Category Archives: Horse racing
Britain’s Premier Equine Investment Conference
Thoughts turn to Cheltenham. The Pension Play Pen will decamp there after work this evening . Continue reading
Why we must get resolution on pension charges
We shouldn’t underestimate the task the 14 members of the ABI have set themselves in promising to fully disclose charges and costs (see previous blog). 14 insurers have made the pledge but there are many insurers that haven’t nor are … Continue reading
Frankel you wonderhorse!
I wrote my first post on Frankel towards the start of his career and I’m posting this on his last – well as a racehorse – what happens next is hopefully just as fun! Here’s another great video that pins together a … Continue reading
Come Racing at Windsor!
All summer long we’ve been waiting for some sun, and whew- it’s come! London‘s best kept secret is Windsor races on a Monday night. Whatever racecourse let you arrive by boat? Where else do the stallhandlers bunk off from their … Continue reading
Posted in Horse racing, Olympics, Olympics 2012
Tagged Dorney, England, Eton, Eton College, London, Monday, Monday Night Football, Windsor Star
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Savvy punters will drive down pension charges.
Inefficient markets – don’t you just love ’em! We all love a bargain whether at the local boot or in the stock market. There was a time when I believed I could pick a stock or a horse and beat … Continue reading
Posted in auto-enrolment, Bankers, dc pensions, defined aspiration, economics, Horse racing, leadership, Management, Martin Lewis, NEST, pensions, Retail Distribution Review
Tagged ABI, Efficient-market hypothesis, Funds, Investing, Investment, Investment management, Labour, Martin Lewis, pension, Pitt-Watson, RSA
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Let it rain, let it rain, let it rain
The River Thames is hammering past my patio delivering the rain that’s fallen in mid England back to the ocean, it curls under Windsor bridge and pounds down to Romney Weir past Minivet and on to Eton College. Years ago … Continue reading
Posted in Change, cricket, football, Horse racing
Tagged Britishness, England, Eton College, Lytham St Annes, Rain, River Thames, Robert Rock, Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club
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The day the world turned orange – Grand National 2012
The Grand National of 2012 will be remembered for good and bad. Detractors will point to the shocking deaths of According to Pete and Synchronised, the shambles of Sychonised’s final minutes played out in the most desperate fashion. Others will remember it … Continue reading
Posted in cheltenham festival, Horse racing
Tagged Aintree, Coleen Rooney, Grand National, Hales, Liverpool, Liverpool Everton, Merseyside, Neptune Collonges, Paul Nicholls
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Building an online community
The Kings Men I am sitting on a misty Cotswold hill in utter tranquility. Only the pad of the keys breaks the silence. The morning is still and there is a prospect of a beautiful day. I am alone. … Continue reading
Posted in cheltenham festival, customer service, Facebook, Henry Tapper blog, Horse racing, pension playpen, Pension Rocks III, pensions, social media, twitter
Tagged cheltenham festival, Chipping Norton, Little Rollright, Online community, Pension Play Pen, Piers Plowman, Rollright Stones, William Langland
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Now for Cheltenham.
Cheltenham‘s the start of spring- not the place or the racecourse or the horses but the decamping to the Cotswolds for a week of full throttle fun. The house gets cleaned out as binoculars and trilbies are hunted down, the car is … Continue reading
Posted in cheltenham festival, Horse racing, pension playpen
Tagged Cheltenham, cotswolds, Cottage Rake, Dawn Run, Desert Orchid, Golden Miller, Kauto Star, Paul Nicholls
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