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Tag Archives: China
Who will disrupt western financial markets?
Maarten Ectors, L&G’s Chief Innovation Officer, writes regularly about using innovation to create new businesses. He has created Fintechs himself and now holds sway over innovation in one of Britain’s most powerful financial institutions. When he writes, he writes with … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, blockchain
Tagged China, DeFi, Disruption, FinTech, L&G, Maarten Ectors, Tik-tok
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COVID-19; Out of Africa?
Cases in Africa If the COVID-19 situation and outcome is far from clear and certain in countries such as UK, the same could be said with even more justification for countries in Africa. Just as questions can be asked about … Continue reading
Posted in coronavirus, pensions
Tagged actuaries, Actuaries Response Group, China, Covid-19, Dermot Grenham
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Social distancing – UK is not like China!
A new paper “An international comparison of the second derivative of COVID-19 deaths after implementation of social distancing measures” has received some attention over the weekend. Perhaps because it was published by individuals from the same university, the paper has … Continue reading
Posted in actuaries, advice gap, coronavirus, pensions
Tagged Actuariies, C19, China, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Matt Fletcher, UK
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Understanding the Great Fall of China (in the pub).
While y’all went on holiday, market analysts threw a tantrum , Emerging stock Markets tanked and the Developed Markets went red and green faster than a traffic light. I love writing this stuff, it makes me feel grown up – like I had some job … Continue reading
The markets are back but the damage is done.
There are those who thrive on the ups and downs of the stock market; high frequency traders take fractional advantage of moves up and down and like wind farms, make most when it’s stormy. You can buy and sell this … Continue reading
Posted in pensions
Tagged annuity, auto enrolment, Business, CDC, China, collectives, corporate governance, corporate risk, damage, dc pensions, Defined benefit pension plan, Financial services, Government, income drawdown, Paul Lewis, Pension new, pension playpen, pensions, Retirement, The Great Fall of China
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There’s a lot we can learn from town planning
Many towns around the western world started out as Roman garrisons. Primitive stockades gave way to fortified settlements which attracted local residents who set up communities outside the fort’s walls. In time, the communities became protected by the Romans and the distinctions … Continue reading
Posted in auto-enrolment, pensions, town planning
Tagged China, Facebook, Gated community, Martin Lewis, Online Communities, Roman, Rome, twitter
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We should be proud to have an opt-out!
An old friend of mine tweets me beginning “I’m a libertarian but…!” The but is an objection to the feckless being able to opt out of their pension plan. Of course she is a fascist though you cannot tell her that any … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, auto-enrolment, corporate governance, dc pensions, doctors, happiness, iphone, pension playpen, pensions
Tagged Chile, China, Fascism, Opt-out, pension, Politics, Russia, Smartphone
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The economic history of the world in one little graph
That headline is a big promise. But here it is: The economic history of the world going back to Year 1 showing the major powers’ share of world GDP, from a research letter written by Michael Cembalest, an analyst … Continue reading
Posted in economics, Facebook, Financial Education, twitter
Tagged China, GDP, Gross domestic product, India, Industrial Revolution, Japan, Malthusian Trap, World population
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“A million maybe two million died – nobody knows”
This from BBC Radio 5 live this morning; a reminder of the North Korean famine that is thought to have wiped anything from 800,000 to 3.5m people between 1995 and 2002. This from Wikipedia In 1998, US Congressional staffers who visited the country … Continue reading
Posted in North Korea
Tagged Black Death, China, David Beckham, Jimmy Carter, Kim, Kim Il-sung, Kim Jong-il, North Korea, North Korean, South Korea
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