| William (Bill) Mitchell (Brief biography as of 2005)
So, in 1989 there I was living in Bournemouth and working for Abbey Life Assurance Company thinking that everything was wonderful. However, our new owners (Lloyds Bank) thought otherwise and in a major management downsizing programme declared me and 89 others redundant at the end of 1991.
In September 1992, I started a daily commute to Basingstoke College of Technology where I lectured in Insurance Subjects in Further Education and in Quantitative Methods for Higher Education Students franchised from the University of Portsmouth .
During this period I qualified as an Associate of the Institute of Actuaries and as extreme good fortune would have it, by mid 1996 my old company was absolutely desperate to recruit actuaries capable of doing the very hard sums necessary to calculate the compensation due to investors who had been ‘miss-sold' Personal Pensions between 1988 and 1994.
Yes, you've guessed it! – I took a great delight for the ensuing 7 years in presenting Lloyds Bank with a monthly bill as a consultant for about twice the amount they would have to have paid me if they had not got rid of me in 1991.
Since retirement?? – You might think it is rather sad, but I had an ambition to go to Buenos Aires and dance the tango. My wife and I went there in November 2003 and ‘ fue muy fantastica! '- hence the photograph. (I'm the one on the right)
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