Future Financial Planning (aka Saving & Pensions)

Interested in helping raise awareness about the challenges of future financial planning ie retirement, savings, insurance and pensions.

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“To abstain from enjoyment which is in our power, or to seek distant rather than immediate results, are among the most painful exertions of the human will” ― N.W. Senior

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There's an old Wayne Gretzky quote that I love: "I skate the puck is going to be, not where it has been" - where will the pensions puck be in 2025? 2050?

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How prepared is GenY for their future retirement provision?

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Home for aged & pensioned seamen

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Sacrificing the desert to save the Earth: BrightSource Energy’s Ivanpah solar power project will soon be a humming city with 24-hour lighting, a wastewater processing facility and a gas-fired power plant.

To make room, BrightSource has mowed down a swath of desert plants, displaced dozens of animal species and relocated scores of imperiled desert tortoises, a move that some experts say could kill up to a third of them.

Environmentalists are torn over the high cost of breaking reliance on fossil fuels. Public comment has been sought, but insiders are calling the shots.

Read our article here, and be sure to check out the accompanying graphic.

Images: Top, Artist’s conception of Ivanpah ‘solar farm’ project. Bottom, the impact of a solar farm on desert ecosystems.

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Loved this quote in the Spectator - "People from good areas steal your #Pension"

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The (US) budget explained in simple English! Frightening when you understand the relative quantum