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The Trustee Guide to Investment

By Andrew Clare and Chris Wagstaff
Published in Hardback 25th November 2011
Priced, £35.00

Written by two renowned and highly experienced industry practitioners, with a mission to advance trustees' investment knowledge and to provide them with the necessary confidence and competence to adopt an advanced level of investment governance for their scheme, The Trustee Guide to Investment is a uniquely and refreshingly objective and practical guide to the ever expanding range of markets, investments, tools and techniques to which pension scheme trustees are increasingly exposed by their fund managers and advisers.

Andrew Clare, Professor of Asset Management at Cass Business School, part of City University London, comments: “In our capacities as trustees and investment committee members, we know that getting to grips with often mystifying investment jargon and terminology is an increasingly difficult challenge for many trustees. In writing The Trustee Guide to Investment, our intention was to address the numerous investment issues intrinsic to the role of a modern day trustee and to demystify them. We also hope that this book will help to foster a lifelong interest for our readers in this fascinating subject.”
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Ancient African stories can help recession-hit businesses

Risk managers can learn valuable lessons from ancient African stories, a leading expert says.
Joachim Adebayo Adenusi, executive director of Inspirational Risk Management Solutions (IRMS), and a former director of the Institute of Risk Management, has used the story of a threatened city in ancient West Africa to parallel the characters' fight for survival with handling the risks involved in running a business.

The story has been made into a film, Risk Edutainment – 'Moremi',, which will be shown at a reception at BAFTA for business leaders on February 23, together with a storytelling session by an Africa...Read More

The Tebbit Test by Icki Iqbal

Icki Iqbal grew up in Pakistan in the fifties. As a right handed batsman and left arm spin bowler he set his sights on being selected for the tour to England in 1962, as a seventeen year-old. His role models were Peter May (batsman) and Tony Lock (bowler). His hero was Imtiaz Ahmed.

Alas, he had to take a reality check when he found that he wasn’t good enough to make his House Second XI at school. He came to England in 1964 six days before Harold Wilson came to power. He played some cricket and watched a lot.

He ended up being a city actuary.

 The Tebbit Test is his story. Why should it interest you?   We...Read More

Gym Classes: Which one is right for me?

The sprinting lasted for what seemed a lifetime and my legs were burning after 30 seconds – then Sergeant Pushy yelled ‘big hill coming!’ I could see no hill and initially thought ‘Pushy’ might be hallucinating, but I followed everyone’s lead and rose up in the saddle to cycle furiously. Ironically the music was Queen’s ‘Don’t Stop Me Now’ – the only thing I wanted to do was stop. This change in pace and introduction of hills carried on all lesson, and I hate to be somewhat graphic but I the amount I was perspiring was unhealthy for a human being.
At the end of the lesson I could have flopped out of the s...Read More

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