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Can pensions be more playful (please)!
I’ve waded through a number of IGC chair reports this Easter weekend and a smile has seldom been on my lips. With the exception of the Virgin Money report, I hardly felt I knew who I was talking to. Ironically, … Continue reading
Posted in IGC, pension playpen, pensions, Personality
Tagged Blog, Engagement, Facebook, Fun, IGC, instagram, Linked in, pension playpen, snapchat, social media, twitter
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Pensions Resurgent! The merit of the CWU’s proposals to the Royal Mail
For the third day I am returning to the CWU’s proposals to the Royal Mail which I now consider the most important break through in pension scheme design we have seen in Britain this century. I base this on three … Continue reading
Posted in actuaries, advice gap, David Pitt-Watson, dc pensions, defined ambition, defined aspiration, pensions
Tagged CDC, CWU, David Pitt-Watson, Defined benefi, Eddy Truell, equities, Infrastructure, Linked in, pension, pensions, PIC, Royal Mail
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The Pensions Dashboard (and consumer demand)
“I didn’t know I wanted this, till I came here – I do now! This was the feedback from one tester of a dummy pension dashboard , as reported in an excellent presentation by Barclays’ Clive Grinyer at a … Continue reading
The (currently) sad state of Linked in Groups
Have you noticed how much harder it has become to find and use your linked in group? I run a number of groups, the biggest of which is the Pension Play Pen with over 7000 members. We have enjoyed steady growth … Continue reading
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Tagged Groups, Linked in, Moderation, Pension Play Pen, social media
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Linked In’s no website for old men!
Yeats wrote that Byzantium was no country for old men. He was right, according to the Daily Express, we are all on linked in leering at young girl’s profiles. It looks like the poem should get re-written for young women … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, Byzantium, corporate governance, corporate risk, Employment, Linked in, no country for old men, old men, pensions, sailing to Byzantium, WB Yeats, young women
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What does it mean – being connected?
By some measures I am well connected. By the strictly quantitative measure of linked in first degree connections I could be seen as a well-connected man. But I can assure you that internet connections give false security. Whether you have 50 … Continue reading
Posted in social media, Yeovil Town, zopa
Tagged blogs, connections, Digital connectivity, internet connections, Linked in, pensions, social media
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Addiction
Addiction is not a word that resonates positively. But we had a discussion yesterday centred on getting people addicted to properly managing their money, in which the word seemed entirely appropriate. People get addicted to courses of action resulting from a … Continue reading
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Tagged Addiction, advice, Business, dc pensions, digital guidance, Facebook, FAMR, financial education, financial education programs, Financial services, Financial Services Authority, Government, Linked in, momentum, MoneyHub, multiplier, Pension Protection Fund, Pension Regulator, Ros Altmann, social media, Society, Treasury, vitality
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Everything’s a prototype – nothing on the web will last.
The way people think about websites has changed so much over the past three years. This morning I read an article called “web design is dead” in which the author, Sergio Nouvel (@shesho) argues that internet innovation has shifted from … Continue reading
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Tagged API, app, application, Business, content, dc pensions, Linked in, mobiles, pension, Pension new, pension playpen, pensions, Retirement, social media, Society, twitter, watch, watches, web-design, WordPress
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Making social media work for us
One of the things that social media does, is blur the line between work and play. The distinction is one that employers , regulators and brands attempt to manage, often with arcane rules that make them a laughing stock to their … Continue reading
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Tagged Blog, employers, Employment, Facebook, instagram, Linked in, pension playpen, Pension Regulator, pensions, social media, twitter, WordPress
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