Thank you for reading and sharing my blogs in 2013. Below are the three most popular blogs in 2013 as voted by you the readers. Please continue to read, share and provide feedback in 2014 as I continue to write about ways to solve the pensions crisis and develop ideas and concepts to help ensure we can all feel confident and in control of our financial future. I will continue to write the odd blog about my other passions away from pensions with the Catalyst Club (Cancer Research), Commando Spirit, RedStart, rowing and tennis.
WHY I LEFT MERRILL LYNCH TO BECOME AN ENTREPRENEUR?
Seven years ago, today, on Friday 31st March 2006 I resigned from Merrill Lynch. I loved my time atMerrill Lynch; I loved the work, the energy, my colleagues and the challenge of investment banking. In fact, I had only just been promoted to Director in the Insurance & Pensions Solutions Group and I certainly didn’t know there was an inbound “Global Financial Crisis” around the corner. So why resign?
15 REASONS WHY ROWERS MAKE GREAT GRADUATES
Armed, on graduation, with these fifteen traits, what rower can fail? What business could fail when it employs a good number of them? A master of these disciplines is a master of people, of teams and of businesses.
SABC continues to grow, recruit more novice winners, field more boats, win more races, get more bumps, win blades and make progress up the race divisions. Good luck SABC both as rowers and as tomorrow’s graduates.
This is why Redington proudly supports St Anne’s Boat Club.
WHAT IF ALL PEOPLE FEEL CONFIDENT ABOUT THEIR FINANCIAL FUTURE?
Financial Times – 16th May 2106
Redington, the UK’s largest company by market capitalisation and the third largest company in the world, today celebrates its centenary after transforming first the pensions industry and then the fortunes of countless charities, insurance companies, family offices and sovereign wealth funds. But perhaps its biggest contribution to society has been RedStart, a groundbreaking programme that offered free financial education to young people all across the world.