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The Pension Play Pen
The Play Pen is a linked in 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. It’s a closed...
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24 cheers for The Pension Play Pen Lunch
There’s a fine tradition in this country of people getting together in coffee houses and taverns and sorting out how and with whom business should be transacted. This was how the insurance market was...
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What price certainty?
The cost of certainty changes in proportion to the amount of certainty. The more flexible your guarantee, the more it’s going to cost you. I can buy a ticket to Leeds...
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“I cannot advise you on that Sir”
Here is a salutary tale for our times. Not a tragic tale – no disaster resulted – but a sad tale that demonstrates what happens when staff become scared to help customers. Anyone who has travelled on...
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Diversification and speculation are different.
I have mentioned TOBAM on this blog before, but as @firstactuarial had the good sense to invite its CEO Yves Choueifaty to their conference yesterday and he and his assistant Lauren were kind enough...
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Footie chants – malicious or otherwise
Yesterday’s calls for homophobic chants to be banned are nothing new. This report about chants at Brighton is two years old but the taunts go back as far as the Withdean stadium, thankfully a place I...
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Tomorrow’s heroes; these are the folk who will solve the AE Capacity crunch
We’ve been doing some planning at Pension PlayPen towers . Most of our thinking is concentrated on this graph. We predict the capacity crunch at April 2015 which is the point when demand for...
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Other people’s money- other people’s lives.
Darren I received this blog/testimony from Darren Jefferson, who many will know for his work in setting up auto-enrolment schemes over the past five years. The title’s my own, the words are his....
View ArticleManaging and measuring DB schemes (Keating, Tilba and Clacher)
With the intention of keeping the Pension Regulator focused, Keating and Clacher have recruited Dr Anna Tilba of Durham University to their ranks. A powerful triumvirate of pension intellectuals whose...
View ArticleEnthusiasm can get you there – LGPS at LGC Leeds
I was sitting at a reception at the end of a packed day of debate that included a dance class and intense discussion. Into the room walked Tom McPhail – looking bemused. Within minutes he was...
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