What is the right age to retire? Early enough to enjoy a few years’ of profligate grey pound spending (you can’t take it with you after all) but late enough to carry on working as long as you feel interested in and capable of doing your job? Retirement dreams tend to depend implicitly upon a [...]

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In the late 1980s there was a savings plan scheme that paid out 110 per cent of the first year’s premium to the introducing broker. So while the client was squirreling away savings during that initial year the reality was that not a penny of it went towards securing any financial future but had been [...]

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The media always like to have a business bogeyman. At any one time there’s at least one sector of British business that’s demonised and painted as unscrupulous and slippery. At the moment it’s payday lenders (or loan sharks as the tabloids would have it). Before that it was bankers, and before that: who remembers the [...]

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It’s been a great month for Admiral with two new business wins for the growing PR consultancy. We are pleased to welcome both True Potential and Smiles Engineering into our client portfolio. True Potential is one of the fastest growing and most innovative financial services organisations in the UK. Admiral will lead media relations campaigns [...]

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Our director Oliver Chesher has been busy recently conducting a bit of PR for the agency. He’s been interviewed twice in the past two weeks, first by industry hub FeaturesExec, and then by financial services trade magazine MyIntroducer. In the first interview he talks about life behind the scenes in a PR agency, including its [...]

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Wenlock and Mandeville, the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic mascots, today visited children in Newcastle at the Percy Hedley Foundation and the offices of business advisory firm, Deloitte. The visits which were arranged by staff at Deloitte, the official professional services provider to London 2012, saw Wenlock and Mandeville take part in a wheelchair skills [...]

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