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Pensioners look on as insurers gloat.
There is something wrong about this. Insurers should not gloat that they will be investing what is currently our pension fund money. The insurance companies expect £550bn of our money to insure and reinsure promises already secured in pension schemes. … Continue reading
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Your £50k pension surplus negotiable with your DB trustees and the boss!
Yesterday I sat through a day in the City listening to insurers talking about the safety of giving them your money while everyone else wanted to talk about what to do with the surplus funds not needed to pay the … Continue reading
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Pensions Schemes should be managed for pensioners, not as a business problem
This sounds likely a way of parking a lorry in a car park. It’s the wrong vehicle in the wrong place at the wrong time. Pension schemes may not be convenient for American parents but they are very important to … Continue reading
Civic minded pensioners don’t come cheap; future generations need pensions (even more than houses)
Stephen Bush’s brilliant article was inspired by him sitting in on trials and discovering magistrates in their seventies, he looks at the board of the flats he’s a leaseholder of and he finds grandparent pensioners looking after children so that … Continue reading
The cost of defending our country on pensions and pensioners
If the currency of the years to come is measured in our capacity to defend ourselves (hard power) where does the currency get created? Our prime minister has spoken over the weekend of the need for us to bring forward … Continue reading
Why pensioners aren’t giving up work (or paying much tax)
This is an extraordinary story about what is happening to people of my age (64). We aren’t giving up and we’re looking at double bubble fiscal fun when we reach our state pension age. What Helena Kelly has got to … Continue reading
The questions on the “leasehold cartel” that pensioners need answering
This is what the Government is saying to the one million people who are reckoned to being fleeced by free holders. It is good but it is not good enough. Harry Scoffin and the Free Leaseholders will bank what … Continue reading
Should pensions and pensioners feel the pain?
It is clear to me that pensions will come in for a kicking in October 2024. I expect the 2024 tax raid to be as impactful as Gordon Brown’s raid on dividend tax relief at a similar stage in the … Continue reading
Peace on the railways , but will pensioners pay the price?
After Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, scrapped the winter fuel allowance for most pensioners, Caroline Abrahams of Age UK said: “We have been inundated with messages from pensioners who are angry and upset about the impact on them of losing their winter fuel payment this … Continue reading