Palmer's Pensions: By no means time to take our foot off the gas...

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Recent figures show Britain is still not out of recession and how long an economic recovery might take will continue to spark debate for many months to come.

  A recent item club report from Ernst and Young had previously suggested it was too premature to talk about an economic recovery despite a growing wave of optimism and I have to say I would tend to agree with that school of thought. It worries me that we are too ready to get back to the ‘good old days' and in our haste to get there we are quick to forget some of the lessons we supposedly learned over the course of the last year. I say supposedly because I don't believe that when the bottom started to fall out of many corporate worlds, those affected took time to reflect. I think t...

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