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Torsten – have a word with Nausicaa about how your pension is invested!
The story of how the MP’s DB pension is even less invested in UK growth stocks than the average private sector UK pension has been knocking around a few days and I’ve been trying to stay out of its way … Continue reading
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Tagged CDC, David Fairs, DB, DB Funds, Jeremy Hunt, MP, Nausicaa Delfas, Pensions
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Should Jeremy Hunt switch to Labour?
My copy of “Great Britain?” is holding up well, I don’t think we need be a “stagnation nation”, we can move on Jeremy Hunt has been on Newscast and this morning on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg. It wasn’t just the … Continue reading
Two versions of growth – one that has failed – one that might succeed.
There are three pension agendas in this election, one is being talked about, one is not being talked about (but is crucial), the third is the one the pension industry wants to be talked about (but isn’t on anyone … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, DWP, Employment, Government, Jeremy Hunt, pension, Pension new, Pensions, Rachel Reeves, Retirement
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National insurance and the funding of the state pension
There are plenty of people, especially young people, who don’t believe they will get the state pension. We all vaguely recognise a link between national insurance and pensions, so when people hear the Chancellor say he wants to scrap national … Continue reading
Will Hunt’s pension bombshell catch you with your pants down?
It’s a proper old fashioned scoop for the Treasury. While the pension minister and the DWP are having cosy round tables with the PLSA in Edinburgh, Jeremy Hunt’s getting the press-packs ready for a full scale onslaught on bad practice … Continue reading
The financial consequences of dying
We seem to be a nation pre-occupied not so much with the after-life as the after-death. Perhaps our obsession with planning ahead, whether it be funeral costs or the settlement of our affairs with the tax-man, allows us a … Continue reading
“A word in your ear about pensions, Jeremy”
“Jeremy, as your new number two, I’m supposed to be getting my feet under the table right now, but I couldn’t help noticing you have an autumn statement to make next week and since I didn’t get my … Continue reading
The Mansion House reforms are the right things to do.
A pensions expert queries why there are no letters in the Financial Times supporting Jeremy Hunt’s Mansion House Reforms. One answer is that the Chancellor of the Exchequer has a mandate given him by the Prime Minister, by … Continue reading
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Tagged Christopher Clumbus, Jeremy Hunt, John Keats, Nicholas Lyons, Pensions
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The price of taking “wanted” risk off the table; Mansion House’s sub-text
There are two ways for a Chancellor to promise £1,000 extra pension to us. The proper way is through the state pension, in 2022 the Government didn’t uplift the state pension by inflation meaning millions will be losing out … Continue reading
Steve Webb, fresh from the Mansion House – 10.30 today at Pension PlayPen
Steve is one of Britain’s premier pension commentators , having been Minister for Pensions during the Coalition. Now he’s a consultant for LCP and he appears on every platform from the Martin Lewis Money Show to the Work and Pensions … Continue reading
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Tagged CDC, DB, dc, Jeremy Hunt, LGPS, Mansion House, pension, Steve Webb
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