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	<title>George Emsden</title>
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		<title>Gathering Time?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Strange how Spring is traditionally the time of new life and renewal, but more than the average number of people seem to have passed on recently. &#8220;Gathering Time&#8221; as a lodge friend&#8217;s relative used to call it. But this out of sync blog is about Cancer, as there have again been more than the average [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.georgeemsden.co.uk/2010/02/gathering-time/</link>
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		<title>Be careful what you wish for</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many of us would like to see into the future, but this may not always be comfortable viewing. The London meeting of MDRT (Million Dollar Round Table) http://www.mdrt.org provided this or an educated guess as good as any. Economically the UK is in a similar situation to the years after WW2 when there was a long period [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.georgeemsden.co.uk/2010/02/be-careful-what-you-wish-for/</link>
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		<title>There&#8217;s gold in them thar hills! *</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the basic laws of investing is apparently that you can’t beat the risk-free rate of return &#8211; without taking some risk. However, sales of structured products in the UK in 2009 rose by a staggering 48%, with investors evidently attracted by the allure of low risk, or even no risk (more of that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.georgeemsden.co.uk/2010/02/theres-gold-in-them-thar-hills/</link>
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		<title>Who needs a dating agency?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Things must be looking up with two healthy business lunches in one week. First is with Butterfield Private Bank http://www.uk.butterfieldgroup.com/ in Gresham Street where the fare is low fat Bento. New business for them and other more traditional private banks, is good. Private bank customers where they are owned by very large banking groups, seem [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.georgeemsden.co.uk/2010/02/who-needs-a-dating-agency/</link>
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		<title>Because it does what it says on the tin&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Who do you believe? When someone says an investment is low risk should we take what is said at face value? Members of the public can, but advisers are expected to check. Putting money on deposit ought to be as safe as any investment &#8211; as long as the bank is still there tomorrow &#8211; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.georgeemsden.co.uk/2010/02/because-it-does-what-it-says-on-the-tin/</link>
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		<title>Under African Skies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Haiti&#8217;s latest tragedy makes many people think that more foreign aid will help in the long term, but Jo Figden&#8217;s report on BBC Radio 4&#8217;s From our own correspondent http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/default.stm makes me doubt this. Her programme dealing with Non-government Organisations (NGOs) in Zambia (formerly Northern Rhodesia) suggests that too much foreign aid is self-serving and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.georgeemsden.co.uk/2010/01/under-african-skies/</link>
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		<title>Fat Angels or too much of a good thing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another year and it is time for my favourite networking group www.3Cscommunity.com meeting this time at UCL Advances, the entrepreneur arm of the huge University College London http://www.ucl.ac.uk/advances/ The Dragons’ Den format allows 3 or 4 presentations in 2 and half hours with time for questions. After this, networking carries on at a pub nearby [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.georgeemsden.co.uk/2010/01/fat-angels-or-too-much-of-a-good-thing/</link>
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		<title>Winkle&#8217;s memoirs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Referrals from professional introducers are always interesting and latest one is basically &#8220;Can you raise some money for my client?&#8221; We meet at Institute of Directors in Pall Mall which is busy as usual and the client tells me his story. A modern languages degree from Oxford and continued study, now allow him to work [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.georgeemsden.co.uk/2010/01/winkles-memoirs/</link>
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		<title>Karl Marx&#8217;s private pension</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Signs that a business is in trouble often show themselves in corporate vanity &#8211; expensive new offices, rising executive expense claims, new departments and rebranding. Personal Accounts, the Government&#8217;s complusory pension scheme http://www.georgeemsden.co.uk/2009/11/do-you-know-what-day-it-is/ has had a £360,000 rebrand to NEST http://www.padeliveryauthority.org.uk/documents/press-release-nest-07-01-2010.pdf as people find the P-word or Pensions, boring. There is even a video for people whose reading attention span [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.georgeemsden.co.uk/2010/01/karl-marxs-private-pension/</link>
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		<title>Granny takes a dive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Exciting end to the year when I am in the studio on Eddie Nestor&#8217;s Drivetime show on BBC Radio London 94.9 FM to talk about pensions. Most talk is about drug smuggler Akmal Shaikh&#8217;s execution in China so my contribution is reduced, but for an enlightening counter to the &#8220;how awful!&#8221; chorus, see   http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1239051/LEO-McKINSTRY-Sorry-join-liberal-wailing-heroin-traffickers-deserve-die.html
If you&#8217;re surprised by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.georgeemsden.co.uk/2010/01/granny-takes-a-dive/</link>
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