Professional Pensions (August 20)
“If we want our savers to make informed choices, we need to get them to understand the products and devices we’re using to help them save for when they aren’t working any more. That’s because they are going to have to make decisions (even if we created a limited choice framework), so we need to start using clear language now and getting used to it.” We must jettison the jargon. Those in the pensions world should no longer “languish in the luxury of our familiar phraseology understood only by cosy insiders.” It is time “to get into” their “hearts and minds and use the language of our saving community who need to know at all times what we’re talking about.”
Tags: Clear language, Decisions, Devices, Familiar, Hearts, Informed choices, Insiders, Jargon, Jettison, Minds, Pensions, Phraseology, Products, Save, Savers
San Francisco Chronicle (January 25)
“The start of the new year brought a familiar wave of distress for many Bay Area parents: Omicron infections were accelerating; preschools and child care centers were shutting their doors; adults saw their work regimens upended, their children cloistered and irritable.” But there is now a new worry. It’s hitting children harder. “The pervasive threat of omicron to children too young to be vaccinated has added a layer of anguish.”
Tags: Accelerating, Adults, Anguish, Children, Distress, Familiar, Infections, Omicron, Parents, Preschools, Threat, Upended, Vaccinated, Wave, Work
Wall Street Journal (May 17)
“It’s déjà vu all over again in the Middle East as another round of Israeli-Palestinian combat follows a tragic and familiar path: another spasm of violence, another media firestorm over civilian casualties, another wave of demonstrations around the world, another diplomatic kerfuffle as would-be mediators jostle, and another donnybrook in American politics over how Washington should respond.”
Tags: Casualties, Combat, Déjà vu, Familiar, Firestorm, Israel, Media, Mediators, Middle East, Palestine, Spasm, Tragic, Violence
