Here Today, Gone Tomorrow – More Industry Spin
We look at a recent report from the insurance industry which uses straw men and dubious assumptions to push the idea that annuities are still a good thing.
Category: News
Weekly Roundup, 31st March 2015
Weekly Roundup for the UK Private Investor: QE, emerging markets, robots, unpicking Picketty, election jitters and don’t blow your pension.
Economics Manifesto – New Savings Culture
We look at the Economics Manifesto from Policy Exchange. Will its proposals lead to a new savings culture in Britain, or is there an elephant in the room?
Budget 2015
We take a look at Osborne’s last Budget of this Parliament – pension lifetime allowance, ISAs, VCTs, incomes & savings tax, Help to Buy ISA and oil tax cuts.
Weekly Roundup, 18th March 2015
Weekly Roundup for the UK Private Investor: savings inequality, tax-free pensions, the housing crisis, traded annuities, art, care costs and wages.
Weekly Roundup, 10th March 2015
Weekly Roundup for the UK Private Investor: tax avoidance, VCTs, pensions, P2P, crowdfunding, farmland, trading rules, Apple and property taxes
Weekly Roundup, 4th March 2015
We begin today’s weekly roundup as usual in the FT. FTSE-100 all-time high In fact, we begin where we left off last week, with the FTSE-100 hitting record highs. Judith…
Are Pensions Finished?
Today’s post is about a paper from Michael Johnston of the Centre for Policy Studies. The paper calls for additional protections for savers in the light of the upcoming pension…
London Forex Show – 20th February 2015 (2)
Today’s post is the second part of my review of the presentations in the main conference room at last week’s London Forex show at Olympia. The presentations In the previous post…
Weekly Roundup, 26th February 2015
We begin this week’s roundup in the FT, with John Authers. Active fund management John’s column was about the misleading marketing used by active fund managers, and the shortcomings of…
