Uber teams up with peer-to-peer lender Zopa to help drivers buy their own cars May 6, 2015 Uber is aiming to make it easier for its drivers to buy their own cars by teaming up with peer-to-peer (P2P) lender Zopa. The taxi-hailing app's partnership with the world's first P2P marketplace will give drivers renting a licensed vehicle access to a loan agreement with one of Zopa's institutional lenders, allowing them to swap [...]
One in three 2015 retirees have no idea about pension changes March 16, 2015 Almost one third of people due to retire this year have not heard of the pension changes which are due to come into force on 6 April, research from retirement specialist Prudential reveals this morning. According to the company, the retirees who are aware that a broader range of retirement income options will be available [...]
Pensioners warned not to splash all their cash on a Lamborghini as Treasury unveils pension rules July 21, 2014 Pensioners tempted to splash all of their cash in one go on a new Lamborghini are being warned they would face a tax bill of £63,000, ahead of today’s confirmation from the government that it will push ahead with the biggest shake-up of the pensions industry in a century. Research by financial services provider NFU [...]
Aston Martin’s Vulcan supercar is insane: An 800 horsepower V12 engine and a £1.5m price tag for this track-only car February 26, 2015 Aston Martin’s new multi-million-pound supercar would definitely leave James Bond stirred. Move over McLaren, Ferrari and Lamborghini – here’s the Vulcan. Sports car fans eager to get their hands on one of these bad boys will need to be quick – only 24 are being made. They will also need to dig deep into their [...]
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Bernie Ecclestone’s son-in-law James Stunt spotted on Clapham Northside January 4, 2015 Spotted: Bernie Ecclestone’s son-in-law James Stunt and his ostentatious vehicle entourage was spied cruising along the less-than-conspicuous Clapham Northside yesterday. The billionaire art dealer, married to Bernie’s daughter Petra, is known for travelling around London in a five-strong cavalcade of plush cars: two Range Rovers, two Rolls-Royces and a Lamborghini. All black. How very Batman, [...]
Car review: The Lexus RC F is a slow burner, but its bark is better than its bite December 15, 2014 The gated communities of Marbella are used to hearing the growl of attention-seeking supercars. But for all the Ferraris and Lamborghinis with their oversized exhausts, it was the bark of Lexus’s new V8-engined RC F sports coup that had people jumping out of their skin when I visited. Pedestrians, too, found it hard to ignore [...]
Spyder sense: Even Sir Patrick Stewart is bowled over by the new McLaren 650S February 5, 2015 Everyone has their “happy place”. Most people think of a tropical island, a postcard pinned to their office wall. I don’t. Not any more. Now I have a different reference point for unbridled joy: pulling down the driver’s door of a McLaren 650S, firing its twin-turbo and racing through all seven gears in a breathless, [...]
Ros Altmann: The savers’ champion talks pension reform, QE, and the pension annuities bombshell March 26, 2015 "I was gobsmacked.” Ros Altmann summarises her reaction to the Budget last year, when the chancellor first outlined his dramatic plans to bring pension freedoms to all. On the afternoon of that Budget day, Altmann, a pensions expert and campaigner, adviser to successive governments, and investment manager and economist, could barely contain her excitement when [...]
Rodney Cook interview: Just Retirement rides out annuity storm September 18, 2014 In February this year, crisis management experts visited Just Retirement’s Surrey head office to give senior executives a crash course in coping with the unexpected. Managers didn’t have to wait long to put that advice to use. When George Osborne announced sweeping changes to pension arrangements within the March Budget, allowing retirees to withdraw their [...]