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Tag Archives: House
Houses are for living in – pensions are for life! An answer to financial economics.
“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
Hey Willetts, leave those kids alone
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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Tagged House, pension, policy shift, Resolution foundation, Technology, Wealth
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My house is my health plan?
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
If not a house…what ?
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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Tagged finance, House, house prices, households, millenial, UK, young adult
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Which would you rather live in- a house or a car?
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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Tagged AE, auto enrolment, Car, House, Pensions Minister, Richard Harrington, TPR, workplace pension
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Doing something useful with our money
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
Government Pensions? Who’s money is it anyway?
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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Tagged Bonds, equities, gilts, Government, House, Infrastructure, LGPS, Local Government, NEST, our money, ppf
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The long walk to pension freedom
There is a walk to pension freedom – it needn’t be that long if we can get advice right. Continue reading
Posted in annuity, pensions, Pensions Regulator
Tagged Citizens Advice, FCA, Freedom, House, IFA, pension, pension freedom, pension transfers, TPAS
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