Monthly Archives: November 2016
What would you give the block chain to do?
Think about what you hate most. I bet work has a lot to do with it! The “toad work” as Philip Larkin used to call it! I would like to do an audit of the things I hate most at … Continue reading
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Tagged Human Resources, Infrastructure, pension, Technology, toad, toad-work, Work
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When no news is good news! DB pension funds continue to look healthy
What is a pension fund but a long-term investment in our and our children’s later life? Why should we concern ourselves with short-term issues like quantitative easing or Donald Trump’s electoral success when we are planning deep into this century … Continue reading
Two months in and FABI makes its point
While other indices see wild volatility in the deficit positions of the PPF7800, the FABI index is already showing the material advantage of a smoothed approach to valuations. To put it in behavioural terms, you don’t have to popping champagne … Continue reading
Remembrance day – let’s stop fighting.
Today is the anniversary of the day we stopped the war on November 11th 1918. Two sides stopped the war and though the peace was a poor one, the relief of ending hostilities is remembered. More importantly the … Continue reading
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The Pension Dashboard – all dressed up with nowhere to go.
The number of pension providers who’ve paid to join the Government’s pension dashboard initiative has risen to 17. The initial pilot will be more complete because legacy pension providers like Phoenix have joined the hard core who offer new pensions … Continue reading
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Tagged CDC, Dashboard, Defined Ambition, Infrastructure, pension, Pension Dashboard, Richard Harrington, Technology
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Seeing beyond.
I was wondering down a valley in Gran Canaria and came accross Fortaleza de Ansite. What appeared a black hole in a rock face, became a magnificent vista of sky clouds and the fertile hills beyond. It seemed that something that … Continue reading
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OOPS – We did it again!
For the second time in a few months I awoke to an election result that shocked and scared me. America has voted for change, just as Britain voted for change (ironically the one election that didn’t bring change was the … Continue reading
Out of my comfort zone
I spent much of yesterday in and around the resort of Maspalomas, Gran Canaria’s answer to Blackpool. Masplaomas brings together an area of outstanding natural beauty with tat I spent more time in tat, than beauty and deliberately so. I … Continue reading
Smoke and daggers (Con Keating on ”confusions and misunderstandings”)
This article was published in yesterday’s Professional Pensions and is published here in its entirety with the permission of Con Keating. A search on Con Keating will give up other articles on this topic to which this blog refers! Given … Continue reading
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Tagged accrual rate, Contract, deferred annuity, Invesment, pension
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I believe in a promised land
Being on a rock mid-Atlantic gives you some new perspectives. Like why our jam doesn’t taste of fruit – and how we manage to keep our dogs quiet in the morning. Listening to the dogs of Santa Lucia shout accross … Continue reading
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Tagged Clinton, darkness on the edge of town, Donald Trump, election, John Mauldin, music, Per Andelius, Springsteen, Trump
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