Après-midi with the Bermondsey Bee – some thoughts on advice
Girl in a Bermondsey bar – roller-pen on napkin- Steve Bee I spent some leisure time yesterday afternoon with Steve Bee in and around the Bermondsey St Debtor’s Prison in which Jargon Free has its...
View ArticleIs auto-enrolment any more than a tax?
Speaking in Birmingham last week, former pension minister Steve Webb, commented on how hard it will be to raise the bar on employer auto-enrolment contributions from the current 1% of band earnings to...
View ArticleThe WASPI’s argument needs balance – guest blog by Frances Coppola.
WASPI – “women against pension inequality” is the most fashionable campaign in pensions. But the most prominent woman in pensions, Ros Altmann, does not support it. The assumption has been that she...
View ArticleA right to debate or a right to restitution? #WASPI
For many of us, men retire at 65 and women at 60, that was hard coded into our learning like the multiplication tables and it’s clearly quite hard to unlearn. Steve Bee makes a good point on twitter...
View ArticleIt’s a lot harder than that – Mr Bee!
Pensions are hard – you cannot disrupt them into being easy I’ve been accused of not taking pensions seriously, Hugh Pym, then the BBC’s chief economics correspondent, smiled indulgently and reminded...
View ArticleA pension tax- relief debate (beats Love Island any Sunday)
While the nation was working out Dancing on Ice and the new #loveisland line-up, I was engaged in an intellectual arm-wrestle with amongst others, Mike Otsuka, John Ralfe, Sam Pickford, Steve Bee and...
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