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The award is for what you deliver to your customers – HELLO FRIDAY!

Congratulations to everyone who was dressed up last night for whatever awards ceremony you were at. Award ceremonies now happen on Thursday nights making “Hello Friday” a business of waking up in a hotel bed with a stinking hangover and … Continue reading

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Help – I’ve been chat GPT’d!

  Ever get the feeling that the person on the other end of an email doesn’t mean a word they say? If you are the victim of inauthentic claptrap from ChatGPT you are probably left feeling what might be described … Continue reading

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WTF- AgeWage wins 4 nominations for UKP awards!

I got a call from a journalist friend of mine congratulating AgeWage on being nominated for a Professional Pensions UK Pensions Award.  I thought it was a wind up – but being a vain sort, I thought to see if … Continue reading

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Championing better funds – well done Chris Sier

And last but by no means least our 2019 industry champions are … #PIPA2019 @SierChris @margaretsnowdon pic.twitter.com/ImeRIye3Tr — Pensions Expert (@pensions_expert) May 15, 2019 It’s good to see Chris get this award and see him in his kilt Congratulations to … Continue reading

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Forever Young – final 3 – thanks for voting “Andy”!

Andy Young has done more than anyone else alive to better pensions in the UK. He deserves a lifetime achievement award for his work – so vote for him! Continue reading

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For all tomorrow’s parties

I would like to think myself a party person and I could have been called the pension piss-head for parts of my career. But I guess there’s a time when you get partied out and such a time was last … Continue reading

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Pension PlayPen overall winner at IMAIA 2014!

  We do “new”, not because old is wrong but because new is where the future is. So we entered the IMAIA this year at the behest of our friend and mentor Jenny Davidson, the new Reward Director at Talk … Continue reading

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Pension PlayPen- Britain’s most innovative pension consultancy

  Dawid Konotey-Ahulu mailed me yesterday to tell me we’d been named Engaged Investor’s most innovative pension consultancy. It’s a mark of Dawid’s genorosity that he thought to contact me, even though the firm he started Redington had (along with … Continue reading

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Help! Volunteers needed to pick up Pension Play Pen awards!

  Here is an unusual request but one you might just be able to help me with- it isn’t onerous! The first week of July is Henley week and it’s traditionally a time when we take Lady Lucy down the … Continue reading

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Would you vote for the Pension PlayPen?

  When you are building a brand, you need recognition and much as we’d love to be on News at 10 every week, our brand Pension PlayPen can only become relevent if it makes lots of noise. So I spend … Continue reading

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