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Are different supermarket’s strawberries fungible? Is there VFM but in price?

I have been pondering this, My partner, who doesn’t like strawberries says they are and I say that Waitrose No 1 strawberries are different and are not fungible with Aldi strawberries which are half the price. I want to have … Continue reading

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Let Jo Cumbo and Nest have this debate in front of 14 million savers!

There are two competing views on how 14 million saver’s should have their money invested. This is a view that accords with the research that Nest commissioned from its members. This is the view of Josephine Cumbo, a longtime friend … Continue reading

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Savers need to know how their savings did – say these heroes of VFM!

Jo is right, how we have done with our savings should be important to us in the UK as it is in her native Australia But it goes further than the analysis from Corporate Adviser (good as that is) Olly … Continue reading

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Google DeepMind or Thames Water? Can you or your employer’s DC “workplace pension” take the risk?

Jo Cumbo is spot on here; I am sure that Jo is furious that pension mandation could leave some schemes the worse for doing what they had to do. She sees things through the eyes of employers and through those … Continue reading

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Google DeepMind or Thames Water? Can you or your employer’s DC “workplace pension” take the risk?

Jo Cumbo is spot on here; I am sure that Jo is furious that pension mandation could leave some schemes the worse for doing what they had to do. She sees things through the eyes of employers and through those … Continue reading

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“Pension wealth” is subject to “EET” – exempt, exempt – but taxed when spent!

Jo Cumbo in an excellent article charts the complexity to the rich of having money as “pension wealth”. The furore over IHT over pension “wealth” is a  belief that for the rich, pensions were “EEE”,  not “EET” as they are … Continue reading

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I took her CDC baited hook and was landed by Jo Cumbo!

Following this year’s  Pensions UK investment conference I was told that my press badge would not be renewed. I was not a journalist and I spent too much time expounding my commercial views and not enough the views of other. … Continue reading

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Can trustees go against the laws of parliament? Members elect Governments.

So runs this morning’s headline in the FT (Mary McDougall). The argument that has been put forward by Pensions Minister Torsten Bell and argued for by political economists such as Will Hutton. The debate by an FT journalist (Jo Cumbo) … Continue reading

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Blockchain to administrate- yes; crypto to pay my pension – “?”

I got a message from Jo Cumbo for my comment on the use of Crypto as an investment to fund pensions yesterday. I couldn’t comment, because I don’t have the capacity to get to terms with it and because there … Continue reading

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Workplace pension funds – no longer beginners at investment – let them past a charge cap.

This from Jonathan Stapleton in a balanced article , offset by an unbalanced headline. It noted that, in January this year, it had set out almost 50 pro-growth measures – adding it had now delivered “the vast majority of these … Continue reading

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