Tag Archives: House

Could a wealth tax fix our broken economy?

Posted on July 3, 2020 by henry tapper

Britain is broke, for the second time in 12 years our economy has hit the buffers but this time the noises coming out of Government suggest that it is the wealthy who will pay to fix it. This would be … Continue reading →

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Houses are for living in – pensions are for life! An answer to financial economics.

Posted on August 17, 2018 by henry tapper

“the river of private pensions in the UK will only get shallower as it widens out to include so many more of us”  – Steve Bee Steve’s metaphor is so precise, so visual and so elegantly conveyed that this quote … Continue reading →

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Hey Willetts, leave those kids alone

Posted on May 8, 2018 by henry tapper

The Resolution Foundation have today published a paper which has as its central thesis A policy shift is needed to mitigate risks and promote asset accumulation for all It calls on Government to intervene to make society fairer, at least … Continue reading →

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My house is my health plan?

Posted on May 20, 2017 by henry tapper

  It is the one life event we don’t want to talk about. Shakespeare could only talk of it through the fool; Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, … Continue reading →

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If not a house…what ?

Posted on May 5, 2017 by henry tapper

This chart taken from Office of National Statistics Data – seems significant. It shows that in the period following the financial crash renting became the norm for young adults in the UK. Buying a house in your twenties was – … Continue reading →

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Which would you rather live in- a house or a car?

Posted on February 18, 2017 by henry tapper

  I’m fond of our current pension minister; he makes me laugh! He does a good impression of the “pension’s idiot” and enjoys being thought rather less on the ball than he actually is.   But scratch the surface and … Continue reading →

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Doing something useful with our money

Posted on December 28, 2016 by henry tapper

Pension Funds like bonds, they provide a regular income stream and some bonds pay income for twenty years or more, a bit like lending money as a mortgage. Which begs the question “why don’t pension funds lend money as mortgages?”. … Continue reading →

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Government Pensions? Who’s money is it anyway?

Posted on January 18, 2016 by henry tapper

The vast majority of the money outstanding to those who work and have worked for Government is to be paid as pension. The Government’s pension debts – for its own people – have been estimated in the Whole of Government … Continue reading →

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The long walk to pension freedom

Posted on March 2, 2015 by henry tapper

There is a walk to pension freedom – it needn’t be that long if we can get advice right. Continue reading →

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