I know that every minister wants to leave a legacy, but come on. Pensions Minister Guy Opperman (who knew?) ‘wants it to become normal for people to meet in a pub, and have a frank conversation about their pensions with their friends’. Well, a) if you spark up a frank conversation about pensions in the pub, you won’t have many friends. That’s why most financial advisers keep quiet about what they do unless pushed. And b), making pension companies send out yet more paperwork, however supposedly user friendly it may be (and it won’t be, of course), will just fill more recycling bins. I’d say I despair, if there weren’t so many other, more important things, about which to despair.
“Why you should never retire”
On my 50th birthday, I will always remember, amongst the card or two I received was a letter from Saga’ who’d managed to find out my age through the wonder of the internet, and were pleased to tell me I now qualified to join my parents and go on holiday with them.
