Bt Share Discussion Threads

[jenny tulwought] 05/6/2017 11:29

Perhaps, like me, he harbours a morbid fascination for loonies...
Or perhaps he's a 'mental-health' under-grad - and you're a 'case study'?

[montyhedge] 05/6/2017 11:03

eaax06
Lol, you love reading my thoughts, otherwise you would just filter me.

[maurillac] 05/6/2017 10:55

well said eaasx06 - nail right on the head ... monty is a bag of wind, the sort of bloke you avoid in the pub !
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[montyhedge] 05/6/2017 10:32

Must admit, I think below 300p on the cards, my target 285p. But what do I know.

[montyhedge] 05/6/2017 08:07

DikuNot even that price of a good lunch, lol.

[diku] 05/6/2017 07:56

Put the journo for a w/end treat on a health farm all expenses paid!...just ask monty!...he knows the trick...

[pacemaker1000] 03/6/2017 22:31

Pension pot gets £7bn boost!


So why does the article sound so negative??

[pacemaker1000] 03/6/2017 16:44

Dr...you are right and BT did indeed take such a pension holiday. They also used the pension pot in a roundabout way to increase profits which is the main reason for the deficit today. I would love to know how much in cash these two blunders cost and whether the company has payed it back. Can't see how though as thousands of retirees with enhanced pensions for up to ten years more than they should and still going is an ongoing problem for the fund.

[pacemaker1000] 03/6/2017 16:33

Thanks grimmy

[pacemaker1000] 03/6/2017 12:41

Toon... simply making up things about people doesn't make them true. You do realise that don't you
I'd love to here your explanation as to how you arrived at such a ridiculous opinion about me from my thread that seems to have riled you so badly.
Where's the correlation between pensions and Manchester for instance?

[dr biotech] 03/6/2017 12:09

What is often forgotten is that some companies pension liabilities (BT being a great example) are huge because they took pension holidays - due to legislation of the Thatcher govt. Brown didn't help of course but we are paying because of the greed of the 80s.

FWIW I cant see anything offensive in Pacemakers original post. We are living longer due to advances in healthcare rather than better genes, if you want a simple explanation.

[dipso] 03/6/2017 09:22

From local newspaper:-
Around 25,000 homes and businesses across Greater Manchester are now receiving the "ultrafast" service known as G.fast, which Openreach claims provides download speeds of up to 330mbps.
Greater Manchester was announced as a pilot location for G.fast in October as part of Openreach’s ambition to make ultrafast broadband available to 12million UK homes by the end of 2020.
Jim Jackson, Openreach’s director for regional infrastructure delivery in the North, said: "A huge amount of effort and substantial investment has already taken place in the development of this exciting new technology.
"So I’m delighted to announce that we can now start connecting people in Greater Manchester and at the 16 other locations around the country.
"These pilot schemes are hugely important to us and to the local households and businesses, which will be able to benefit from G.fast.
"We know the technology works and can be a major benefit for customers, but these pilots will now help us test and improve all the factors involved in rolling out G.fast on a national scale."

[toon1966] 03/6/2017 08:15

Pacemaker1000 - as stated earlier you are a thoroughly reprehensible individual....

[pacemaker1000] 02/6/2017 21:23

Careful lignum.....with talk like that about pensions toon may accuse you of shoplifting or murder. The ties are obvious....lol

[lignum] 02/6/2017 19:24

hxxps://www.pwc.co.uk/press-room/press-releases/310bn-could-be-wiped-off-uk-pension-deficit-by-life-expectancy-changes-according-to-pwcs-skyval-index.html

New figures released today from PwC’s Skyval Index show the deficit of defined benefit (DB) pension funds stood at £530bn at the end of April 2017, a £30bn increase since last month.

However, latest life expectancy analysis - from the Continuous Mortality Investigation (CMI) - shows that we are no longer seeing the same rates of improvement in life expectancy experienced at the start of the 21st century, and which underpin many pension scheme deficit forecasts. If the more recent trend continues, £310bn could be wiped off the aggregate £530bn pension deficit, leaving £220bn.

Furthermore, pension fund assets would need to grow by an extra 1% a year more than currently assumed in deficit calculations, for the next 20 years, to cover the remaining £220bn deficit without needing company cash contributions.

[stewart64] 02/6/2017 19:12

Big problem for UK stocks will be the 50% hike in Corp tax if Labour were to pull it off, which I doubt. That would hit market cap by at least 10%, not that Corbyn and his comrades will need to worry on their 7 figure final salary packages. My guess is stocks like BT may rally on a Tory victory. Only the truly international blue chips like Zeneca can shrug off the Corbyn threat at the moment.

[spendalot] 02/6/2017 18:24

Funny how nothing has been mentioned about Gordon Brown when chancellor for that well known red party, when he decided (I believe) to tax to the hilt all of pension funds to get his hands on our money to keep funding their spending, causing all this havoc now.

[toon1966] 02/6/2017 18:20

Pacemaker1000 - I find your comments about people living longer thoroughly disgusting. I have no doubt you are the type of nasty individual who is glad atrocities in Kabul (that's in Afghanistan) and Manchester (England) take place to ensure average life expectancy remains low and hence protects your pension. If you had bothered doing any research you would have found life expectancy has been growing for many years: What a thoroughly nasty and reprehensible individual you are and the fact that you are unaware of how the BT pension is managed beggars belief. Please go away.....

[nige2410] 02/6/2017 16:18

Stupid of me to be a bit optimistic after seeing the share price touch £3.10 this morning...when will this end ??? No news good bad or otherwise from BT Senior Management just silence so what can we expect ...more of the same next week no doubt as we slide below £3.00

[pacemaker1000] 02/6/2017 16:08

I'm fed up with people being brainwashed into thinking we're living longer!
What's happened to the human gene pool in the last 10 years to give them that opinion. I certainly don't expect to live into my eighties, and given pensions are worked out for 20 years, with retirement at 65 I'm more than covered.

Am I wrong in thinking bt pension pot is not allowed to invest in the stock market?