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Trial by twitter’s fine by me!
An IFA withdraws its transfer service complaining it’s the victim of “trial by twitter”. Accountability is something that falls hard on adviser’s shoulders. Because we are in the business of longer term investment, the outcomes of our advice will typically … Continue reading
Posted in pensions, twitter
Tagged Aegon, FCA, NOW Pensions, pensions, Port Talbot, social media, twitter, YouTube
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“A bit of a balls up- to be frank!”
If you turn left out of the back of the Treasury and walk down to Caxton Street you’ll find the offices of the DWP. If you turn right out of Caxton Street, you’ll come to the Treasury, it’s a five minute … Continue reading
Posted in pensions, Popcorn Pensions, Ros Altmann, social media
Tagged Business, Caxton House, communication, DWP, FCA, Google, HM Treasury, pensions, social media, Street Maps, Treasury, YouTube
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Boom Bust Boom
I went to the Imax this week (great cinema) to see Boom Bust Boom. I was a guest of Cardano, the Dutch fiduciary manager and I had a good time. One thing I’ve learned about the meeja, is that if … Continue reading
Posted in pensions
Tagged Banking, Bill and Ben, Boom Bust Boom, Business, Business and Economy, cardano, corporate governance, corporate risk, dc pensions, de-risking, Employment, Financial services, Laurie Santos, Michael Johnson, Monty Python, pension playpen, Retirement, Risk Management, Terry Jones, Theo Kocken, YouTube
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I’ve just been (pension) geeked!
Yesterday, as you probably weren’t aware, was national pension awareness day. I tried to tell you in my Pension Play Pen weekly announcement but did you engage? I thought not September 15th was decreed so by the Pension Geeks among whom … Continue reading
Posted in club pension, pensions
Tagged Business, Employment, Jonathan Bland, pension, Pension Geeks, Pension new, pension playpen, People's Pension, Ralph Turner, YouTube
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The trusted word
This is the model for what we are doing with Pension PlayPen, an attempt to harness the energy and credibility of a linked in group, the probity of an actuarial practice and the needs of advisers, employers and regulators to see through a great endeavour, the wholesale adoption of funded workplace pensions into our business culture.
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Posted in actuaries, advice gap, Consolation, First Actuarial, Linkedin, mallowstreet, poetry, Retirement, welfare, workplace pensions
Tagged Business, Financial services, Government, Linked in, pensions, social media, twitter, YouTube
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If it’s worth having- let’s have it now!
News travels fast on the web but the news that it’s taken the BBC 5 years to work out that a lot of the technology they’d blown £100m on is available today for free, clearly travelled slowly. If a technology … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, auto-enrolment, pensions, Popcorn Pensions
Tagged BBC, Digital electronics, Digital media, IPhone, Liquid crystal display, Regent Street, Salford Quays, YouTube
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Digital accountability – a terrible beauty is born
An interesting comment from my mother “Jimmy Savile would not have got away with it today.” This from an 80 year old who observes the digital age with detached amusement but understands that the behaviour of a celebrity is now governed … Continue reading
Posted in social media
Tagged BBC, Chris Kirkland, Facebook, Hillsborough disaster, Jimmy Savile, Salford Quays, Sheffield Wednesday F.C., YouTube
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Troy Shandell – sic transit gloria mundi
Shortly after 11am on 11th November 1961, I arrived into the world. I hadn’t done much for the Minute’s Silence and I haven’t done much for peace and quiet since. The week that I was born saw the Marvelettes “Please Mr … Continue reading
Posted in joy division, poetry, Troy shandell
Tagged Big Bad John, Google Images, Hit the Road Jack, Jimmy Dean, Lou Reed, Ray Charles, Runaround Sue, Troy Shondell, YouTube
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Kids stuff – what HR and Pension people can learn from Generation C
We will be competing for their interest with a whole bunch of others trying to get some space on their cloud. Continue reading
Posted in dc pensions, de-risking, pension playpen, pensions, Retirement
Tagged Booz & Company, Cyberbury, dc pensions, de-risking, Digital native, Economics, Employment, Facebook, Gospel of Matthew, Human Resources, Instant messaging, IPhone, James Brown, pension, Pension new, pension playpen, pensions, Retirement, San Francisco, twitter, Workforce, YouTube
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