I've just come across this letter from Smithers, covering DB pensions in general and the USS in particular. https://smithers.co.uk/extending-the-liabilities-time-horizon-is-key-to-pensions-reform/
Great. A chance to nit-pick something from Steve Webb. The Married Woman’s Option finished in 1977, not 1978. SERPS was…
I was told by the Pensions Service, that if I divorced my husband before I retired, I would get a…
Success in applying the rules set out in law is not reliant on loopholes (I prefer educated projections of future…
Tag Archives: music
Can technology solve our savings problems?
We are putting too large a trust in technology to manage our pensions. The brave new world of Fintech may give us the pension dashboard, pot aggregation and robo-advised spending mechanisms, but are we ready for self-empowerment? In this article I … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Young, Financial adviser, Fund Choice, Government Actuary, music, Robo-adviser, Technology, Technology solutiosn
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A tale so sad I cried writing it down
I had my Christmas lunch with Brian. Brian is homeless. He is 69. He will not use hostels or night-shelters as this would mean mixing with people who drink. He does not drink as his family was a … Continue reading
Out of my comfort zone
I spent much of yesterday in and around the resort of Maspalomas, Gran Canaria’s answer to Blackpool. Masplaomas brings together an area of outstanding natural beauty with tat I spent more time in tat, than beauty and deliberately so. I … Continue reading
I believe in a promised land
Being on a rock mid-Atlantic gives you some new perspectives. Like why our jam doesn’t taste of fruit – and how we manage to keep our dogs quiet in the morning. Listening to the dogs of Santa Lucia shout accross … Continue reading
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Tagged Clinton, darkness on the edge of town, Donald Trump, election, John Mauldin, music, Per Andelius, Springsteen, Trump
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What do you mean “getting old”?
Hope I die before I get old Today’s my son goes up to Cambridge, just as I did 36 years ago. He’ll make his own way, I am off to France to watch the Arc de Triomphe. It feels … Continue reading
Face to face with a man who changed the world
his website looks like he hasn’t come across social media yetThe man in the blue suit is Bernard Rhodes, who delivered a spell-binding monologue for nearly three hours last night at the British Library. Bernard Rhodes If you don’t know … Continue reading
Posted in Music, pensions, punk
Tagged #punk40, Bernard Rhodes, British Library, music, punk, The Clash, The Sex Pistols
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Blogging all over the world (cheer up!)
The thing about Rocking All Over the World is its dumb enthusiasm. And I like it , and I like it and I like it and like – here we go -rocking all over the world. Dumb enthusiasm isn’t easy. Most people can’t do it but … Continue reading
Chip off the old block?
My son Oliver has a blog and to my surprise has asked me to advertise it here … so here it is http://www.tapsport-o.blogspot.com It is a strange place. He doesn’t appear to have any interest in collective DC or annuities … Continue reading
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Tagged annuities, Business, Collecting, Financial services, Home, Insurance, music, Ne-Yo, Recreation, Twickenham, United States, yeovil town fc
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Top bum ,sedition and Gadaffi the penguin
“What” , you might be asking, ” is going on here?”. Continue reading
Posted in Facebook, poetry, social media, twitter
Tagged BBC, croydon, Cyberbury, Facebook, Gaddafi, International Criminal Court, Libya, London riots, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Muammar al-Gaddafi, music, NATO, poetry, Politics, Rage against the Machine, Sex Pistols, social media, Society, Tripoli, twitter
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Life in the fast lane
I am writing to you from the fast lane of the M3 adjacent to Bracknell. Is writing therapeutic? I am not sure, but I suspect that you are probably asking yourself whether I am writing and driving at the same … Continue reading
Posted in Fawlty Towers, poetry
Tagged Basil Fawlty, BMW, Bracknell, Business, Fatherhood, Fawlty Towers, John Cleese, London riots, Manchester, music, poetry, Television
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Extending time horizons can ease short-term funding pressure, but it shifts risk toward younger members. Reform should make those intergenerational…