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Tag Archives: SERPS
WASPI’s drowning out another minority – those who stayed “in”.
There is a second WASPI petition. There’s a new #WASPI petition – please sign it! Currently at 11k signatures… How soon 100k? https://t.co/ijhUQohWtk — Sarah Pennells(@Savvy_Woman) September 13, 2017 The WASPI women are well organised and have a widening support … Continue reading
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Too Expensive to Keep? Is it time to break our promises to the baby boomers?
In a stunning lecture delivered without notes to a “senior” audience at the Oxford and Cambridge Club last night, Paul Johnson helped us ask these questions of ourselves. For his audience was by and large – precisely the entitled class … Continue reading
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Tagged baby boomers, Business, demographics, Economics, Employment, Financial services, Paul Johnson, pensions, Retirement, SERPS, Social economics, state pension
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The New State Pension; winners and losers!
Today I am going to be on TV, which is making me nervous-I’m surprised how nervous – I expect it’s the fear of the unknown and it’s about having to make stupid choices (tie/no tie; white or patterned shirt etc). … Continue reading
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Tagged BBC, BBC news, Business, New State Pension, pension playpen, pensions, Retirement, S2P, SERPS
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Let the canny worm lie?
The problem with cans of worms is that the cans degrade and in the end the worms get out, and cause a stink. Over the weekend, the Telegraph that acts as a professional “worm can opener” has been turning its … Continue reading
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Tagged Alistair Darling, contracting-out, DWP, GMP, inheritable serps, inherited serps, pension, pensions, Ros Altmann, SERPS, state pension, Telegraph
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There’s a Lamborghini pension in a showroom near you
A universal Lamborghini pension? At a seminar yesterday, Paul Lewis explained to an audience of IFAs that the full new state pension was a Lamborghini pension. What he meant was that if you wanted to buy an equivalent pension from … Continue reading
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Tagged lamborghini, pension, Ros Altmann, SERPS, State Second Pension
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Why the FCA should take a leaf out of tPR’s book.
The Pensions Regulator have been re-born over the last five years and become focussed on helping advisers, trustees and employees solve pension problems. They have started treating us as customers and not potential criminals. Sadly, this attitudinal shift doesn’t seem … Continue reading
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Tagged annuity, auto enrolment, Business, contracting-out, de-risking, Employment, FCA, Financial Ombudsman, FOS, Foundation Pension, pension, Pension new, pension playpen, pension transfers, Pensions Regulator, Public Sector Pensions, regulation, Retirement, S2P, SERPS, Single State Pension, Time Bar, TPR, transfers
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What price certainty?
The cost of certainty changes in proportion to the amount of certainty. The more flexible your guarantee, the more it’s going to cost you. I … Continue reading
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Tagged Cost, Germany, Government, Leeds, pension, Retirement, SERPS, State Earnings-Related Pension Scheme
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