Category Archives: leadership
Investing in the sunny uplands!
A common theme in my blogs is the frustration that people get stuck in the wrong kind of investments wrong in terms of charges, wrong in terms of management and wrong in terms of the suitability of the fund to a … Continue reading
TESCO extra pensions
I’ve followed Tesco’s progress towards the staging of auto-enrolment closely this week. I think we are at a tipping point in pension provision in Britain, a point which could see the return of pensions that do what they say on … Continue reading
“The Employer’s Duty”
We talk blithely of the employer’s duties as if these obligations were pre-ordained. Economic Liberals may ask how we got to a world in which the Pension Regulator can issue a document entitled “Employer Duties and defining the workforce – an … Continue reading
Posted in actuaries, Bankers, dc pensions, Financial Education, FSA, Henry Tapper blog, leadership, Management, pension playpen, pensions, poetry, Popcorn Pensions
Tagged Business and Economy, DWP, Employment, Financial services, Government, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, William Blake
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Does your pension scheme need advice?
WARNING- THIS BLOG CONTAINS A SHAMELESS PLUG FOR OUR SERVICES! (transparent as always!) I’m travelling up to Nottingham this morning to talk to Employers and Trustees who are asking themselves “Does our pension scheme need advisers”. Meeting similar groups recently, the answers I’m … Continue reading
Posted in actuaries, annuity, auto-enrolment, Change, customer service, dc pensions, de-risking, defined aspiration, Financial Education, FSA, happiness, leadership, Linkedin, mallowstreet, Popcorn Pensions, Retirement, social media, Treasury
Tagged Business, Company, Employment, Fee (remuneration), Insurance, National Employment Savings Trust, Nottingham, pension
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Send in forensic actuaries to sort out these “rip-off” pensions!
Spookily, a couple of hours after I’d published yesterday’s blog about how the DWP had ducked the dodgy question of how to sort out legacy pension charges, Steve Webb, the Pension Minister issued an appeal to the pensions industry to … Continue reading
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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Reformation The Mallowstreet Party
Vincent Franklin looked out from what used to be the roof of City Telephone Exchange. The Exchange (according to Con Keating) had walls fifteen metres thick and had been built to withstand a nuclear bomb. They’d pulled it down to … Continue reading
Posted in Bankers, Change, Church of England, corporate governance, economics, Fred Goodwin, leadership, mallowstreet, Olympics, Olympics 2012, pension playpen, pensions, redington, Retirement
Tagged Business, dc pensions, Financial services, Human Resources, pension playpen, Pension Poverty, pensions, Retirement, Society
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The 6 People You Need in Your Corner
I voted for the Taskmaster Continue reading
Posted in Consolation, leadership, Management, social media
Tagged Business, cheerleader, connector, doubter, example, instigater, Social Networking, taskmaster, teams, Work
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