Tag Archives: Journalist
Struggling to compute the risk of being paid a pension by Microsoft?
7.7% of my savings for retirement are invested in one company – Microsoft, more than a quarter in one sector, US technology. By comparison less than 4% of my savings are invested in the UK. When someone who runs a … Continue reading
Posted in pensions
Tagged DC pots, ft, Journalist, Microsoft, New York, Pot, Steven Meier, Technology
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How do you make money as a freelance blogger?
A question I get asked surprisingly rarely are “how do you make money as a freelance journalist”. Infact I only ever get this question when I go to the PLSA conferences and that’s because the PLSA let me use their … Continue reading
Why corporate PR is seldom – value for money.
I am now clear why so few pensions offer savers value for money, it is because so much of our money goes on buying Elizabeth Pfeuti champagne and fine food. Delivering a 68 minute deluge of vitriol, her only brief … Continue reading
Why bloggers won’t replace journalists
She gets the aggregates and cements, mixes the concrete , lays it and sells the building! Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, auto-enrolment, pensions
Tagged Education, Employee benefit, Human Resources, Journalist, Payroll, pension, Whitbread, Yeomen Warders
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The growing epidemic of stats misuse
Hilary Salt is founder of First Actuarial plc. She is currently the Actuarial Post’s Actuary of the Year. Late in 2011 she was asked to contribute a piece to the Independent’s Battle of the Ideas. This is what she wrote . Twenty years ago, … Continue reading
Posted in actuaries, Martin Lewis, Music, pensions, Trades Union Congress, Treasury
Tagged Harvard University, Journalist, Math, Nate Silver, New Zealand, SpongeBob SquarePants, Statistics, United States
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