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The power of what we are.
It is a shame that while we are trying to find ways to grow our economy thinking long-term (pension funded) we are fearing short term tariffs from the USA as if our financial futures depended on the whims of a … Continue reading
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Tagged advice, Government, Insurance, pension, politics, social media, Treasury
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One thing got my goat on this. “Redirecting DB assets to DC”….
My email’s contain a number of interesting missives. Here’s one I will post anony-mouse -ly. The mailer will probably be cross with me for compromising him/her – if you were at the said event, maybe you remember! I wasn’t. One … Continue reading
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Tagged advice, Business and Economy, dc pensions, Government, Insurance, pension, Pensions, politics, Retirement
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Field called our DB pensions “an economic miracle”….Reeves knows why
At 11.30 am on a Sunday morning, Mark Kleinman of Sky News disturbed the sermon with this news. The Sky article was quickly followed by one from the FT, with Mary and George Parker referencing Sky’s coverage at 5pm … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, Defined benefit pension plan, DWP, Employment, Financial services, pension, Pension new, Pensions, politics, Retirement
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Today is for tomorrow, today we start again – VOTE
Two hour before the polls open and I am sitting in my flat in the City of London waiting to vote. My eye is caught by an article in the FT – “How the Conservatives lost hold of the South” … Continue reading
“We stand on the threshold of a landmark election” – Chris Mason
This is the headline the BBC’s Chris Mason gave to his pre-election blog which he told Newscast voters he thought up in the middle seat of a car careering around Britain following our political leaders. He told listeners to the … Continue reading
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Tagged Davey, Green Party, politics, Starmer, Sunak, UK general election
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Pension tax-relief needs re-branding as “matching”.
We are due after July 4th, a general review of pensions, which has got the big guns at the IFS excited and top gun- Steve Webb (ex IFS) very excited indeed. So excited that he has gone to press (FT … Continue reading
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Tagged auto enrolment, DWP, incentives, pension, Pension new, Pensions, politics, Retirement, Steve Webb, tax-relief
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Tory’s phoney pension promise exposed by LCP
This article appears in i this morning and is written by Deputy Money Editor Callum Mason. I subscribe to i and suggest you do too – by pressing this link. More than one in five pensioners would still pay tax … Continue reading
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Tagged annuity, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, Pensions, politics, Steve Webb, triple-lock plus
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Risk-free politics is a real turn-off!
OMG this election is a yawn! The weary drone of Rishi Sunak’s rain soaked prophecy “now is the moment for Britain to choose its future” is in the dim and distant. At the time the Tories were 21% behind … Continue reading
Whatever became of inter-generational solidarity?
Intergenerational solidarity is best understood within the context of shared expectations and obligations regarding the ageing of individuals and the succession of generations. This contract across generations and age groups represents the norms operating at the micro- and macro-levels of social … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, Defined benefit pension plan, DWP, Pensions, politics, Retirement
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Will the new inequalities of Dutch pension prove easier to stomach than the old ones?
The Dutch pension reforms will involve the transfer of all accrued and future DB pension rights to the new DC system, without the consent of the member. “It is by no means certain that each member will benefit” from this … Continue reading