Monthly Archives: March 2012
“I felt I’d helped”
What I am most keen to do, is to make sure that the pride that drove the simple words “I felt I helped”, is remembered and used by the youngsters when times get tough again.
Make NEST the dustbin of our pension dreams?
We all like the idea of having all our retirement funds in a big pot which we can manage efficiently and value easily. But not at any price! This link takes you to a version of Aegon’s submission to Government on “operation … Continue reading
Posted in annuity, Change, NEST
Tagged Aegon, DWP, NAPF, National Employment Savings Trust, Open Market Option, pension, Retirement, Steve Webb
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The kids are more right
We all move at different speeds; some of us use the web like our front room and share it with others without a second thought. Some of us see the web and the social sites with fear and loathing. I listened … Continue reading
How digitization is changing our lives
Here is a good presentation from Booz & Co Watch the video by pressing the link. To those on the cutting edge – this is old hat. But there is a lag between what’s happening on the edge and how the rest of … Continue reading
Posted in social media
Tagged Business, Internet Marketing, IPad, Microsoft PowerPoint, Presentation, Prezi, social media, Web application
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#Fanpowerstadium Yeovil Town
I once thought if you blew hear enough in a certain direction you would create a vacuum between you and your breath into which your body would move so that eventually you would end up where you blew. This idea … Continue reading
Posted in Facebook, social media, twitter, Yeovil Town
Tagged Football League One, Gary Johnson, Huish Park, N-Power, Terry Skiverton, Yeovil, Yeovil Town, yeovil town fc
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We don’t follow the Bournemouth.
For most of my life, I supported AFC Bournemouth (or Bournemouth and Boscombe FC as they were). I switched my allegiance to Yeovil some eight years ago , disgusted by the goings on at the club. My brother Greg persisted but on … Continue reading
Posted in Bankers, Yeovil Town
Tagged A.F.C. Bournemouth, Bournemouth, Bradbury, Eddie Howe, Football League, Jacqui Oatley, Lee Bradbury, Terry Skiverton
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Steve Webb’s good week
Now anyone who can talk of a “regulatory regime which allows 1000 flowers to bloom” has got to have been taking the happy pills. Continue reading
Posted in annuity, auto-enrolment, dc pensions, defined aspiration, Liberal Democrats, Management, NEST, pension playpen, pensions, Popcorn Pensions, Treasury
Tagged Defined benefit pension plan, Department for Work and Pensions, DWP, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, Pensions Management Institute, Ros Altmann, Steve, Steve Webb, Tesco, UK State Pension, Webb
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Now more than ever we need to remember why universal benefits are important
Now more than ever we need to remember why universal benefits are important.
Posted in Change, dc pensions, Henry Tapper blog
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