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Sacred cows at the abattoir
Sometimes someone challenges a “received” idea in a way that quite unsettles your equilibrium. That’s what happened when Debora Price spoke with a group of us at the Pensions Network meeting yesterday....
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Meaningless choice
“Choice good… no choice bad” – unless you’re a utility company offering a plethora of tariffs in which case – “too much choice… bad”. Choice – good for mums wanting childbirth options….bad for the new...
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Is Pension Wise doomed from the start?
This question was posed on the Pension Play Pen Linked in Group by Jonathan Lawlor, a distinguished actuary and someone who thinks about these matters with an independent mind. He had been reading a...
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For 2016 – A desideratum (from my friend)
I don’t know why my friend wishes to remain anonymous. Maybe because he is too close to the action- perhaps because he knows too much. I know him to be independent of financial services providers and...
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“Only rich people think small amounts don’t matter”
That’s a quote from Debora Price and I’m making it a strap for whatever campaign I can cobble together to make Government Incentives happen for those who qualify for them , but can’t get them because...
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With dementia in mind.
Why don’t we design financial services for the elderly with dementia in mind? The needs and capabilities of those in their eighties and nineties can be quite different from those in their sixties and...
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Planning for a noble and quick death?
The wealth management perspective The FT has been doing some research about what motivates people to swap a pension for drawdown. The sample may not have been big but they’re drawing a strange...
View ArticleIs the UK institutionally ageist?
This week we hear that numbers in England and Wales dying in care homes is exceeding those in hospital. In March Government told these homes the risk of death in homes was “most unlikely”. How did it...
View ArticleWhat should you do about pensions when divorcing?
University of Manchester, Cognitive Media, ESRC Today is pensions awareness day. One area of pensions I have never covered is divorce. So it was great when my friend Debora Price dropped me a line with...
View ArticlePaying pension credit automatically….
Spare 25mins and listen to this week’s Money Box on @BBCSounds – Council Tax £150 energy rebate and @henryhtapper talking about 1m older people missing out on Pension Credit and up to £3,000 a year...
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