Johnny shall have a new master
See saw, Marjorie Daw, Johnny shall have a new master, He shall have but a penny a day, Because he can’t work any faster. Speaking recently at an Insurance Society of Edinburgh do at a newly-yellow-pointed-hatty Standard Life House, I had occasion to muse publicly on seesaws and their unique relevance to the UK life […]
Johnny shall have a new master
See saw, Marjorie Daw, Johnny shall have a new master, He shall have but a penny a day, Because he can’t work any faster. Speaking recently at an Insurance Society of Edinburgh do at a newly-yellow-pointed-hatty Standard Life House, I had occasion to muse publicly on seesaws and their unique relevance to the UK life […]
Direct action
If you’ve been watching TV recently, you’ll have spotted that service is everywhere. In our new and shiny Big Society we do love a campaign, so while Hugh, Jamie et al are saving the fish, Mary Portas and Michel Roux Jr are on a mission to improve customer service in the UK. Most of this […]
Direct action
If you’ve been watching TV recently, you’ll have spotted that service is everywhere. In our new and shiny Big Society we do love a campaign, so while Hugh, Jamie et al are saving the fish, Mary Portas and Michel Roux Jr are on a mission to improve customer service in the UK. Most of this […]
Shopping baskets, platform charges and Rolos
Back in the day, when I was learning how to sell endowments and transparency was the stuff of a madman’s dreams, I was coached to describe the charging structure as a ‘shopping basket’ of charges. This masterstroke of metaphor was intended to neatly sweep away the complexity of initial units, allocation rates, policy fees, AMCs, […]
Shopping baskets, platform charges and Rolos
Back in the day, when I was learning how to sell endowments and transparency was the stuff of a madman’s dreams, I was coached to describe the charging structure as a ‘shopping basket’ of charges. This masterstroke of metaphor was intended to neatly sweep away the complexity of initial units, allocation rates, policy fees, AMCs, […]
the lang cat gets published
Forgive the self-puffery, but a bit of a landmark moment for the lang cat. My first feature not as part of the corporate machine was carried in the fine publication we know as Pensions Management in their December issue. It’s a longer version of this post – what’s the right price for a platform? You […]
the lang cat gets published
Forgive the self-puffery, but a bit of a landmark moment for the lang cat. My first feature not as part of the corporate machine was carried in the fine publication we know as Pensions Management in their December issue. It’s a longer version of this post – what’s the right price for a platform? You […]
Why platforms are so complicated
If you listen very closely you can hear the faint gnashing of teeth in various large office buildings round the country. It’s said sometimes that providers are now run by accountants, not actuaries. But actuaries, like certain water-borne infections, are hard to kill and they’re hard wired into the DNA of these large companies. Why […]
Why platforms are so complicated
If you listen very closely you can hear the faint gnashing of teeth in various large office buildings round the country. It’s said sometimes that providers are now run by accountants, not actuaries. But actuaries, like certain water-borne infections, are hard to kill and they’re hard wired into the DNA of these large companies. Why […]
