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WE’VE GOT OUR POPCORN PENSIONS!

There have been a few times in my life that I have felt completely happy, the birth of my son, winning a scholarship to Bryanston and a telephone call received yesterday evening are three that spring to mind. Moments when your sense of self-worth is captured completely in the realisation that something wonderful has happened. Continue reading

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Popcorn Pensions III – transforming the business of Pensions

If you’ve been following my posts recently, (thanks) you’ll be aware of a thread defined by the phrase “Popcorn Pensions” that refers to my friend Peter Shellswell’s KFC moment. Peter told me over the Popcorn Chicken that he’d decided to move on from … Continue reading

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A hunger to educate – more on Popcorn Pensions

Hunger is not a word you’d associate with actuaries. One of our clients described the team working for her as “happy puppies” who approached the task of educating members with ” hunger“. These are not words that exist in the … Continue reading

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Don’t tell me what to do – give me advice!

In a recent polldaddy poll I asked whether people would pay for advice to get information, find out their options or to be told what to do. 60% of people wanted options , 30% wanted to be told what to do and 10% … Continue reading

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Small businesses wanting to avoid small pensions

In September we sent out 80,000 e-mails to companies in the UK with between 5 and 100 staff, the sort of companies that will be obliged to auto-enrol their staff  between 2014 and 2015 and are today obliged to offer their staff a … Continue reading

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None of my business

I went to a meeting last week at the end of which the pension manager I was speaking with asked “I can see why this matters but why are you bothering?”. A very sensible question as it happened since the commercial … Continue reading

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How much volatility can we take? Pension Play Pen Lunch Sept 5th 2011

James Smith- First Actuarial Ben Mulroney- mallowstreet Jenny Kreser - Silverman Sherliker Mark Benfold  Railway Pension Scheme Malcolm Delahaye - Supertrust Jennny Yeo  – Affiliate Managers Paull Chapple -Close Brothers Jeroen Wilbrink - Partner at SECOR Asset Management Thornton Wells  – Mattioli Woods Michael Clarke -Capita … Continue reading

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The case for doing nothing

There is a case for doing nothing and it is a logical case- but it’s not a course of action I intend to follow, Continue reading

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Couldn’t have put it better myself

“In a year’s time”, he says, “it will almost certainly look totally different to this”. Continue reading

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Welcome to my (Facebook) world

The time has come to reorganise the pensions message so it can fit on the screen of a mobile phone and is worthy of sitting in Facebook in boxes and on Facebook walls.
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