Category Archives: corporate governance

The language that we use

Posted on February 17, 2012 by

This from the normally readable Booznews This year’s fact-based shopper marketing study, prepared in partnership with Shopper Sciences and the Grocery Manufacturers Association, reveals, among other findings, that leading CPG manufacturers and retailers are increasingly adopting a solutions-based approach to amplify … Continue reading →

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Define your aspiration.

Posted on February 13, 2012 by

Last week, the brotherhood  of DB and DC pensions got a little sister when Steve Webb introduced the prospect of DA to the family. There is nothing new about the search for a third way, indeed it is the pensions equivalent of the … Continue reading →

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Do we need guarantees on the pensions we get? Pension Play Pen lunch – Feb 6th

Posted on February 7, 2012 by

There was a peculiar diversity of participants in this month’s pension lunch which led to an extraordinary debate and the closest of votes. Our lunch group split into three groups 1. Those who followed a broadly paternalistic line (Stav, Bill,Mike … Continue reading →

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Selling NEST and auto-enrolment to the pension weary

Posted on February 2, 2012 by

The issue of fatigue is high on my agenda this morning - especially Regulatory Fatigue. Yesterday the DWP published a host of documents that can be accessed through this link http://www.dwp.gov.uk/consultations/2011/workplace-pension-reform-2011.shtml It dots the “i”s and crosses the “t’s” on a … Continue reading →

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Don’t blame Stephen Hester – we made his rules.

Posted on January 30, 2012 by

If anything is to be learned from current events, it needs to be learned about how the rules are established (not whether they are applied). Continue reading →

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Controlling wealth is not the same as generating wealth

Posted on January 26, 2012 by

IFAs Control £591bn of Britain’s wealth. That’s a whole lot of moley. Continue reading →

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THE PHILOSOPHY OF TRUST – Onora O’Neil

Posted on January 23, 2012 by

I came across this on mallowstreet and thought it relevent to many of the discussions on this blog. I’ve written about ethics and political philosophy all my working life, but until the last two years I did not write on … Continue reading →

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10 infrastucture opportunities pension funds cannot ignore!

Posted on January 22, 2012 by

The Government has announced that it wants UK pension funds to invest in UK infrastructure. This week we saw a slice of Thames Water purchased by the Chinese. I live on the Thames and as dawn rises this morning I’m on “Junk Alert” on “the partially yellow river”. Continue reading →

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“Making Pension Charges Clearer” – good on the NAPF

Posted on January 21, 2012 by

The NAPF, as I’ve mentioned a few times on this blog, are a rather better trade body than you’d expect . Revitalised by Joanne Seagers and Dan Torjussen-Proctor they appear a more progressive member centric organisation than in years gone by. Ambitiously, they … Continue reading →

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To get better pensions we need to share risk

Posted on January 17, 2012 by

Yesterday, Steve Webb announced he was  to review the level of protection that needed to be provided to private pensions in payment. His  intention is to help the solvency of defined benefit schemes which might need to reserve less for future guarantees. He is … Continue reading →

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