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On train heading north. Four people in carriage loudly conducting banal conversations on mobiles #shutup

Oh dear. @TheFCA to "investigate handling of press coverage" on insurer study. Shooting messenger?!

Resolution directors bought shares after Budget day falls. Clobbered again today. Osborne off their Xmas card list, methinks

#Budget2014: will pensioners "trade in their bus pass for a V8 turbobastard"? @robertshrimsley thinks not: http://on.ft.com/1o7VUEs 

40% of estates >£1m do not pay any IHT (HMRC stats). Fuss about this tax is completely daft...

"Take money out your pension and put it into property". No, don't. Here's why not: http://on.ft.com/1iGT5Vu  via @emdunks

#bbcqt #Help2Buy equity loans have funded 16000 transactions since last April. Out of almost 900000. 1.8%

#bbcqt we're onto #houseprices - a subject on which I've yet to hear any politician talk sense...

I never knew that...adultery is apparently not grounds for divorce in gay marriage. Talk about having your cake and eating it!

Pensions charge cap reax: concerns about impact on small schemes and Nest's "front loaded" charges - make comparison tricky

Podcast: @PensionsMonkey and @_james_lloyd debate #budget2014 pension reforms. Move over Clegg/Farage! http://ft.com/moneyshow 

Pension charge cap story here, updates to follow: http://on.ft.com/1h04iMt  Via @josephinecumbo and @PickardJE

ABI and IMA point out that OFT study came out against #pensions charge cap. But momentum now looks unstoppable. Story up soon

As HoC debates pension charges, Fitz Partners calculates that average fund's trading costs add 0.27% to investor fees #pensions

Transaction costs could be included in cap in future, says @stevewebb1 That would be v good as such costs can be material

If you took Buffett's advice and put #pensions mostly into index funds, you'd be paying 0.1% plus wrapper cost, not 0.75%

In 22 locales there hasn't been a single completion under #HelpToBuy phase 1 since launch. Nine of them London boroughs

6.3% of HL's flexible drawdown clients take cash in one go, says @PensionsMonkey But they're not ones you need to worry about!

Avg price of home sold under right to buy is £20k (via @joncstone). A fire sale. Food for thought amid pension debate

ABI members "given no advance notice" of #Budget2014 and lack of post-event clarity "wholly unacceptable" Backlash gathers pace...