Executive pay: Nationwide Building Society makes a retrograde move
Let’s not beat around the mulberry bush. Nationwide Building Society is a force for good in the murky world of…
Political tinkering has turned pensions into a quagmire
It is not usually feasible to put the great and good of the financial services industry together in a room…
How do you solve a problem like the pensions system? Spectator Money has a solution
What should be done to our muddled and over-complicated pensions system? We (our politicians, that is) have created a pensions…
Mutuality pays – for building society bosses
I have always had a soft spot for building societies. Maybe it’s because I worked for one in the 1980s…
The self-employed power Britain. Tax them more at your peril, Philip Hammond
Claudio Ranieri will go down in footballing folklore as the individual who accomplished mission impossible by winning modest Leicester City the…
We no longer have a pensions system, just a mess caused by the Treasury
Back in the 1980s, when I was embarking on a lifetime of sweat, toil and tears in order to bring home…
It’s time for Tesco Bank and its rivals to up their IT game
Cast your mind back to Saturday, 5 November. It is 8.30 am in Edinburgh and Tesco Bank boss Benny Higgins…
Are you driven mad by nuisance calls? There are steps you can take to stem the tide
Nuisance calls are the bane of my life – as are unprompted texts. They assault my mobile at all hours,…
Poor customer service is rife – it’s time to put consumers first
Poor customer service is endemic across swathes of British industry. It plagues some of our biggest companies and as customers we…
Savers paying the price as the country meanders towards Brexit
Oh to be a saver in a country currently run by Bank of England boss Mark Carney. Oh dear, indeed.…
Bank branch closures are destroying our communities
We are fast approaching a time when massive tracts of this fine country of ours (greenfield, brownfield, urban, rural) will…
Looking for certainty in an uncertain world? Try a 10-year fixed-rate mortgage
Although a few uncertainties have been removed from the political landscape in recent days – hail Empress Regnant Theresa May…
When will George Osborne stop tinkering with pensions?
Sooner rather than later, George Osborne is going to have to come clean and tell us what he really wants to…
It’s not an Equitable Life, Henry
When Equitable Life is no more – and it won’t be long before the death bell tolls – there will…
Poisonous pensions: why we will work until we drop
No-one in their right mind would have willingly created the monster that is now the country’s current pension system. It…
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