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Previously on "Pensions.... that's me well tucked up then..."
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Hence the big uptake in BTL.
Pensions are too risky. The companies involved are greedy, reckless, incompetent and sometimes downright criminal.
The only safe pension is for the public sector parasites.
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Originally posted by zeitghost View Post... Windsor Life...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2008....lifeinsurance
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Originally posted by zeitghostThank you sir... Have a nice day now, bless you...
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Originally posted by zeitghostGood advice.
I think I'll start selling the Big Issue.
It's got more of a future.
Atw.
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55K - 7.5K My life insurance fund "only" lost 35%...but these losses seem to be the norm. Interestingly when the FTSE recovered my pension fund didn't.
hmm losses for the pension fund, profits for the boys.
My advice: subscribe to some research, eg S&P and buy your own stocks.Last edited by BlasterBates; 16 June 2008, 07:19.
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Originally posted by NickFitz View PostYou are BI and I claim my five pounds
Five pounds of warmed sherry trifle? All scoffed, I'm afraid.
I could do a half of a huge bag of unshelled peanuts; I assume your opposable thumbs are up to the job of shelling.
Anyway, wasn't he an AtW bot?
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Originally posted by RichardCranium View PostOr as NF might put it, think of a Plan A that your current job is holding you back from.
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Originally posted by zeitghostBut I was a contractor once... until October 2002... ho hum... I only discovered this site during my loooooong spell on the bench from then to 2004 when I started fixing fruit machines...
I take it that you realise that I'm not a lecturer , but a technician?
No, I did not realise. I thought all your laissez-faire comments about one or fewer students turning up were from a super-cynical lecturer's viewpoint.
Originally posted by zeitghostSo that I get to listen to all the lectures through one ear whilst posting nonsense here to while away the hours... and don't have to spend hours in the evening preparing for the next day's collection of misfits to generally ignore & sleep through ....
Follow the advice that's been dished out here time and time again: use the time you have available to think of a Plan B and then start working out how to make it happen.
Or as NF might put it, think of a Plan A that your current job is holding you back from.
Check out Venture Wales & ITWales. They were a huge help to me.
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Originally posted by zeitghost View PostNational Mutual -> G.E. Pensions -> Swiss Re "Tomorrow" -> Windsor Life...
Last statement from G.E. dated Jan 2007... £55k.
Latest & first statement since then from Windsor Life £7.5k.
Where the flip has my £48k gone then?
Silly Question.
It's bought some **** a Porsche.
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check they havent gone out and bought you an annuity, without you even asking
this was in todays daily mail, similar sums involved
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Originally posted by zeitghost View PostNational Mutual -> G.E. Pensions -> Swiss Re "Tomorrow" -> Windsor Life...
Last statement from G.E. dated Jan 2007... £55k.
Latest & first statement since then from Windsor Life £7.5k.
Where the flip has my £48k gone then?
Silly Question.
It's bought some **** a Porsche.
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Originally posted by zeitghost View PostNational Mutual -> G.E. Pensions -> Swiss Re "Tomorrow" -> Windsor Life...
Last statement from G.E. dated Jan 2007... £55k.
Latest & first statement since then from Windsor Life £7.5k.
Where the flip has my £48k gone then?
Silly Question.
It's bought some **** a Porsche.
Pension "management" fees are normally around 1%, so would cost you £750 in that time.
Originally posted by zeitghost View PostDunno, xogg... it's confirmed my original prejudices against all pensions as legalised theft.
I shall contribute no more... and I'm getting out of this tedious job for something more remunerative asap.
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Originally posted by zeitghostI shall contribute no more... and I'm getting out of this tedious job for something more remunerative asap.
Surely you can't become a real one of us too?
It's listening to your stories of providing lectures to empty rooms, watching you posting relentlessly to ContractorUK during lecture time and generally plodding through each day that provides stability to our lives.
We all know that should, for some reason, we lose the will to continue with the ongoing fear of contract termination and skills redundancy, that we could always go into higher education and wile away the hours lusting after collleagues.
If you go contract, what hope is there for us? (And it'll bugger up your post count!)
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Thank Goodness Ive never paid into any pension fund whatsoever !
I will adminster the lethal injection when Ive had enough - I'll even pay for the shot.
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