pfblogsround 12th April 2007

Some excellent posts this week by other personal finance bloggers. My favourites have been:

your total measure of wealth: job status @ punny money calculate a number that quantifies your job, this is part of a series of posts seeking to establish a complete picture of your wealth
the complexities of anti-consumerism @ an english major’s money [...]

a house is worth what someone will pay for it

I was watching Selling Houses Abroad last night whilst waiting for the Life on Mars finale (immense series by the way). The main focus of the show was a couple who had bought a 3 bed village house in south west France several years ago. After having their second child they decided that they wanted [...]

pensions allsorts

In the UK, there are several different types of pensions, split into two groups:
occupational pensions

defined benefit = final salary
defined contribution = money purchase

private pensions

personal pensions
stakeholder pensions
self-invested personal pensions

Occupational pensions are run on behalf of the employer, often by an insurance company such as Standard Life. You can generally contribute via salary sacrifice and often the [...]