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Should’ve gone to mallowstreet.

Well you should’ve, 18th May 2011. Red letter day for conferences. In one day; The pension minister opens up on equal pensions for women, NEST, AE, short service refunds and adequacy.  James Cameron delivers a keynote address on climate change … Continue reading

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Welcome to my (Facebook) world

The time has come to reorganise the pensions message so it can fit on the screen of a mobile phone and is worthy of sitting in Facebook in boxes and on Facebook walls.
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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

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When should I monetize my child?

What guidance can my readership give me (other than getting him to pay his own phone bills )
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“No one uses e-mail anymore”

“who checks their email any more. All i do is get on facebook which to me is pretty much the same thing except without the spam” Continue reading

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Prolebrity

As I write, today is the last day of Big Brother and the day before Pastor Terry Jones decides whether to burn Korans. The radio hums with disapprobation. “Celebrity should be earned not given” “How can this man’s disgusting views get world wide … Continue reading

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Is DB Bankrupt?

Sept 2nd -St Stephens Club- Nick Spencer, GAM’s supremo makes startling assertion “DB is bankrupt” no investment strategy can return the typical DB plan to solvency. Sept 6th- Pension Playpen Lunch in Cornhill- 14 pension professionals sit down to discuss the issue over a pint … Continue reading

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In place of strife

As we contemplate the impact of industrial strife as the structural changes to pensions (and elsewhere) are rolled out, we need to be looking to the solutions that have worked. Perhaps this is one of them.
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Verbal “straight through processing” -please think before pressing “reply all”

We (and I include myself as an offendor) could do with a little more engagement and a little less STP! Continue reading

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Living it up-social media style

I’ve got five tasks today. I’m going to share them on this blog to show how social media helps me work rest and play! Continue reading

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