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Monthly Archives: July 2010
Pensioner poverty- higher taxes or auto-enrolment?
We are chosing to put clever pension ideas in front of boring but sane collective provision as Beveridge originally conceived.
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Posted in NEST
Tagged auto-enrolment.DWP.Paul Johnson, NEST, pensions, retirment, Steve Webb
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Wacky races, corporate governance and Mr Hayward’s boat.
“Brand”,opined my former CEO, “is what we aspire to be, or at least to be seen as being”. I guess this is the actuarial equivalent of “corporate identity” which is the accounting version and refers to what you actually are. Continue reading
The German Grand Prix and fixed results
I have no doubt that Ferrari will have to bow to the pressure of the spectators who demand “racing” not team orders. Senior Executives who forget their wider stakeholders would do well to learn that the media by which their decisions are judged is now truly “social”. Continue reading
Posted in social media
Tagged Blake, Blog, BP, Dylan, Ferrari, FIA, Ian Hislop, Private Eye, social media
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Insurers at war
You’d have thought that the “last men standing”, the insurers – Zurich, Friends,Scottish Widows and Standard Life and the asset managers Blackrock, HSBC and Fidelity (themselves trading as insurers) would now concentrate on the serious business of filling the gap left by the collapse in DB accrual. However they have bigger ideas.
Gavin Henson – a proper father
Gavin Henson has a reputation for being vain and consequently superficial. He may be vain but he is not superficial.
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Tagged Charlotte Church, Fatherhood, Gavin Henson, rugby, Wales
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Neurosis on the web..
Ultimately, social media is just a more effecient means of conversing , something we cannot avoid and something that we have to experience through trial and error It cannot be taught-it can only be learned Continue reading
Social Media – Means the World to Me (via Social [Media] Butterflies)
I think the quote from Rupert Murdoch most telling. In the weeks ahead you can expect to see organisations such as the FT launching social media websites in an attempt to catch up with a revolution in communication. I suspect … Continue reading
Long Hot Summer
It’s time for level heads Continue reading
Tagged 1978, Politics, recession, recovery, summer of lover, The Clash, TRB
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Predicting winners
I have given up getting angry at occasional racegoers who pick a string of winners based on the colour of jockey’s silks, name of horse etc… Continue reading
Tagged alpha, Argentina, Brazil, fund management, Paraguay, stochastic, Uraguay, World Cup, World Cup 2010
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