Cancer IFA Case Study (#02)

September 11, 2013

Tweet I get a Referral Guy has been diagnosed with abdominal cancer and given 12 months to live. Married with three children, one just a few months old. Chemotherapy due to start soon. Good job with huge Death-in-Service benefit which will pay off the mortgage, but little in way of savings. Five bits of pension including […]

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Helping your Parents if they get Cancer

September 9, 2013

Tweet The Flip Side of Better Health Average life expectancy at birth for men in the UK is now 77 and 81 for women and to show you how confusing statistics can be, the most common age for men at death is 85 and 89 for women (note the same 4 year gender difference). In the […]

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A Successful Failure

August 29, 2013

Tweet What did you do in the War, Daddy? We go to school, we grow up – among stories of our forebears which for baby boomers like me, may include stories from two World Wars. Stories which are often about mistakes as well as the tragic. Most memorable from the English side of my family is from […]

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The Best Thing since Sliced Bread?

August 18, 2013

Tweet It’s Time to Frack In case anyone hasn’t noticed, we are in a depression, the worst for maybe 100 years according to the Bank of England. UK energy price inflation is much higher than mainland Europe. We have an ageing population and a low birth rate meaning that more and more oldies have to […]

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Full Circle

August 12, 2013

Tweet I’ve been here before The proudest day of a Dad’s life – his daughter’s wedding day. We are gathered in Llangollen, North Wales and my youngest daughter’s wedding is tomorrow, but something haunts me. First and only time in North Wales is a Geography “A” level field trip when lectures mention the possibility of […]

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I’ve got Cancer? So how long have I got, Doc?

July 24, 2013

Tweet Well, it depends… Like many of life’s big questions, the answer depends on the cancer and you. Overall the news is good. 40 years ago the average answer would have been one year, soon it is predicted to be 6 years. The creation of NHS in the UK in 1948 helped a baby boomer […]

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I’d rather call you Chef! (Soup Kitchen Diaries #09)

July 19, 2013

Tweet We’re having a Summer Break? Thursday evening and it’s time for me to open up again. Lights, dishwasher, urn for hot water all switched on and three kettles of boiling water in the tea urn so the tea will served hot. Two football-sized bags of minced beef have almost defrosted in two containers in the sink, […]

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The Job isn’t what I Expected

July 12, 2013

Tweet Pension Providers & Advisers wrong most of the time? It’s Friday and I am on The Pensions Advisory Service TPAS stand at the 50+ Show at Olympia. This is a public show rather than a trade one like EBLive or Pensions & Benefits Show I have previously written about, so the atmosphere is different. With 4 […]

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The Right Man for the Job

July 10, 2013

Tweet Finding the Right Lawyer Monday night and the phone rings. It’s a lady I spoke to last year regarding travel insurance. She has cancer and was finding travel insurance difficult, expensive and with too many exclusions. This was solved via my friends at IFALife the financial advisers’ network. Now she is back and integrative-treatment […]

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So Why are some things Overlooked?

July 5, 2013

Tweet The Devil’s in the (Missing) Detail The day after USA’s Fourth of July celebrations, my concern over what to write for my next blog, is solved by Fraser Nelson writing for the Daily Telegraph. But first a little detail. The American Independence Day holiday celebrates the Declaration of Independence. The actual Vote for Independence […]

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