Pensions| Resolution: In Search of the Wholly Trail! |Investments 20 or so years ago there were about 100 different life companies in the UK – these consisted of pensions companies and investment companies, life companies etc., who were…
Read More...Investments|The banks & a matter of trust! |Pensions Oh dear, Oh dear, Oh dear – the banks have been caught ‘at it’ again. A recent under-cover investigation by the organisation Which! has found serious examples of poor …
Read More...Pensions & Investments| Making your last £10 coincide with your last breath! Many people build up odd pension pots during their lifetime and often bits and pieces of investments also, along the way, viz., PEPS, Tessa’s ISA’s the o…
Read More...Annuities – are not the only fruit in the basket! How many consumers think that when they get to retirement their pension ‘pot’ has to be turned into an Annuity? Well, according to the Association of British Insurers research publishe…
Read More...Pensions| Euro Ghosties and Greek Ghoulies|Investments I was talking to a client the other day about the ‘happenings’ in the Eurozone, and in particular the situation with the passengers (Ministers) on the Euro Gravy Train ‘…
Read More...At a stroke yesterday the Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou stunned the markets, to say nothing of Ms Merkel and Ms Sarkozy, by calling for a Referendum on the crisis in Greece. This one statement had the effect of driving down markets by over 2.2…
Read More...France, the Euro, and a Printing Press – the answer to a Mademoiselles’ Prayer. Last week I spent a week in France. The purpose of my visit was to oversee some building work being carried out on a property (Farmhouse) that we bought in 1997…
Read More...Well, here we go AGAIN! Front page headlines in The Daily Telegraph ‘Prudent savers hit by ‘excessive’ hidden fees on pensions’ – If it bleeds, it leads! is the mantra as far as newspapers are concerned, but once again I r…
Read More...Pensions| ’….caught in a land-slide, no escape from reality….’ Fans of Queen will instantly recognise the words above ‘…caught in a land-slide…’ etc., as being one of the key phrases from Bohemian …
Read More...Game Changer Threatens Cautious Managed funds – FTimes – Oh! Really? That is a headline in Friday’s (7th October 2011) Financial Times newspaper. It is a particular dislike of mine when newspapers, and in particular journalists who p…
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