Tag Archives: Income

“There’s nothing special about dividends” – says Robin Powell.

This article is important to pensions though it’s aimed at people with portfolios of directly held shares. Pension funds of course don’t pay a dividend, they pay a pension which is an encashment of the fund. But people base their … Continue reading

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The Dashboard is cleaning up our data – so we’ll see our retirement wages.

It makes us think;-  the prospect of life with a pension dashboard! If Chris Curry is right, the dashboard has done part of its job- a year from starting. We don’t know when he’ll have it open to the public … Continue reading

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Is the pension industry really aligned with the Pensions Minister?

I thought we were to get comment from Pensions UK on Torsten Bell but it turned out an advert. I find a lot of what I read is no more than advert for conferences and that conferences are just adverts … Continue reading

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Is this how young people should save for retirement?

  Here is an article placed by the BBC for ordinary people to read about what’s going on to finance their later life It will come as a surprise to people inside the pension bubble that Kevin Peachey can write … Continue reading

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Tom McPhail’s narrow and tough path to a retirement income

Tom’s excellent session on Tuesday 7th April showed that guided paths to retirement income will be tough and  difficult! It was at a Pension PlayPen coffee morning. Tom’s question session splits into roughly two parts. In the first part we … Continue reading

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Civic minded pensioners don’t come cheap; future generations need pensions (even more than houses)

Stephen Bush’s brilliant article was inspired by him sitting in on trials and discovering magistrates in their seventies, he looks at  the board of the flats he’s a leaseholder of and he finds grandparent pensioners looking after children so that … Continue reading

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A Pensions Mutual for a CDC.

It is good to launch a good news story and I can today. Last Monday, while talking “small pots” we got news from the FCA that the Pensions Mutual had been registered and sealed   What is the Pensions Mutual? … Continue reading

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A Pensions Mutual which will launch a CDC Pension within a year

It is good to launch a good news story and I can today. Last Monday, while talking “small pots” we got news from the FCA that the Pensions Mutual had been registered and sealed   What is the Pensions Mutual? … Continue reading

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2030 and all that ..the income, wealth and pension strategy delivered to time

For those who like this kind of gesturing,  the 2023 report by Torsten Bell’s Resolution Foundation (reporting on how to get Britain out of stagnation) has been marked the Economy 2030 Inquiry 2030 is also a staging date for the … Continue reading

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House owners, enjoy your pension ; renters feed your landlord

Let’s not kid ourselves about the price of our house rising fast enough for us not to have to think about savings, it’s just not like that anymore Yes houses have gone up over the past five years in absolute … Continue reading

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