|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 investments, risks that may be inappropriate. They say “Banks may sell complex or illiquid products that encourage existing private banking clients to take [...]
Investments| The Mechanism for the Euro Bailout | Savings
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 [...]
Investments| The Mechanism for the Euro Bailout | Savings
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 [...]
Investments| The Mechanism for the Euro Bailout | Savings
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
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 [...]
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| France, the Euro, and a Printing Press – the answer to a Mademoiselles’ prayer |Investments
France, the Euro, and a Printing Press – the answer to a Mademoiselles’ Prayer. Last week I spent a week in France. The purpose of my visit was to oversee some building work being carried out on a property (Farmhouse) that we bought in 1997 as a wreck. We are in the process of adding [...]
Pensions| the ‘excessive’ hidden fees on pensions – with balance!
Well, here we go AGAIN! Front page headlines in The Daily Telegraph ‘Prudent savers hit by ‘excessive’ hidden fees on pensions’ – If it bleeds, it leads! is the mantra as far as newspapers are concerned, but once again I raise the question ‘where is the balance in the article?’ The Beef Just to pick [...]
Pensions| ‘….caught in a land-slide, no escape from reality….’
Pensions| ’….caught in a land-slide, no escape from reality….’ Fans of Queen will instantly recognise the words above ‘…caught in a land-slide…’ etc., as being one of the key phrases from Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen, that haunting, brilliant song written (it’s thought) by Freddie Mercury – in many ways that particular song should never have [...]
Game Changer Threatens Cautious Managed funds – FTimes – Oh! Really?
Game Changer Threatens Cautious Managed funds – FTimes – Oh! Really? That is a headline in Friday’s (7th October 2011) Financial Times newspaper. It is a particular dislike of mine when newspapers, and in particular journalists who publish articles in fairly respectable journals, spout what can only kindly be described as misleading and likely to influence [...]
