Tag Archives: Telegraph
Can Reeves get her money back by taxing our pensions?
For the first time in a while I have good things to say about the Telegraph’s reporting on pensions. Rob White is right to point out that with restrictions on raising income tax, the Chancellor might choose to go … Continue reading
Mr Farage taps the banks for £35bn – as predicted on this blog.
Edi Truell tells me that a few weeks back, he sat next to Andrew Bailey and Nick Lyons and suggested to the Guvnor he might like to divert some of his discretionary interest payments made on the QE debt to … Continue reading
“Your retirement salary” – the pension best seller.
How to use your lifetime of pension savings to pay yourself an income in your retirement Richard Dyson & Richard Evans, the Daily Telegraph’s senior personal finance journalists, have written a book. I like the title “Your retirement salary” … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, age wage, pensions
Tagged AgeWage, pensions, Retirement, richard dyson, richard evans, Telegraph
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The Transparency Zeitgeist is upon us
I am a frugal man, the £3.50 I paid for this morning’s FT was grudgingly passed to my newsagent. But I wanted to capture the headline and read about Josephine’s reporting of a meeting with my friends Andy Agethangelou and … Continue reading
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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Our parents’ houses.
property, downsizing, home, residence, sheltered housing, family, children, grandchildren Continue reading
Posted in later life, London, Pension Freedoms, pensions, Retirement
Tagged downsize, Fulham Palace Road, Legal & General, Nigel Williams, Oscar, pension, properties, Property, Shaftesbury, Telegraph, winchester
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Doctors are pension millionaires – so why are they striking?
My Dad’s a doctor and in retirement – he has a great pension and who can begrudge him it? He retired 25 years ago as a senior partner – on about one third of the final salary he’s be on today. Like him, I … Continue reading
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Tagged Actuary, BMA, British Medical Association, Canada, Defined benefit pension plan, Doctor (Doctor Who), doctors, Doctors (2000 TV series), Industrial action, London, National Health Service, pension, Price index, Private sector, public sector, Salary, Strike action, Tax, Telegraph
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Who’ll win this Pension Referendum?
We are about to have a pensions referendum. Votes will be cast not at the ballot box but through an obscure process known as “the opt-out“. Over the next five years , more than 5m people, around 20% of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Civil service, Government, Insurance, pension, Steve Webb, Stock market, Telegraph, William Hill
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