Well, there’s a thing. All sorts of arguments you could have around the stats of course, female...
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“More CEOs named Andrew and Simon than female leaders in FTSE 100”
The number of female advisers at PJFS is stratospherically greater and the proportion of female...
What’s in a name?
https://youtu.be/3ls6UEUVNOU One of our trade papers this week asked a selection of advisers how...
Travel agent? Financial Adviser? DIY?
I had a lovely few nights in Barcelona, thank you. And, yes, I could have arranged...
“Time to break the bias in financial advice”
The ‘bias’ in question is ‘gender imbalance’ and much discussed in our trade press this week, not...
Making a difference?
Ex-MP Rory Stewart was talking about why he came into and left politics. He travelled in...
Happy Days are here again?
Was listening to an interview with now-celebrated director, Ron Howard, formally star of both...
“The Nanny State Made Me — a timely defence of big government”
The ’70s were for my coming-of-age time, as they were for Stuart Maconie, author of ‘The Nanny...
Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes
One of my lockdown projects is to listen to all of my vinyl (in alphabetical order of course)....
Nostalgia?
This little church in Widford stands on its own in the middle of a field. It was once part of what...
‘How to be an ethical Black Friday shopper’
Ethical shopping is now a thing. It’s not just making sure that no rainforests were destroyed to...
“Still the only woman at the conference? How to break up the club”
A factor in my choice of university was the gender balance or, in ’70s-speak, the percentage of...
“Apollo 11’s 50th anniversary”
Around the time of the moon landing, I had a great birthday present, a reel-to-reel tape recorder....
First Man
Just seen the brilliant ‘First Man’, about Neil Armstrong and the moon landing, 50 years ago this...
“Nation’s favourite individual advisers named”
If you saw the fixed grins of those in the audience who didn’t win Oscars last weekend, you’ll get...