The death of a sporting icon has got Mark Lisle, compliance manager at Rowanmoor Pensions, thinking: what impact is increasing longevity having on companies and their pension schemes?
I was saddened to read of the death of the French cyclist and sporting icon Laurent Fignon. Having been a keen follower of the Tour de France (always known in our household as “The Turd of France”, as coined inadvertently by my infant son in the 90s, who misheard perennial commentator Phil Liggett) I knew Fignon as an outspoken, charismatic French sportsman in the mould of a Cantona, or a Jean-Pierre Rives. An intensely private individual, guarding his personal life as cautiously as a Cantona, Fignon will sadly be remembered as much for the Tour he lost (1989) rather than the two he w...
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