The Pensions Crisis

The Pensions Crisis

A lot has been written about the ongoing pensions crisis, but it is no bad thing to look at the basic problems anew. There are dual factors which challenge the viability of a comfortable retirement for millions of pensioners who fall between ‘a rock and a hard place’....
Mortgage Madness

Mortgage Madness

Controversial new EU mortgage rules that will bombard borrowers with even more ‘useless and confusing’ information is on its way from Brussels. The ‘Mortgage Credit Directive’ will make lenders display worst case scenarios to borrowers taking on a loan. This involves...
A Muscular Church

A Muscular Church

After a government reaction to Pay Day Lending which mirrored Macbeth’s comment on Life, ‘..full of sound and fury, signifying nothing..’ and the FCA’s extraordinary backing off from the issue ‘because it is the only way that some people can get money’, the Church has...