This blogs itself whether mineworkers have had many breaks over the last 100 years and concludes that they haven't. So…
The answer to the groundhopping nerd's question at the end of that blog may be Hadley FC, but it's moot…
The discussion about housing and making better use of available space raises an interesting point: not everyone needs a large…
One of the biggest challenges in elderly care is making sure people receive support that reflects their individual needs, rather…
Monthly Archives: April 2013
Everybody need standards
Pensions should be as easy to buy as a can of baked beans Continue reading
Posted in auto-enrolment, pension playpen, pensions, social media
Tagged Actuarial science, DWP, Education, first actuarial, pension, pension playpen, Pension Regulator, Steve Webb
20 Comments
Starting a company
Thanks to twitter and in particular Rory Cellan-Jones, the BBC’s ace technology commentator for finding this piece . Rory talks of the “constant, daily upheaval of emotions” of anyone who starts a company Millions of people start companies and few … Continue reading
Posted in pension playpen, poetry, Start ups
Tagged BBC, Crowley, Dennis Crowley, Foursquare, Harry Potter, Om Malik, Rory Cellan-Jones, San Francisco
2 Comments
“This Monty Python – is he one of ours?”
There hasn’t been much of the Thatcher tribute Tsunami that I’ll remember, the eulogies are self-serving, the future’s more interesting than the past. But the story of the speech writer trying to explain the “dead parrot” sketch to Thatcher is … Continue reading
Posted in middleware, monty python
Tagged Dead Parrot sketch, Eric Idle, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Monty Python, Payroll, Python, Supply chain
10 Comments
Whatever we do, let’s do it together
I have just read a Report by Demos which ends like this The shift in private retirement coverage from traditional pensions to individual retirement plans has made the goal of a comfortable retirement a risky, costly gamble. A fortunate few will … Continue reading
PlayPen votes for target date funds in action-packed lunch
In one of the noisiest and most passionate lunches we’ve ever had the playpen voted 15-7-3 for TDFs vLifestyle with 3 spoilt votes from the “we don’t do default” gang. This was a lunch where we were pretty well split between … Continue reading
Posted in auto-enrolment, de-risking, Financial Education, pension playpen, pensions
Tagged Asset allocation, Aviva, Lifestyle, Mutual fund, pension, Target date fund, TDF, Watson
4 Comments
“Cynicism’s” trending on #pensions
I’m cynical about cynics – but in a nice way Continue reading
And why these “employer duties”?
Employers do not have fourty year business plans but employees do. We call those plans “careers”. Continue reading
Jack the Jouneyman; PlayPen nag up for the craic!
Thanks to Eamonn O’Connor, JLT’s top man and our good friend for leasing us his horse. Continue reading
Posted in Horse racing, pension playpen, Popcorn Pensions
Tagged Ffos Las, Ghost, God, Horse, Ludlow, Rebecca Curtis, Wales, Whitehall
2 Comments
Would you take your chance on a mastertrust?
It’s called proper choice and I’m all for GPPs and mastertrusts squaring up to each other and having the argument Continue reading
Posted in actuaries, auto-enrolment, brand, governance, pensions, Retirement
Tagged Aviva, Bus, Financial Services Authority, Grand National, Leyton, linkedin, Liverpool Street station, Paul Bannister
2 Comments
Footie chants – malicious or otherwise
let’s give ourselves a round of applause and not inflame any more bonfires. Continue reading
Posted in pensions, Yeovil Town
Tagged Brighton, Huish Park, Leeds, Norwich, Somerset, Tuesday, Yeovil, Yeovil True
6 Comments
That raises the wider question as to whether pension scheme surpluses should be "localised". Should TPR with it statutory duty…