft, jo cumbo, pensions, Work and Pensions Select Committee
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The self-employed are engaged- they just don’t know what to do.
If you have an FT subscription, follow this link – you will be able to read Jo Cumbo’s beautifully written opinion piece “Self-employed, the pension world’s great unsolved dilemma”. If you are saving so hard for your pension that you … Continue reading
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Tagged Cashcalc, CDC, ft, jo cumbo, Lifetime ISA, pensions, products, self-employed
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