Tag Archives: SERPS
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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