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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

PREVIEW: Brokenomics | Pensions

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

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Politics, News, Daily News

4.8977 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Dan often gets asked about Pensions, but isn't a huge fan personally. But luckily guest Charlie does know all about them and explains to Dan.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome Brokonomics. Now lovely viewers that you are and you leave

0:05.9

comments below and all that sort of thing and every sort I read the comments and yeah

0:10.6

some of you are great some of you you hate me, which I find an absurd concept, not liking me, but some of you don't.

0:16.7

And some of you ask questions.

0:19.0

And one of the questions that comes up a lot is about pensions. And I'd love to tell you all about pensions. The

0:25.5

problem is I don't know anything about them because I've never had one. I never put a

0:28.4

single penny in a pension in my life because I don't trust them. But nevertheless I am behooved to respond to the audience and

0:36.8

address your pension questions. So I thought, well who do I know who can talk about that? And that's what I found. Charlie Rogers.

0:45.8

Charlie.

0:46.8

Hello? You are a Brokonomics viewer, so we know you are a sensible chat.

0:50.6

I am. But you've also spent many, many years in the pensions world, I understand. Yeah, that's right. Good. Yeah. Well, in which case you are the man to answer our questions. So, um, what's your sort of journey through the pensions? What have you been doing in that?

1:06.5

Cool. So before I jumped into pensions I wanted to be a roller coaster designer. So I went to Swansea University to do a civil engineering degree.

1:15.8

I mean there was a video game for that. Well yeah and it's a lot more fun funny enough than the

1:20.7

degree I attempted. But yeah coming out of civil engineering I was

1:26.8

looking for work. My old man's a financial advisor so he thought come and do some

1:31.0

maths for me so I ended up being a what's known as a para planner.

1:35.0

Do you need maths for roller coaster design?

1:37.0

To do all the structural calculations and the force. Health and safety nonsense.

1:44.0

Well, it was the health and safety nonsense that turned me off.

1:46.0

I know it's just that environmental science.

1:48.0

No, I don't need to do this.

1:49.0

Right.

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