Tag Archives: Leonard Cohen
Learning to love my consumer duty
I admit to putting off reading the first five chapters of the consumer duty as instructed by my compliance officer. I have now done so and a few selected chapters more, diligently noting salient paragraphs and rehearsing over-riding principles, cross-cutting … Continue reading
Frank Field – Companion of Honour.
Very nice to see @frankfieldteam become a Companion of Honour. New Year Honours: Political veteran Frank Field given exclusive honour https://t.co/W5vu0IdTLf — Dave Brooks (@PensionsDave) December 31, 2021 Frank Field is dying and dying as he has lived, in … Continue reading
Staying motivated with tough times ahead
I’m sure I’m not alone in feeling apprehensive. The winter is coming and the evenings are drawing in, London’s in the first stages of lockdown though this time we are behind our friends in the north. The furlough is unwinding … Continue reading
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Fanning the faint flame for better workplace pensions
Over the next few weeks, Britain’s various IGCs (and baby IGCs) will be reporting on the state of the insurers and the non-insured SIPP providers from an independent viewpoint. I have berated some of the IGC Chairs for being confused … Continue reading
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Tagged dc, Defined contribution plan, FCA, governance, IGC, law, Leonard Cohen, Money Purchase, pensions, regulation, TPR
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First we take Manhattan…
Canada bores me. I have only two cultural references for the place, Supertramp – (the band that drove me to punk in the 1970s) and South Park the movie which urges Americans to “blame Canada, they’re not even a real country anyway”. I know … Continue reading
A Transparency Taskforce?
A Transparency Taskforce? Sounds good doesn’t it? Echoes of the Falklands, of Maggie v the Argies (don’t mention the Belgrano) But the task force that will meet later this morning at the University of London Senate House, at the … Continue reading
Dear Government- “Five do’s, five don’ts” – #pensions
For those slipping quietly into retirement in the UK the political promises are about the revaluation of your state benefits, the payment of your winter allowance and the tax treatment of your savings and income. Whatever you have done or not … Continue reading
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“Thank God for the cellphone video camera”
So spoke the lawyer representing Freddie Gray’s family at a news conference this morning. “could not talk, could not breathe” reads the sign on a protestor’s cardboard placard. I’m not talking about the rights and wrongs of Baltimore- if you want … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Baltimore., black America, Blacklivesmatter, Freddie Gray, Leonard Cohen, light gets in, Transparency
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53 not out – but the Grim Reaper is bowling first change
When you are young you regard birthdays as a staging post to growing up. When you are over50 they become markers to the cemetery These cheery thoughts – “intimations on mortality” as Wordsworth described them, are with me as I listen to Leonard … Continue reading
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The inimitable Mr Leonard Cohen
The secret of his success is a great back catalogue and a band that changes as little as the rendition of the songs. Continue reading