Mike Alfred

Mike Alfred is a South African poet, journalist, and historian who lives in Muizenberg, Cape Town. His poems have been widely published in anthologies and literary journals. He has produced six collections of poetry and three books and many articles and papers about the city and people of Johannesburg. Quotes Well, it was really a lightning bolt moment. My brother and I were sitting at the Marriott, over here on La Jolla Village Drive here in San Diego, having a few cocktails, and one night we said, “Why isn’t there a Morning Star rating for 401K plans? How is it that there can be $4 trillion invested in this marketplace, and yet nobody knows what’s good and what’s bad?” When my running is going really well, the company is usually doing really well because I'm able to find the time to think about problems in a different way." And so, it really started there. We said we could create that. Being young entrepreneurs like we are, we thought there’s got to be something else behind that. So, let’s start there. So, my brother did a great job bringing in professors to help sort of build the algorithms around the rating. And we’ve shown that a good rating that is actually usable by the public and with all of the attention that gets, you can build software for a number of people within that ecosystem. External links Category:Living people Category:Poets from South Africa