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...As a young man I’d look in the windows of Mappin & Webb and wonder how anyone could ever afford what’s there.”...
...Steve Webb, a partner with actuarial consultancy LCP and a former pensions minister, agreed reform was needed....
...This is right at the edge of what our most powerful telescopes, such as the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), can achieve....
...Additional reporting by Peggy Hollinger and Joe Miller Cartography and data visualisation by Liz Faunce and Alan Smith...
...As Alan Brierley of Investec points out, our equities are “approaching pariah status”....
...Merryn Somerset Webb is editor-in-chief of MoneyWeek. Views are personal. merryn@ft.com. Twitter: @MerrynSW...
...Perhaps, as former US Federal Reserve chair Alan Greenspan put it this month: “Zero has no meaning.”...
...Sir Steve Webb, former pensions minister and director of policy at Royal London, a pension provider, said: “While it is understandable that the government wants to promote infrastructure investment, this...
...Merryn Somerset Webb is editor-in-chief of MoneyWeek. The views expressed are personal. merryn@ft.com....
...Even Alan Budd is perturbed by its ubiquity, worrying that this is a loophole through which the industry lures in the young....
...Backed by City financier Edi Truell and Warburg Pincus, the institutional investor, it will be run by Alan Rubenstein, the former head of the Pension Protection Fund, the industry-funded scheme that pays...
...Star performer A 1971 Vacheron Constantin watch that was presented to astronaut Alan Shepard by a group of Geneva citizens fetched $81,311 in a sale of space memorabilia staged by online auction house RR...
...Alan Smith, an actuary with First Actuarial, told the Great Pension Debate industry conference in Peterborough this week that he “could not imagine transfer values getting much higher”....
..., correspondent, Gavin Esler, presenter, James Naughtie, correspondent and presenter, John Pienaar, correspondent, Sophie Raworth, presenter, John Simpson, correspondent, Kirsty Wark, presenter, Justin Webb...
...And something tells me trailblazing social entrepreneurs such as Alan are here to stay....
...“They’re trading at a hefty premium,” said Tim Webb, head of retail capital markets trading at Numis. But he warned the price does fluctuate throughout the year....
...Merryn Somerset Webb is editor-in-chief of MoneyWeek. The views expressed are personal. merryn@ft.com Twitter: @MerrynSW...
...“Replacing tax relief with a Pensions Isa could be George Osborne’s ‘Gordon Brown’ moment,” said Mr Webb....
...“The basic problem is that many people were led to believe that they would get the full new state pension,” said Alan Higham, of PensionsChamp.com, a consumer website....
...Pro-union sentiment has already helped pull in hefty donations from Alan Savage, a leading backer of last year’s anti-independence campaign....
...Merryn Somerset Webb is editor-in-chief of MoneyWeek. The views expressed are personal. merryn@ft.com. Twitter: @MerrynSW...
...“This was a level talked about as a potential break-even point and we expect a profit [from this activity] in 2015, if not 2014,” said Alan Devlin, analyst at Barclays....
...Martin Lee, a barrister and founder of Hong Kong’s Democratic party, said the revelations were “unbelievable”, while Alan Leong, head of the opposition Civic party, said the chief executive should explain...
...Opportunities for investing the cash range from managed investment funds to a new conservatory, holidays and, in the memorable example of pensions minister Steve Webb, Lamborghini sports cars....
...“Customers we speak to are totally confused by their choices, which leads to paralysis of action that benefits few,” says Alan Higham, head of retirement insight at Fidelity Worldwide Investment....
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