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Few of us would start from here if we had the choice. The starting point for any project is seldom popular but it is where you are and you have no choice. That is how it was in 1971; having just joined the Financial Services industry from a career in engineering it seemed that I could know little, compared to others.
Organisations like the Consumers? Association particularly and, of course, Government Departments responsible for far-reaching legislation surely had access to the educational qualifications and experience to draw upon that made their pronouncements correct?
Yet something seemed strangely uncomfortable with what I was reading and what I knew from my studies and my then two years experience.
By 1974 I had written my first book with a view to informing the uninformed about a specific topic, Life Assurance. Those who had a public stage were misdirecting the cast.
Life is a theatre; and most people perform to their script each day, either by habit or in line withgovernment some defined discipline, like going to school or work.
So it is that I have used the theatre or rather televised theatre by way of an analogy to take you through technical issues in a light-hearted and hopefully instructive way. We are what we experience and our opinions and, therefore, our thoughts and our deeds come from that very essence of our lives models. Whether the life model centres on Dan Dare or the Goons or Jonathan Creek; love them or hate them, they create

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