Tag Archives: Society
Top bum ,sedition and Gadaffi the penguin
“What” , you might be asking, ” is going on here?”. Continue reading
Posted in Facebook, poetry, social media, twitter
Tagged BBC, croydon, Cyberbury, Facebook, Gaddafi, International Criminal Court, Libya, London riots, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Muammar al-Gaddafi, music, NATO, poetry, Politics, Rage against the Machine, Sex Pistols, social media, Society, Tripoli, twitter
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When we make company pensions compulsory..
My point is that the pensions industry has a once off opportunity to get it right, this is our London Olympics and while we need to have our heads down making sure the infrastructure to make this work is in place, we should take a little time out to celebrate the fact that this “new day” is but a year away (M &S will be auto-enroling this time next year).
Posted in annuity, corporate governance, dc pensions, mallowstreet, NEST, pension playpen, Retirement
Tagged annuity, corporate governance, dc pensions, Defined benefit pension plan, Employment, Financial services, Government, mallowstreet, National Employment Savings Trust, NEST, pension, pension playpen, Pension Pound, regulation, Retirement, Society, The PEnsion Regulator, Trade union
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There are better ways to de-risk than ETVs
The only pension schemes which you cannot transfer out of are the Basic State Pension, State Second Pension and NEST (yes – odd that a DC plan is in that mix). Continue reading
Posted in corporate governance, customer service, dc pensions, de-risking, EU Solvency II, Liability Driven Investment, NEST, Retirement
Tagged bribery act, Cash, Compensation & Benefits, corporate governance, corporate risk, customer service, Daily Mail, dc pensions, de-risking, Defined benefit pension plan, Defined contribution plan, EU Solvency II, Human Resources, KPMG, Liability Driven Investment, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, NEST, pension, Pension new, Pensions, Politics, Retirement, Society, State Second Pension, Stock market
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Who is Christopher Robin?
The act of reading these stories and poems is to step into Christopher Robin’s shoes and embrace a vlue system that has driven the governing class of Britian for two hundred years. You should try it sometime- it really is scary!
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What to do with pension trustees
The skills, the committment and the experience of trustees is undoubted. They are a resource that is given for free for the good of all. IF David Cameron’s Big Society is expressed anywhere it is in the noble behaviour of these people, whether CEOs, shop stewards or ordinary members. Continue reading
Posted in annuity, dc pensions, Retirement
Tagged annuity, Compensation & Benefits, David Cameron, dc pensions, Defined benefit pension plan, Employee benefit, Employment, Financial services, henley, Human Resources, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, Pension new, Politics, Retirement, sharesave, Society, trustee, Trustees
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Pooh Eeyore and Owl retire
“it’s not that bad – we’re only in a children’s story and there are lots of people who have made our mistakes who live in the real world beyond the edge of the Hundred Acre Wood.”
Posted in corporate governance, dc pensions, pension playpen, pensions, Retirement
Tagged A. A. Milne, Christopher Robin, corporate governance, dc pensions, Economics, Eeyore, Hundred Acre Wood, Investment, Owl, pension playpen, Pensions, pensions, Retirement, Retirement planning, Society, Tigger, Winnie-the-Pooh
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Be aware – IFAs at work!
In order for employers to get value from their employee benefit plans they had better be absolutely sure that they are delivered by advisers that need carry no wealth warning!
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Posted in corporate governance, dc pensions, de-risking, Retail Distribution Review, Retirement
Tagged Business, corporate governance, corporate risk, dc pensions, de-risking, Employment, finance, Financial adviser, Financial plan, Financial services, Financial Services Authority, Human Resources, Independent Financial Adviser, Insurance, Marketing, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, Pension new, Pensions, Public Sector Pensions, Rage against the Machine, Retail Distribution Review, Retirement, Society, Trail commission
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Mittens- that wd stop em lootin
“More than 90,000 people have signed an online petition calling for anyone convicted of taking part in the riots to lose benefits they get” Thomas Hardy wrote a book of poems entitled “life’s little ironies”. He’d have seen the humour in … Continue reading
Posted in Facebook, Nick Clegg, poetry, social media, twitter
Tagged Blackberry Messenger, Clapham, Facebook, Fatherhood, linked in, London riots, Looting, Monday Night Football, Nick Clegg, Pirates of Penzance, poetry, Politics, Rage against the Machine, social media, Society, Thomas Hardy, twitter
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“I just want to show the rich I can do what I want”
If that girl in Croydon and the thousands of disaffected rioters have done anything positive for me – they’ve got me thinking just how big the gap between me and them is. Perhaps I don’t feel quite as comfortable as I did a week ago.
Posted in Nick Clegg, social media
Tagged Bob Dylan, Bridge, Crime, Croydon, croydon, England, Hoodie, London, London riots, Looting, Monday Night Football, Nick Clegg, Politics, Riot, social media, Society, Teresa May, twitter
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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.