Do You Wanna Know a Secret? State pensions are not about to increase massively, the @WASPI campaign for all of the women that have been treated pretty poorly buy succesive Governments are not going to get the result they want. But Richard Harrington the new Pensions Minister still doesn’t have a clue about the real […]
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Invest In Unit Trusts? Like millions of others, perhaps you have OEIC’s or pension funds, managed insurance funds. There are many names for them, and many providers. One way the industry helps itself – by adding in some complexity. Bit like trying to compare mobile phone charges etc. Have you checked the fees? Think you’ll
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Twitter has been alight for me over the last couple of weeks. With RAF_IFA getting involved with another of his Twitter buddies. I wasn’t going to bother with a formal reply, but as I posted one for Annie Shaw it seemed fair to do one for Al. Now Al seems to have a couple of
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Interesting week in December 2016, Annie Shaw (an unqualified financial commentator) decided to start on Twitter, her and a number of Finance Industry trolls hawked around with some unfriendly banter. A financial journalist Annie Shaw wanted to know how the Money Trainers Pension Training was legal? Her tweet was quickly followed up by another couple
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Phillip Hammond speaks Orignally article appeared on MoneyMarketing a few weeks back. Hammond weighs in on pensions and property debate The comments below are taken from the article and sum up some of these issues. There is a big problem with these schemes. Not only from a funding perspective, because the taxpayer is going
Investment product charges, fund charges. Are you being ripped off. This report highlights some of the of the truth. It’s a bit wordy, stick with the summary. Investment Charges Report
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Target Life have not appeared on my radar for a long time. All that changed this morning when a new client called to chat about them. Of course I was pleased to rack my brains to remember all there was to know about these plans and indeed there was a lot about Target Life that
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Today’s news seems to indicate that the pension provider/ life assurance provider Abbey Life has been sold for close to £1b by its German Owner Deutsche Bank. Interestingly Deutsche Bank is having some problems, mainly due to the heavy fines it’s received in recent years. Abbey Life are a pretty poor provider of pension
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My in-laws hit their mid 70’s with no formal plans in place, their pensions kicked in at 65 and they have had a very happy and healthy life, still living in the family home and still very much in love. Of course health wise I never expected them to start getting frail so quickly,
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