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Cheltenham 2016 – can it get any better?
Well I suppose the sun could have shined and it could have been about 15 degrees warmer (like last year) but I’ve never had as good a day’s racing as Day 1 of the 2016 Cheltenham festival! Smug? You … Continue reading
Hurrah for Cheltenham – hurrah for the Pension Play Pen!
I think we started the tradition of taking a bus to Cheltenham in 1995. Jonathan Poll and I decided that as Eagle Star was in Cheltenham and Cheltenham hosted the greatest festival of jumps racing the world has ever … Continue reading
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Tagged betting, Cheltenham, cheltenham festival, drinking, pension playpen
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Playing pass the parcel with the pensions time bomb
Experts talk about Australia or the Nordics as countries which have “got pensions right”, but what do they mean by “right”? Can we de-fuse the demographic time-bomb? Or must politicians resign themselves to playing pass the parcel with a suspect … Continue reading
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Tagged adequacy, international, pass the parcel, pension playpen, pensions, Play, Politics, time bomb
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There’s not much occupational about an occupational pension
The decision of the High Court to overturn the Pension Ombudsman’s ruling that Ms Hughes could take benefits into an occupational pension scheme set up expressly to invest in overseas property may have wider ramifications than outlined in my recent … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Verde, Ms Hughes, occupational pension, pension, pension playpen, Retirement, workplace pension
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“And the language that he used!” Does Workie speak?
Go to him now, he calls you- you can’t refuse If you ain’t got nothing- you got nothing to lose! Great lines taken out of context from Bob Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone“. The link takes you to a … Continue reading
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Tagged articulate, measures of support, pension, pension playpen, Workie, workplace pension
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And time goes on – and so do I
If this isn’t a line from a Johnny Cash or Hank Williams song, then I may have just written the history of Country and Western in one line! Time does go on, we are now well into the next critical … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, choice, FCA, Financial services, pension, pension playpen, pensions, Retirement, The Pensions Regulator, workid, workplace Pensions
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Pensions need to be sold for the sausage not the sizzle.
A great observation from Steve Groves, CEO of partnership this morning. @henryhtapper @tcfDAN @clivewaller healthy people were buying to early. Lie expectancy increased 10yrs and annuitisation age didn't move… — Steve Groves (@Sjg3G) January 12, 2016 By “buying” Steve means … Continue reading
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Tagged advice, annuity, auto enrolment, Business, Business and Economy, dc pensions, DWP, Employment, Financial services, Government, National Employment Savings Trust, Pension new, pension playpen, pensions, personal pension, Retirement, Sausage, sizzle, Steve Groves
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A right to debate or a right to restitution? #WASPI
For many of us, men retire at 65 and women at 60, that was hard coded into our learning like the multiplication tables and it’s clearly quite hard to unlearn. Steve Bee makes a good point on twitter "When is … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Higham, Debate, DWP, Employment, Government, house of commons, Men, pension, Pension new, pension playpen, pensions, Pensions Minister, Retirement, rights, Ros Altmann, SPA, State Pension Age, steve bee, Steve Groves, Steve Webb, WASPI
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What will we remember 2016 for? The Pension PlayPen lunch
The Pension Play Pen lunch group has met every month since December 2008 and is something of an institution at the Counting House. It’s a chance for advisers, pension managers , investment gurus and harmless idiots like me, to spend … Continue reading
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Tagged auto enrolment, Business, Con Keating, Employment, Lunch, pension, Pension new, pension playpen, pensions, Retirement, TEE
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Self-help – Can you “DIY pensions”?
“The instruction manual is missing” – the first thing my partner said when she opened her new smartphone, I’d kindly donated her for Christmas. I was close to having a Michael Winner moment. “That’s because you learn how to do … Continue reading