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What do we mean by “risk transfer” – we’ll find out this morning!

This morning , Pension PlayPen will have a proper debate about what we mean by “risk transfer”. Well done Iain and Claire for stepping forward to discuss “Risk Transfer” in the Pension PlayPen. We have a healthy disrespect for the … Continue reading

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David Robbins on the budget – as good as it gets for pension folk

No comment needed – an hour of excellence – thanks David

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Budget a “no score draw” for growth – Haldane

  Andy Haldane seems to be Rachel Reeves’ favorite economist. They worked together at the Bank of England and he now runs the Royal Society of the Arts, a kind of think-tank that is left-leaning enough not to annoy her … Continue reading

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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

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Truell climbs every mountain- (stream from here)

The hour long webcast of Edi Truell talking from a Swiss train to 40 or so Pension Playmates is not an exciting watch. We do not see the glacial peaks or the vertiginous cliffs that the train passes, we see … Continue reading

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Truell on Truell, pensions and the power of capital

This morning I will be talking with Edi Truell on the power of capital to put funded pensions right. The event is at 10.30am and the “coffee morning” lasts an hour. If you are a subscriber to the pension playpen … Continue reading

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What’s Edi Truell up to next?

    The immediate answer to that question is “skiing in the Swiss Alps”, but I don’t expect that’s what you really want to know. If you want to hear it from his own mouth, you can join a call … Continue reading

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Angie Brooks subs for Margaret Snowdon @PP coffee morning -10.30 am

Margaret Snowdon has had a family bereavement and cannot make this morning’s coffee morning, we wish her well at a troubling time. Angela Brooks has agreed , at the shortest of notice, to step into Margaret’s shoes and talk with … Continue reading

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Margaret Snowdon on the victims of pension scams

  At  next Tuesday’s coffee morning  (30 Jan)  we are looking forward to being joined by Margaret Snowdon OBE. Margaret recently appeared on the BBC Breakfast sofa to explain about pension scamming and how some people have been hit with … Continue reading

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Ros Altmann on being Ros Altmann – Today 10.30am

Ros Altmann like Edi Truell and a few other of my friends, is a force for good who gets a fair bit of stick, Neither Ros (nor Edi for that matter) mind much. Being thick-skinned is a matter of course … Continue reading

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