Pension Panic: Why the Capita Civil Service Pension Problems Are Blowing Up Globally In a world where memes about retirement age are already a thing, the Capita Civil Service Pension problems have suddenly become the hottest topic in global finance and labor discussions. If you’ve been living under a rock (or just avoiding financial news…
The Global Pension Time Bomb: How Governments Are Playing Musical Chairs With Your Retirement By the time you finish reading this sentence, approximately 47 people worldwide will have turned 65. By the time you reach the end of this paragraph, that number will have surpassed the population of Iceland. The global silver tsunami isn’t coming—it’s…
The United Kingdom’s state pension—an institution so venerable it predates sliced bread, penicillin, and the concept of human dignity at airport security—has become the latest exhibit in humanity’s ongoing museum of “How Did We Not See This Coming?” From a safe distance (say, a beach bar in Bali or a Tokyo co-working pod), the saga…
London – In the grand theatre of global capitalism, where every index wobble is marketed as a Shakespearean tragedy, BT Group plc’s share price is currently auditioning for the role of “tragicomic lead.” For the uninitiated, BT is the United Kingdom’s answer to the question “What if Ma Bell never died but instead put on…
The Global Pension: A Promise Written in Disappearing Ink By our Senior Correspondent, still waiting for his first payout in a bar on the Mekong In theory, a pension is the civilized world’s IOU for a lifetime of showing up on time and pretending to enjoy team-building exercises. In practice, it is humanity’s most ambitious…
