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Tom and Michael’s portable personal pension V2

I’ve been slow on the uptake with regards Michael Johnson and Tom McPhail’s new paper on “pot for life” It’s been sat in my inbox a few days and meanwhile Patrick Hosking has covered it in the Times. calling the … Continue reading

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Why financial education can only go so far….

You know when you have a guilty thought and you can’t share it with anyone. And then, quite by chance, someone repeats that thought back at you – and you feel relieved, ashamed and a little bit angry all at … Continue reading

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Heard the one about the Englishman, the Australian and the American?

If you are a fan of such jokes, read no further – the Social Market Foundation’s  (SMF) study “Golden Years? What freedom and choice will mean for UK pensioners“, contains all three characters (unsexed), but there the joking ends. This is … Continue reading

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