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Weekend reading: Are we marching towards a State pension age of 70?

Good reads from around the Web.

Morning! We’re all too late I’m running late for today’s futile march of the damned [1], so I’ll just put this one out there.

According to the BBC [2]:

An analysis for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has suggested that workers under the age of 30 may not get a pension until the age of 70.

There are two new reports that have set the bell officially tolling:

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news to anyone under 45 or so – and especially to the under-30s.

At least we’re expected to live longer! Get your own money compounding [5] over the extra years, and try not to be reliant on the State.

Just in case.

From the blogs

Making good use of the things that we find…

Passive investing

Active investing

Other articles

Product of the week: I’ve just signed up with Thriva [23], and have my first blood test sitting on the desk in front of me, waiting for me to get all vampiric on myself. The packaging is super elegant, like unboxing an Apple product, which does take the edge off. I’m more motivated though by the online dashboard it will create – and the fact I won’t need to badger my GP (again) after he told me a couple of years ago that a certain variable was out of whack then said “we’ll see if we need to worry in five years.” I do my worrying early! According to Thriva, if you follow my link [23] you’ll get £10 off your first test (and I’ll get £10 to put towards my next one). But I can’t see any confirmation on the sign-up page, so keep your eyes open at checkout if that’s important to you. (Sorry to be a prick tease. Geddit? Prick? Never mind…)

Mainstream media money

Some links are Google search results – in PC/desktop view these enable you to click through to read the piece without being a paid subscriber of that site.1 [24]

Passive investing

Active investing

A word from a broker

Other stuff worth reading

Groceries of the week: I’m stuck for book ideas this week, but I have noticed Amazon Pantry is running a special offer [52] whereby if you buy four eligible items you get free delivery. Sadly I’m not really set-up to have a constant stream of Amazon delivery trucks passing my house every few hours to unload cans of beans and bottles of detergent at their whim. But maybe if you’ve got a butler or an au pair or a house miles away from opportunistic eyes so that your groceries can just be tossed over the hedge it could work for you?

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  1. Note some articles can only be accessed through the search results if you’re using PC/desktop view (from mobile/tablet view they bring up the firewall/subscription page). To circumvent, switch your mobile browser to use the desktop view. On Chrome for Android: press the menu button followed by “Request Desktop Site”. [ [57]]