Category Archives: poetry
Get up! Stand up! For your pension rights!
Governance on these schemes cannot be imposed by Government, it needs to happen organically – bottom up. Continue reading
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
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Interesting….spin is self-defeating
every time we say one thing and mean another, we are creating distrust in the person who we are talking or writing to Continue reading
“Three into two won’t go”- NO EXIT at Playpen lunch!
Three into two won’t go – but I can say this was the hardest but most rewarding meeting I have yet chaired Continue reading
Posted in pension playpen, pensions, Personality, poetry, Popcorn Pensions
Tagged Business, David, DNA, Funds, Investment management, Jeremy Spencer, Lunch, Mutual fund
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The RDR has scotch’d the snake not killed it!
the FSA has “scotched the snake not killed it”. Continue reading
Ten reasons to join the Pension Play Pen!
I’m excited! Driving through Berkshire and Hampshire to work it showed 8 degrees on the dashboard, I drove open-top and imagined I was Jane Austen in a pony and trap (the pony called Frankel)! I’m excited because there are 2499 members … Continue reading
Posted in Payroll, pension playpen, pensions, poetry, The Racket of the Lambs
Tagged Berkshire, Bristol, Edinburgh, Hampshire, Jane Austen, London, Pen, pension, Racket, White Hart
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Beautiful women, beautiful boats and beautiful days on the river!
Ye distant spires, ye antique towers, That crown the watery glade, Where grateful Science still adores Her Henry’s holy shade; And ye, that from the stately brow Of Windsor’s heights th’ expanse below Of grove, of lawn, of mead survey, … Continue reading
Posted in Cruise boats, gloriana, Lady Lucy, pension playpen, poetry
Tagged Conditions and Diseases, Eric Thames, Health, Henry, London, River Thames, Shopping, Thames
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“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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