Category Archives: monkey league
How to have fun without breaking the bank
Well you wouldn’t have thought that the newly opened Center Parcs near Woburn would afford 200 actuaries and pension geeks a good time. But you’d be reckoning without the child within that drives First Actuarial at work and play. The … Continue reading
Posted in actuaries, CDC, Center Parcs, monkey league, pension playpen
Tagged Alan Smith, CDC, Centre Parcs, Derek Benstead, first actuarial, Hilary Salt, Mark Riches, pension playpen, Peter Shellswell, Woburn
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Sign up for The First Actuarial Monkey League -2014 !
You can save yourself reading 644 words of Pension Plowman pontification and sign up for the Monkey League here. Or you can read the blog and take your decisions at the end. Here’s why I’m promoting our Monkey … Continue reading
Posted in Financial Conduct Authority, Financial Education, First Actuarial, monkey league, pensions
Tagged Business, corporate governance, corporate risk, dc pensions, Employment, Financial services, First Actuairal, first actuarial, Investing, Investment, Investment management, monkey league, Pension Protection Fund, Pension Regulator, pensions
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Chimp or chump? Fund Managers: Really, Really Bad at What They Do
For some years, First Actuarial have been running a “Monkey League” which pits the wits of 150 top brains against 1000 monkeys; the task, to pick two teams to do well and two to do badly in each of the four football … Continue reading
Posted in dc pensions, First Actuarial, monkey league, pensions
Tagged Active management, Asset management, IBM, Index fund, Motley Fool, Mutual fund, S&P 500, Standard & Poor, Vanguard Group, Wall Street
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