Blog
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08 Feb 2012
Liquidity Crisis at the Bank of Mum and Dad
The latest Visions of Britain report suggests that retirees over the next decade may not be able to provide financial support to their children in the way that has become increasingly prevalent. People of my parents’ generation (those due to retire in the next decade) are facing a shortfall in their income post-retirement.
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26 Jan 2012
The Wearies Strike Back
When I left school at fifteen with no qualifications I never imagined that I would be studying in my late fifties in order to stay in work and keep a roof over my head in retirement.
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25 Jan 2012
Keep Calm and Contribute
As a 24 year old who has been contributing to various styles of pension scheme since I commenced full time employment, I can say with confidence that effecting pension provision today is simple and easy to understand. I fear that might be the first time it's been mentioned so casually, but it's true.
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24 Jan 2012
Working into my nineties
My retirement dreams have been blurry, with vague thoughts of wife, dog and me climbing into a VW camper van and going touring. Now in my mid-50s, those dreams have disappeared and grim reality has set in. A disastrous business venture 15 years ago wiped my savings and left a six-figure debt; the clearing of which left me with no private pension.
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20 Jan 2012
Bonfire of the sanities
We've tiptoed into 2012 with an unsettling calm, all the more strange after a year where normality was a drip chamber of shock and scandal. It's unlikely to last. The glitz of a summer Olympics and a diamond jubilee are unlikely to disguise the real sense that cultural tectonic plates are continuing to shift.
