Tag Archives: Norma Cohen
Don’t buy house-price “project fear”.
The realisable value of the property or leasehold that you own is subject to market forces. The Conservative line is that they will support the property owning classed by keeping prices higher. House prices do not necessarily rise, they go … Continue reading
Ground rents and the fiction of “pensioner as victim”.
Yesterday I railed about the capture of the pensioner to justify the shocking abuse of the ground rent system. It seems there are many of the same mind, not least Charles Payne I’m not – in this blog – … Continue reading
Join us this morning to stop the freehold pension scam.
This morning’s session of Pension PlayPen will see two campaigners at opposite ends of their career , speak out with one voice against the ongoing calamity of our freehold/leasehold system of home ownership. Norma Cohen , should be know to … Continue reading
Free link to Norma and Harry’s leasehold question time – Tuesday 10.30
Having conspicuously failed to find any opportunity to discuss the issues facing residential leaseholders at the PLSA investment conference, my attention turns to next Tuesday (March 5th’s) Pension PlayPen coffee morning , when Norma Cohen, Harry Scoffin and I will … Continue reading
USS; are UCU and UUK missing the big picture?
This is nonsense. If universities can’t pay the required #USS DB contribution, then simply move to DC, which was of course the original plan. Universities backed down in the face of strikes https://t.co/rYtU1azGjM via @timeshighered — John Ralfe (@JohnRalfe1) November … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, CDC, USS, Value for Money
Tagged AgeWage, Business and Economy, CDC, dc pensions, Defined benefit pension plan, DWP, Guy Opperman, Jo O'grady, John Ralfe, Mike Otsuka, Norma Cohen, pension
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Are John and Norma right – are we facing the end of mass-retirement?
@JosephineCumbo could you pls explain why “open” DB schemes are less risky than closed schemes, and should therefore be subject to weaker funding requirements? “Josephine Cumbo: Open and closed case @@corpadviser https://t.co/u3loRiZxB6 — John Ralfe (@JohnRalfe1) October 30, 2020 The … Continue reading
Posted in pensions
Tagged DB Funding Code, de-risking, John Ralfe, Lockdown, Norma Cohen, Pensions, Ros Altmann, TPR
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The human cost of marking our pensions to the market
The debate at the CSFI mid week between Norma Cohen and John Ralfe on one side and Jon Spain and Dennis Leech on the other – seems to have focussed on the economics of pensions. I’d like to widen … Continue reading
Posted in dc pensions, pensions, Pensions Regulator, Popcorn Pensions, workplace pensions
Tagged CDC, CSFI, DB, dc, John Ralfe, Mark to Market, Norma Cohen, pensions
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Fund managers -Norma Cohen is still watching!
The great British financial journalist Norma Cohen rarely publishes in the FT these days, when she does, it is to great effect. This week she published a quiet and thoughtful piece on the impact MIFID II is having on … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, David Pitt-Watson, economics, journalism, pensions
Tagged chris sier, financial advice, ft, fund charges, fund management, jo cumbo, Norma Cohen, pensions, Terry Smith
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Searching for the Loch Ness Monster
The Investment Association has concluded that hidden charges within funds are like the Loch Ness Monster, much talked about but never seen. Presumably those of us consumers seeking to find the financial Nessie are like the cranks who sit upon … Continue reading
Posted in pensions
Tagged Financial services, fund managers, Funds, Investment Association, Loch Ness Monster, Nessie, Norma Cohen, pension, pensions, Pitt-Watson
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