Monthly Archives: June 2009
AP leadership: if you are to win the merger, you must win fairly, without resorting to spin and bias
Update 1 Jul 2009 1353: have come up with a proposed response, currently consulting with various members about it. If you want to share your views (about the way forward in the remaining 3 weeks before the merger vote) and … Continue reading
More about the FCAP name problem
Supporters of the merger have been defending the name on the grounds that they themselves don’t mention their initials when talking to clients and friends. However, the problem will be that we will not be able to stop others (in … Continue reading
My statement of no confidence in the senior leadership: full details
Update 03 Jul 2009: a copy of my further response of today’s date on the AP merger forum has been added below. Given that my original statement received a threat from the AP merger forum moderator that it would be … Continue reading
Why the phrase “notwithstanding any prior resolutions”? AP leadership needs to tell members asap
The Notice of the 23 July 2009 Faculty SGM to vote on the merger states (the red emphasis in bold is mine): Resolution Proposal to form the Chartered Actuarial Profession That, conditional upon the confirmation by the voting members of … Continue reading
Email from Ronnie Sloan FFA to Faculty members
Ronnie Sloan has sent the following email earlier this afternoon to a number of Faculty members – it is reproduced here because it will be of interest both to Faculty members who weren’t on Ronnie’s email list and to Institute … Continue reading
Why the passion against the merger?
I was at the SIAS debate last night and the winner of the champagne bottle (awarded to the best speech made by a student or a Fellow who qualified within the last 5 years), as well as asking for more … Continue reading
FIDELIS disputes accuracy of Faculty President’s letter to The Herald
On 17 June 2009 Fidelis issued a press release highlighting absence of “fair play” in the merger process, which has led to articles appearing in several newspapers, including this one in the Herald. On 22 June, the Faculty President wrote … Continue reading
The AP don’t seem to want Faculty members at the SGM on 29 June – please do attend!
Evidence is mounting that the AP leadership/Faculty Council want to try and minimise attendance of Faculty members at next Monday’s requisitioned Special General Meeting on 29 June, called to raise serious concerns about the merger proposals and process. First there … Continue reading
My comments on AP response to the question as to whether different documents issued to Faculty/Institute
With regard to the posts so far on the AP merger forum about this issue (see here), the Chief Executive suggests that my question and comments might be diversionary tactics. The reality is that I am simply acting as I … Continue reading
AP response to the question as to whether merger documents for Faculty/Institute were different…
I promised (in this post) to put up the AP’s response to the urgent question that I posed to them on 12 June 2009 after the online voting materials were made available, and it became clear that different files for … Continue reading
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