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Monthly Archives: September 2011
PPF II -opening the door for a better DC
We are where we are – the social contract has been decided… not compulsion but impulsion; impulsion into a DC pensions model that relies on the markets to deliver a second tier of pensions. Our retirements will be funded from employer and employee contributions over a … Continue reading
Posted in annuity, corporate governance, Liability Driven Investment, NEST, OECD, pension playpen, twitter
Tagged annuity, Anti-submarine warfare, Business, corporate governance, corporate risk, Financial services, Insurance, Interest rate, Japan, Liability Driven Investment, Life annuity, Market failure, National Employment Savings Trust, NEST, OECD, pension, Pension new, pension playpen, Pension Pound, Pension Poverty, Pension Protection Fund, Pension Regulator, Public Sector Pensions, Robin Ellison, Steve Webb, twitter
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Yes – things are this bad in DC land!
We all know that equity markets have sent the value of our pension savings into free fall and some people understand that low prospective interest rates mean the amount of pension you can buy from your savings has fallen lower. But did … Continue reading
Posted in annuity, dc pensions, de-risking, pension playpen, pensions, Retirement
Tagged annuity, dc pensions, de-risking, Economics, Financial services, Forbes, Free fall, Insurance, Life annuity, National Employment Savings Trust, Open Market Option, pension, pension playpen, pensions, Politics, Reasonable person, Retirement, Saving, Society, Stock market
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From the Piccadilly tram
I have long wanted to go to work on a tram, through Salford. I write to you from Media City tram stop. I am bypassing the “Lowry Corporate wi-fi network” though the thought of Lowry endorsing mobile blogging appeals. Instead, courtesy … Continue reading
Posted in Salford Quays
Tagged boating, Britain, England, Manchester, Manchester Metrolink, Media City, MediaCityUK, Piccadilly, Salford, Salford Quays, Tram, Vodafone
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159 years good – my Mum and Dad
My Mum was 79 last month, my Dad is 80 on Sunday. Dad packed in work this year, my Mum completed the 700 mile South West coastal path – they are beginning to wind down. All too often it takes a … Continue reading
Posted in pension playpen, pensions, Retirement
Tagged Dad's Army, David Croft, Family, Fathers, Home, It Ain't Half Hot Mum, Jimmy Perry, Parenting, Pension new, pension playpen, Pensions, pensions, Retirement, South West
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“Our weapon is the camera”
Perhaps the measure of political control in Libya is calibrated by fear.
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Posted in Facebook, Libya, Middle East, OECD, social media, Syria, twitter
Tagged Assad, Bashar al-Assad, BBC, Cyberbury, Facebook, Government, Libya, Middle East, OECD, policing, social media, Society, Syria, twitter, United Nations, William Hague
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Scotland has hexed our cricket team.
Let’s make this clear- we do not want your support- your support is toxic. Now you have hexed our cricket team. Continue reading
Posted in cricket, The Ashes, Twickenham, World Cup
Tagged Aviemore, Caribbean, cricket, cycling, England, lords, Mark Cavendish, monkey league, Oval, Pension new, Politics, Scotland, Scottish people, Society, Sport in Scotland, The Ashes, Twickenham, World Cup, yeovil town fc
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Extending a hand to the Regulator
Saturday morning allows me time to expand on some hurried thoughts in my post The Regulator, wisdom and the crowd. Continue reading
Posted in corporate governance, dc pensions, pension playpen, pensions
Tagged Brighton, Canary Wharf, corporate governance, dc pensions, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, Pension new, Pension Play Pen, pension playpen, Pension Poverty, Pension Regulator, Pensions, pensions, Regulator, Whitehall
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The Regulator, wisdom and the crowd
The Pension Regulator, it needs be said , did not have a good Professional Pension Show. Things started well enough with a keynote speech that laid out its 2012 agenda Get DB solvent Get DC sorted Get Auto-Enrolment in Simples… And that … Continue reading
Posted in annuity, corporate governance, customer service, dc pensions, de-risking, Fiduciary Management, Liability Driven Investment, NEST
Tagged annuity, Bill Galvin, bribery act, Brighton, corporate governance, customer service, dc pensions, de-risking, Employment, Fiduciary Management, Financial services, Government, Human Resources, Keynote, Liability Driven Investment, National Employment Savings Trust, NEST, pension, Pension Regulator, Trusteeweb, William F. Galvin
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Nuts traced as market collapses – @ #ppshow
£64bn fell off the shares of the London stock market today. Meanwhile we were holed up in the Excel Centre, listening to the views of the great and the good.. Here are my good buddies Colin Wilson and David Harris. It … Continue reading
Posted in corporate governance, de-risking, pension playpen
Tagged 2012 Summer Olympics, Business, Colin Wilson, corporate governance, corporate risk, David Harris, de-risking, Economics, England, ExCeL London, Investing, London, OECD, Olympic Delivery Authority, Olympic Games, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Pension new, pension playpen, Stock market, Stocks and Bonds
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Feeding frenzy at the claims management zoo!
I was t-boned by an entrepreneurial garage owner on Saturday who , after shunting me off the road enterprisingly suggested that he would be happy to do the repairs on my car. I politely declined feeling it vaguely inappropriate. I … Continue reading
