Mark Lisle, compliance manager at Rowanmoor Pensions, on cutting through financial services jargon
It is rare that the family sits down and watches a movie together (even rarer that such offering is in French, with subtitles for the hard of Gallic), but we greatly enjoyed a film called Micmacs at the weekend. A surreal piece from the director of the better-known Amelie, the film is an entertaining study of the little man exacting revenge on the system. One of the characters, Remington, speaks only in idioms. Accused, as we are in financial services, of being the ultimate purveyors of jargon, this struck a chord with me. Charged with ensuring our communications are fair, clear an...
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