Today’s Blog

I laughed when I read the following blog post. http://www.moneymarketing.co.uk/regulation/hogarth-we-will-soon-know-the-winners-and-losers-of-the-rdr/1046231.article It is clear the winner of the RDR are the professional bodies like the CII who will have made a lot of...

Today’s Blog

The following article in the Scotsman http://www.scotsman.com/business/personal-finance/more-stories/top_ten_tips_to_building_your_pension_pot_1_2096815 misses two points. First, when you come to retire you should take Independent Financial Advice on all of the...

Today’s Blog

I could not disagree more with the Report written by the Cass Business School and National Association of Pension Funds mentioned in the following article...

Today’s Blog

The following article is interesting about Non-Doms http://www.moneymarketing.co.uk/offshore/non-dom-numbers-down-16/1048188.article the interesting point which is missed is what is the impact upon employment and the impact on expenditure in the economy. I would not...

Reflections on Northern Rock

Mr Sants has pointed out the obvious to the BBC in the following article http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18419434. Of course there were many other ways Northern Rock’s fall could have been averted or mitigated. The most obvious was for the regulator to demand the...

Today’s Blog

This is an interesting article http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17521020 I wonder what the comparison would be if they did include pension entitlements and healthcare benefits? There is a lot of resentment in the private sector about the generous public sector...