Monthly Archives: April 2012
Steve Webb needs hard cash for his defined ambitions.
Steve Webb needs more than “ambition” to sort out disillusion with pensions. Continue reading
Posted in Financial Education, happiness, NEST, pensions
Tagged Daily Telegraph, David Cameron, Department for Work and Pensions, Government, pension, Private sector, Steve Webb, Webb
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Trenton Oldfield – send the plonker home!
Trenton Oldfield is the fellow who swam in front of the Oxford and Cambridge crews in yesterday’s 158th boat race. Video here. He is Mr Chippy, an Australian intellectual so carried away by his peculiar world view that he put his … Continue reading
Posted in Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race
Tagged Boat Race, Emily Davison, London, Oxford, River Thames, Royal Society of Arts, Thames, Tideway
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In the DC garden, all is not a bed of roses
I’ve been reading the latest report from the Friends Life Workplace Savings Index which you too can read by pressing this link. The report is powered by DCisions, an organisation that crunches numbers and produces reports on people’s pension investments. I … Continue reading
Posted in annuity, auto-enrolment, Change, corporate governance, dc pensions, de-risking, NEST, pensions
Tagged Company, Friends Life, Insurance, Investment, Investment strategy, Life annuity, Lifestyle, pension, Rate of return, Retirement
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Snow business
On Monday evening the Tapsmobile set it’s wheels in a northerly direction and the following morning rolled into the little Perthshire village of Kinlochrannoch. We left in a balmy 17 degrees of sunshine and arrived in a snowstorm. Such changes in climate … Continue reading
Pension play pen lunches endorses Kay on corporate governance.
The lunch of April 2nd was attended by 12 of our number, being;- Sarah Hargraves – Pension administrator with Unison Jon Thorne – Secretary to the FRC‘s (Financial Reporting Council) actuarial user committee Anita North – Hewistons Janet Hennessey – Hennessey … Continue reading
Posted in Change, corporate governance, pension playpen, pensions
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SHOULD INVSTORS BE PREPARED TO PAY FOR CORPORATE ENGAGEMENT?
This is the question we’ll be debating at today’s pension play pen lunch. I’m a little daunted . I’ve read Professor John Kay‘s excellent paper about how equities work, should work and why they could work better. He’s in the middle … Continue reading
Posted in Bankers, Change, corporate governance, FSA, happiness, pensions
Tagged Business, City of London, Economic, Financial intermediary, Financial services, Investing, John Kay, Stock market
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