Tag Archives: Australia
What have the Australians done for us – not much!
I’ve been asked to talk to some pension people later this month on Supertrusts and what we can learn from the Australian Superannuation System. I have attended a number of lectures on this subject over the past few years, mainly … Continue reading
When someone takes you over – stealing your e-mail identity
At 7.50 yesterday I logged onto my Gmail account in Leeds to find a message saying I’d changed my password twenty minutes before. Twenty minutes later I got a call from a friend in Australia that I’d asked him for money to … Continue reading
Posted in corporate governance, customer service, social media
Tagged Australia, Facebook, Google, Identity theft, Mail, Password, Security, Spain
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Australia squeeze home against South Africa at the Wanderers
For posterity, here is the last page of ESPNcricinfo’s wonderful commentary of the last overs of the Jo’burg test twixt the Saffers and the Aussies. South Africa 266 & 339 Australia 296 & 310/8 (86.5 ov) Australia won by 2 wickets Australia RR3.57 Last … Continue reading
Posted in cricket
Tagged Australia, Cape Town, Cummins, Dale Steyn, Imran Tahir, Johnson, Mitchell Johnson, South Africa
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The man from OECD says “guess”
It’s a sobering time for those involved in pensions policy and for those who are trying to advise companies and people in how to organises their finances to meet their retirement income needs. One thing people don’t want to do is guess. They … Continue reading
Posted in annuity, corporate governance, dc pensions, Liability Driven Investment, NEST, OECD, Retirement
Tagged annuity, Australia, Chile, corporate governance, corporate risk, dc pensions, Defined contribution plan, France, Germany, Liability Driven Investment, National Employment Savings Trust, NEST, OECD, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, pension, Pension new, Pensions, Persnal Accounts, Politics, Retirement, Stock market index, United States
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Clearing up a few things about pensions
We may need Superchoice to do our clearing up.
Why England can’t have won the Ashes
Thanks to the Aussie Telegraph of this excellent analysis of why England could not beat Australia in the recently completed Ashes series
Posted in The Ashes
Tagged Adelaide Oval, Australia, Ben Hilfenhaus, cricket, England, Graeme Swann, Kevin Pietersen, Mitchell Johnson, strauss, Stuart Broad, The Ashes
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