Phillip Inman noted in the Guardian yesterday that it was entirely possible for someone to have saved for twenty years in a personal pension using
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The price you’re paying for the government’s decision to abandon the economy – £100bn wiped off the value of pension funds
As the FT notes: Turbulent markets have played havoc with the finances of the UK’s corporate pension schemes. One key official measure has shown that
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Why stock markets can never deliver pensions for all
If you want an explanation for why I think it irrational to base our pension hopes on stock market investment then this is it: Credit:
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This is not a pension reform – it’s simply a 3% pay cut
I support those on strike today. I think they are right to protest about the plans the government is making to reduce pension rights. They are arbitrary. Worse, as
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Last year British business raised £1.3bn in new share issues despite the fact that we paid £80bn into pension funds
According to the FT: Last year, UK companies raised just £1.3bn in new equity, net of buy-backs and acquisitions. As my research has shown, we
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Great news – Osborne looks at cutting higher rate tax relief on pensions
I’ve long argued that the wealthiest in this country do far too well out of the tax system. In 2008 in the TUC publication ‘The
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My speech to the National Pensioner’s Convention today
I’m speaking to the National Pensioner’s Convention today at Blackpool. It’s a long way to go from Norfolk to make a speech, but pensioners matter,
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Right now it’s a 3% extra pension tax for state employees – next year it will be 3% for private sector employees too
I suspect that there will be a lot of private sector employees, encouraged by the likes of the Daily Mail, who will complain about pubic
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Fair pensions debate – why trust beats contract
I have been reflecting further on the Fair Pensions debate on fiduciary duty yesterday evening. One speaker – and I do not have his name
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