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51 years old , twice married, one son. Cambridge Graduate , Icelandic fisherman, failed management consultant. Rugby player, oarsman and double bassist.
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- More cobblers from investment experts on DC pensions
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- If I were Steve Webb..
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Category Archives: Nick Clegg
Can we have a word Mr Webb?
You mentioned that there should be a default position (on mallowstreet). I have argued that there is a default decumulation position, it is a level single life annuity provided by the insurer that managed your pension accumulation. This is a “pot-luck” position and many are buying appalling annuities as a result. This is at the root of what we, Robin Ellison, Con Keating, Alan Higham , the AMNT and Kevin Wesbroom, (to name but a handful of those calling for change), are trying to address. Continue reading
Posted in annuity, auto-enrolment, corporate governance, customer service, dc pensions, de-risking, Fiduciary Management, Liberal Democrats, NEST, Nick Clegg, pension playpen, pensions, Personal Accounts, Retirement
Tagged Civil service, Con Keating, Derek, Dutch, Dutch people, Government, Life annuity, pension, Pension Protection Fund, Steve Webb
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Rising to Beecroft’s challenge- can we make pensions work for micro-employers?
Scanning the Pension Press as one does when having breakfast these days, I came across an excellent piece of reporting on Pension Insight (fast becoming one of the best on-line pension publications). New laws are to be introduced which will … Continue reading
Posted in annuity, corporate governance, customer service, dc pensions, de-risking, Fiduciary Management, mallowstreet, NEST, Nick Clegg, pension playpen, pensions, Personal Accounts
Tagged Coalition, David Cameron, Downing Street, Government, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, Small business, Steve Webb
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Sexy cash for pensions – Politician nearly loses his patience
No matter how blameless Stevie may be, he’s only as good as his team. He protests that the DWP and the Treasury are the best of mates; the malpractice exposed like Alan Higham smacks of the DWP getting a little too close to the “dark side”. Continue reading
Posted in annuity, corporate governance, customer service, dc pensions, de-risking, NEST, Nick Clegg, pensions, Retirement
Tagged Actuary, Alan, Alan Higham, Alliance Boots, DWP, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, Steve, Stevie
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Who is Christopher Robin?
The act of reading these stories and poems is to step into Christopher Robin’s shoes and embrace a vlue system that has driven the governing class of Britian for two hundred years. You should try it sometime- it really is scary!
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Mittens- that wd stop em lootin
”More than 90,000 people have signed an online petition calling for anyone convicted of taking part in the riots to lose benefits they get” Thomas Hardy wrote a book of poems entitled “life’s little ironies”. He’d have seen the humour in … Continue reading
Posted in Facebook, Nick Clegg, poetry, social media, twitter
Tagged Blackberry Messenger, Clapham, Facebook, Fatherhood, linked in, London riots, Looting, Monday Night Football, Nick Clegg, Pirates of Penzance, poetry, Politics, Rage against the Machine, social media, Society, Thomas Hardy, twitter
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“I just want to show the rich I can do what I want”
If that girl in Croydon and the thousands of disaffected rioters have done anything positive for me – they’ve got me thinking just how big the gap between me and them is. Perhaps I don’t feel quite as comfortable as I did a week ago.
Posted in Nick Clegg, social media
Tagged Bob Dylan, Bridge, Crime, Croydon, croydon, England, Hoodie, London, London riots, Looting, Monday Night Football, Nick Clegg, Politics, Riot, social media, Society, Teresa May, twitter
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A riot of my own
If you don’t get the reference , you probably didn’t grow up in the late 70s, but here’s White Riot by the Clash in case you thought waht we’ve seen over the past three nights is anything new.
Unavoidable, necessary and futile – the fight for public sector pensions
Because the unions only speak for those they define as their own – they do not speak for me – nor I for them. Continue reading
Posted in dc pensions, Liberal Democrats, NEST, Nick Clegg, pensions, Retirement
Tagged Bryn Davies, Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander, dc pensions, Dorset, Dorset County Council, Economics, John Denham, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Liberal Party of Canada, Methodism, NEST, Nick Clegg, Pension new, Pension Poverty, pensions, Politics, Public Sector Pensions, Retirement, Society, Tony Benn, Trade union
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Coalition – come clean on your plan for our pension.
My criticism of the Green Paper is that while it is long on philosophising on the impact of longevity, the need for fairness and for personal responsibility, it’s short on idntifying the winners and losers in the process.
Posted in NEST, Nick Clegg, pension playpen, pensions
Tagged Consumer price index, Flat rate, Green paper, Hargreaves Lansdown, Means test, National Employment Savings Trust, National Insurance, NEST, Nick Clegg, Outsourcing, pension, Pension new, pension playpen, Pension Poverty, pensions, Personal pension scheme, State Second Pension
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Clegg4pm- strange things happen.
There is a very real possibility that Nick Clegg will become our next prime minister – albeit with no overall majority. Whether he will comes down to whether voters will retain their current sense of adventure or take fright at the prospect of something quite new. Continue reading
