The Microsoft references are rhetorically effective, but analytically misleading. Microsoft went public in 1986 and did not pay a dividend…
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As cryptocurrency adoption continues to grow, scams, hacking incidents, fraudulent investments, and lost wallet credentials remain major challenges. TECHY FORCE…
The self-employed commonly have very lumpy income streams plus periods of feast and famine. Their lack of income security means…
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Truss closes on Mordaunt, Sunak staying on in third.
With the Tory leadership campaign continuing to look a three horse race, the gap between the fillies is narrowing while the colt continues to stay on at one pace and is now a clear third in the betting. On the … Continue reading
Pensions Minister resigns
I resign with great regret, given there are serious ongoing issues that need addressing ranging from cost of living support, to legislation, & parliamentary debates. It should not take the resignation of 50 colleagues, but sadly the PM has left … Continue reading
RPI v CPI – the evidence so far; (Jon&Con)
This article is from Jon Spain and Con Keating, intellectual powerhouses of this blog. It asks us took again at the relationship between RPI and CPI Financial services professionals commonly state that, over the long term, RPI increases will … Continue reading
Has politics saved football?
For decades we have heard footballing pundits moan about the politicization of football, it’s worth posting this paragraph of an excellent BBC article on the European Super League. The government’s promise this week to legislate, effectively in order to grant … Continue reading
The politics behind extending auto-enrolment
Yesterday the TUC conference discussed widening the scope of auto-enrolment to include the self-employed, the youngest workers and those on low incomes within the financial net of auto-enrolment. Yesterday UBER finally admitted that it controlled its workers to a degree … Continue reading
A year of staying safe – statistics show how we survived 2020 (and will 2021)
The latest statistics from the CMI show that were it not for COVID – 2020 would have been the year of “staying alive” The CMI judge that we have now surpassed 100,000 excess deaths in the pandemic. Their quote explains … Continue reading
A Minister Drinking the Regulator’s Kool-Aid – No Consolation
An article by Con Keating The preamble to a recent article in Professional Pensions by the Pensions Minister, Guy Opperman, read: ” In the fourth of a five-part series of articles for PP, pensions minister Guy Opperman sets out how … Continue reading
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Magnanimous in defeat
To all at Incisive – well done boys and girls- what would we do without you even if you could’nt run an election in Zimbabwe! Continue reading
Pension Playpen lunch- the new consensus
Next lunch is Monday December 6th- same place but we’ll be doing a Christmas special. Continue reading
Swapping away your pension increases?
We’re seeing a lot of sponsors asking their trustees to agree that members can be offered a cash inducement or a higher level pension in exchange for their giving up their entitlement to future increased in their pensions. So what should … Continue reading
Standard Life was fine until Gordon Brown started playing 'ducks and drakes' during the last century - now we have…