|Investments| Are banks taking too much risk with your investments?
In a report this week by the FSA (Financial Services Authority) on risk, titled Retail Conduct Risk Outlook, the FSA made statements regarding the risks that banks may be taking with your , risks that may be inappropriate.
Investments| The Mechanism for the Euro Bailout | Savings
||The grand leaders of the Euro bloc are meeting today to put together the Grand Bailout to ease all Bailouts with a further gathering -if they turn up, and assuming that the Gravy Train, ‘The Ponzi Express’, does not get derailed in the meantime, of the [...]
Pensions| Resolution: In Search of the Wholly Trail! |Investments
||20 or so years ago there were about 100 different life companies in the UK – these consisted of pensions companies and investment companies, life companies etc., who were all fishing for business in the UK market place. In those days the pickings were good, high [...]
Investments|The banks & a matter of trust! |Pensions
||Oh dear, Oh dear, Oh dear – the banks have been caught ‘at it’ again. A recent under-cover investigation by the organisation Which! has found serious examples of poor bank financial advice (32 out of 37 advisers made misleading statements about investment products) where bank advisers were [...]
Pensions & Investments| Making your last £10 coincide with your last breath!
|Many people build up odd pension pots during their lifetime and often bits and pieces of investments also, along the way, viz., PEPS, Tessa’s ISA’s the odd Bond here and there and one or two pension pots. Also they may have been members [...]
Pensions | Annuities – are not the only fruit in the basket! | Investments
Annuities – are not the only fruit in the basket! How many consumers think that when they get to retirement their pension ‘pot’ has to be turned into an Annuity? Well, according to the Association of British Insurers research published in the report ‘Annuities: the consumer experience’- found that two-thirds of people buying an annuity buy them [...]
Pensions | Annuities – are not the only fruit in the basket! | Investments
Annuities – are not the only fruit in the basket! How many consumers think that when they get to retirement their pension ‘pot’ has to be turned into an Annuity? Well, according to the Association of British Insurers research published in the report ‘Annuities: the consumer experience’- found that two-thirds of people buying an annuity buy them [...]
Pensions | Euro ‘Ghosties’ and Greek ‘Ghoulies’ | Investments
Pensions| Euro Ghosties and Greek Ghoulies|Investments I was talking to a client the other day about the ‘happenings’ in the Eurozone, and in particular the situation with the passengers (Ministers) on the Euro Gravy Train ‘The Ponzi Express’ and in my last post I contemplated that there was a danger that the only light at [...]
Pensions | Euro ‘Ghosties’ and Greek ‘Ghoulies’ | Investments
Pensions| Euro Ghosties and Greek Ghoulies|Investments I was talking to a client the other day about the ‘happenings’ in the Eurozone, and in particular the situation with the passengers (Ministers) on the Euro Gravy Train ‘The Ponzi Express’ and in my last post I contemplated that there was a danger that the only light at [...]
Pensions| Greece the Musical – oh Mama Mia!|Investments
At a stroke yesterday the Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou stunned the markets, to say nothing of Ms Merkel and Ms Sarkozy, by calling for a Referendum on the crisis in Greece. This one statement had the effect of driving down markets by over 2.2% (FTSE100) which is more than the total GDP of Greece [...]
