{"id":2373,"date":"2018-01-17T02:21:10","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T02:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=2373"},"modified":"2017-12-01T15:15:15","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T15:15:15","slug":"the-dangers-of-cash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=2373","title":{"rendered":"The Dangers of Cash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cash is king. Cash is liquidity, but actually it can be a very value eroding investment, as inflation (rising prices) can devalue and erode the purchasing power of cash<\/p>\n<p>A real example of the risk of holding cash in an pension fund is here:-<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/factsheets.financialexpress.net\/SLEFL\/EUY4_RX.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/factsheets.financialexpress.net\/SLEFL\/EUY4_RX.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Standard Life L&amp;G Cash Pension Fund<\/p>\n<p>The table below shows the fall in value of the fund. Grim reading.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Presentation1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-2374\" src=\"http:\/\/asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Presentation1-300x169.gif\" alt=\"Presentation1\" width=\"430\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Presentation1-300x169.gif 300w, https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Presentation1-1024x576.gif 1024w, https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Presentation1-624x351.gif 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cash is king. Cash is liquidity, but actually it can be a very value eroding investment, as inflation (rising prices) can devalue and erode the purchasing power of cash A real example of the risk of holding cash in an pension fund is here:- http:\/\/factsheets.financialexpress.net\/SLEFL\/EUY4_RX.pdf The Standard Life L&amp;G Cash Pension Fund The table below [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2375,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373\/revisions\/2375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}