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A riot of my own
If you don’t get the reference , you probably didn’t grow up in the late 70s, but here’s White Riot by the Clash in case you thought waht we’ve seen over the past three nights is anything new.
When “two sevens clash”
When I was a kid growing up in a very white part of Britain, I was fascinated by a guy called Joseph Hill who was predicting a calamity on the 7th July 1977 which pretty well brought to Jamaica to a … Continue reading
Blog from a bus
I’ve never blogged from a bus before but this one’s going so slowly up to Hammersmith from Brentford that I’m blogging to keep myself awake- hope I don’t put you to sleep.
“You’re on your own in retirement” claims blue-blood at Pension Play Pen lunch.
Dick Strattan gives collective DC a kick in the nuts.
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Posted in annuity, NEST, pension playpen
Tagged annuity, Deloitte, Economics, Facebook, gordon brown, Insurance, linkedin, London, Lunch, National Employment Savings Trust, NEST, pension, pension playpen, Pensions, Retirement, Thatcherism
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The Pension Play Pen on good DC outcomes
The Pension Regulator has asked us the question and though the questions asked in a rather woolly way, it’s interesting to see what the Regulator it (him?) self considers the main priorities. Appropriate contribution decisions Appropriate investment decisions Efficient effective … Continue reading
GIVE THE LONDON BOROUGH’S PENSION FUNDS A COMMON INVESTMENT FUND AND FAST.
GIVE THE LONDON BOROUGH’S PENSION FUNDS A COMMON INVESTMENT FUND AND FAST. Continue reading
Which half of me is a woman?
Henceforward I will deem myself unisex in all things. How delightful to have become if not the fairer, at least as fair a sex!
Hotel stupid
The Hotel itself is clearly designed by bar-code or the information of people’s behjaviour that gan be gleaned from your Tesco card. Continue reading
Posted in customer service
Tagged corporate risk, Crowne Plaza, customer service, Economics, England, Germany, Holiday Inn, Hotel, London, Manchester, Salford Quays, Sony, Tesco
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The Pension Play Pen
The Play Pen is a linkedin group with 800 members (as at January 2011). We opened the group in December 2009 and it’s managed by myself ,Kim Gubler and a number of sub-group managers. Continue reading
Posted in pension playpen, poetry, Retirement, social media
Tagged Ben Mulroney, cotswolds accomadation, Employment, England, Infant, Leeds, London, Manchester, pension, Pension new, pension playpen, Pensions, Playpen, poetry, Retirement, social media, Society
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Fat cats can’t diet
The chances of getting Fat Cats to diet are zero . But it is a function of capitlaism that market forces will eventually redress the balance. The ultimate market force is consumerism and when consumers of financial services choose not to feed the Fat Cats, then they will slim.
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Posted in pension playpen, pensions
Tagged Aston Martin, Basis point, Business, Financial services, Logica, London, pension, Pension new, pension playpen, pensions, United States
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