Sunday Post – Reality Check for Pensions
Article published in Sunday Post discussing the need for people to understand the costs and risks of pensions and public sector workers to appreciate the value of their pensions.
Observer – Osborne ignores pensioners at his peril
Article published in the Daily Express criticizing the latest EEU ruling banning gender discrimination in insurance products and warning that this will make annuity prices worse for most people in the UK. It seems to be political correctness gone mad.
Financial Adviser – More pensioners stripped of their pensions
Feature in Financial Adviser explaining how the G&H pension scheme members are being abandoned by the PPF and Government still has not sorted out the problem.
Express comment: Pensions: How Baby Boomers Were Betrayed
Ros explains why we need radical state pension overhaul to provide a decent state pension at least £140 a week for all, to revitalise private pensions, end mass means testing and be fair to women at last.
Telegraph blog – Too late for women to make contingencies
Ros blog on Telegraph website explaining the unfairness of Government proposals to raise women’s state pension age and calling for a rethink.
Financial World – Inflation Pressures
Letter published in Financial World ruing the dangers of inflation, how overly easy monetary policy and failure to unwind QE despite rising inflation is storing up huge risks in all asset and goods markets.
Telegraph blog – Time for Government to take plight of pensioners more seriously
Ros’ blog on Daily Telegraph website commenting on IFS figures showing pensioner households losing out as a result of policies to fight the economic crisis. If pensioners suffer, so do the rest of us.
Extending working lives – great news!
Ros wrote a feature for FT Financial Adviser explaining why ending the default retirement age and extending working lives is great news. People want to work longer, but let’s make it part-time.
Guardian blog – welcome the end of Default Retirement Age
Ros wrote a blog for Guardian website welcoming the end of the Default Retirement Age and pointing out that if older workers can work longer, this will also create more jobs for the young as the growing numbers of older people will have more money to spend in their old age.
Sunday Post – Start Planning Now for Reaching your Century
Ros’s feature article published in Sunday Post welcoming news that millions of us will live to be over 100 years old, but saying this needs to be planned for carefully with longer working lives and more saving.