Contrarian: Pay-to-play battle will come to UK

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This week I would like to talk about nothing... well actually zero to be precise. Truth be told, I would actually quite like to talk about not one but two, very important, big fat zeros!

The first encounter with the big fat zero number came during varied discussions about the thorny and rather boring subject of pensions, all conducted with a series of under thirty somethings, ie younger people. These poor unfortunate creatures had to put up with a lorry load of questions from yours truly about their personal finances, all because we will soon be launching a new investment web tv channel in March and one of our programmes is about ‘yoof’ finance. Anyway the long and short of these various conversations was not one of my ‘yoofs’ said they wanted to start a pension. Zero...

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