Published articles

A selection of my favourite articles from more than 80 written over a number of years and for a variety of journals.

Regulation

• Is it Time to Break Windows?, Financial Times
• Why the Regulators Must Stay, Financial Times
• The Competition and Policy Implications of Regulatory Depreciation and the Asset Base,
  with David Currie and Martin Siner, London Business School Regulation Initiative Discussion Paper 25

Communication

• Art of Persuasion, The Lawyer
• Better Business Writing, The Adviser’s Edge
• Afterthought to Artform, The Actuary

See also Notes on Reporting Actuarial Information on this website.

Legal

• Registering the Experts, New Law Journal
• What’s Your Problem?, The Actuary
• Patent Infringement Damages: How Are They Calculated?, with William Letwin, Managing Intellectual Property

Miscellaneous

• The Agenda, conceived, edited and co-wrote
• The Section 40 Deabte Shows Just How Much Our Press Needs a Proper Regulator, Inforrm
• With This Loan, I Thee Wed, Financial Times

Pensions

• Being Actuarial with the Truth, a paper presented to the Staple Inn Actuarial Society
• Hands Up If You Don’t Know What a Pension Is, The Actuary
• Brown’s Other Windfall Tax, Financial Times

Commentary on topical matters

This website includes my Blog on matters of the day that attract my attention. Popular articles include:

• You mean we’re NOT supposed to avoid tax?
• It’s lawyers v politicians in the battle for human rights
• Neil and Adel: A love that cannot speak the name