As the FT has noted this morning: The UK government’s plan for pension reform has been called into question after Bank of England governor Andrew
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With apologies to the few exceptions, who prove the general truth of this:

Most people don’t understand how pensions really work. Not politicians, not City insiders, and probably not you. In this video, I explain why pensions aren’t
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I received this data from Hargreaves Lansdown, the financial advisor, in an email this morning: Only 17% of people think the state pension will still
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There are varying estimates of how much total benefit payments to people who have some form of disability, or who are paid benefits relating to
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I shared this on social media last night: Why do we only talk about the costs of benefits for those least well off, and not
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The idea that bond vigilantes can set government policy suits the City and neoliberal politicians, who’d like it to be true. But is it? This
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Trump wants to use tax as a weapon in international trade wars. That could backfire horribly for him. This is the audio version: This is
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There has been discussion on pension fund management here over the last day or two. My suggestions when making my comments were threefold: Risk is
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