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henry tapper
The pension Martin Lewis?
51 years old , twice married, one son. Cambridge Graduate , Icelandic fisherman, failed management consultant. Rugby player, oarsman and double bassist.
Tries most things once- usually badly
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- Brilliant pension report from Raconteur
- Brilliant pensions website
- Bryanston School Alumni
- Chateau d'Oigny
- Guido Fawkes' political blog
- Inspirational blog from 21C actuary
- my linked in site
- Oliver Tapper's blog
- Pension Playpen
- Reasonable Force- should pensions be compulsory
- The Pension Play Pen
- Yeovil Town FC
boat builder
Chateaux in Piedmont
EU Solvency II
Yeovil Town
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the pension plowman
- RT @PJZoulias: @henryhtapper does she have that written on her forehead?thanks 2 hours ago
- Sitting next to someone who manages £20bn of assets. No one has spoken to her all lunch! #pensionsthanks 3 hours ago
- “@paullewismoney: offering me an Annunity - presumably a regular income for retired abbesses!” Was that the #pensions monk? @PensionsMonkeythanks 3 hours ago
- Gardens on steroids at Chelsea Flower show. What r they on? Steroids! http://t.co/Zn908IpbAIthanks 5 hours ago
- So faux says Stella at Chelsea Flower Show http://t.co/nucIMLYTQlthanks 5 hours ago
- The Pension Plowman Daily is out! paper.li/henryhtapperthanks 6 hours ago
- The true and fair way to "cost" your investments wp.me/ppXQz-2Nz via @henryhtapperthanks 6 hours ago
- RT @IFASuccess: The IFA Success Business Times is out! paper.li/IFASuccess/130… ▸ Top stories today via @henryhtapper @wishartwealththanks 6 hours ago
- The true and fair way to "cost" your investments wp.me/ppXQz-2Nz #pensionsthanks 10 hours ago
- Replacing the financial salesman in the workplace. wp.me/ppXQz-2Ma #pensionsthanks 10 hours ago
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- A democratic way to improve DC investment.
- The true and fair way to "cost" your investments
- Commission - an unwanted risk.
- "Fit lean pension machines" - an uncomfortable prospect?
- The Regulator's brilliant auto-enrolment website.
- Replacing the financial salesman in the workplace.
- Morrison's "Save our Dough" campaign.
- A great day for Yeovil Town Football Club
- Who speaks for workplace pensions?
- Buzzword Bingo- (great post from Phil Baumann)
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- Brilliant pension report from Raconteur
- Brilliant pensions website
- Bryanston School Alumni
- Chateau d'Oigny
- Guido Fawkes' political blog
- Inspirational blog from 21C actuary
- my linked in site
- Oliver Tapper's blog
- Pension Playpen
- Reasonable Force- should pensions be compulsory
- The Pension Play Pen
- Yeovil Town FC
NAPF Presentation on “at retirment options”
DB de-risking presntation (ppt)
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Monthly Archives: July 2010
Pensioner poverty- higher taxes or auto-enrolment?
We are chosing to put clever pension ideas in front of boring but sane collective provision as Beveridge originally conceived.
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Posted in NEST
Tagged auto-enrolment.DWP.Paul Johnson, NEST, pensions, retirment, Steve Webb
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Wacky races, corporate governance and Mr Hayward’s boat.
“Brand”,opined my former CEO, “is what we aspire to be, or at least to be seen as being”. I guess this is the actuarial equivalent of “corporate identity” which is the accounting version and refers to what you actually are. Continue reading
The German Grand Prix and fixed results
I have no doubt that Ferrari will have to bow to the pressure of the spectators who demand “racing” not team orders. Senior Executives who forget their wider stakeholders would do well to learn that the media by which their decisions are judged is now truly “social”. Continue reading
Posted in social media
Tagged Blake, Blog, BP, Dylan, Ferrari, FIA, Ian Hislop, Private Eye, social media
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Insurers at war
You’d have thought that the “last men standing”, the insurers – Zurich, Friends,Scottish Widows and Standard Life and the asset managers Blackrock, HSBC and Fidelity (themselves trading as insurers) would now concentrate on the serious business of filling the gap left by the collapse in DB accrual. However they have bigger ideas.
Gavin Henson – a proper father
Gavin Henson has a reputation for being vain and consequently superficial. He may be vain but he is not superficial.
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Tagged Charlotte Church, Fatherhood, Gavin Henson, rugby, Wales
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Neurosis on the web..
Ultimately, social media is just a more effecient means of conversing , something we cannot avoid and something that we have to experience through trial and error It cannot be taught-it can only be learned Continue reading
Social Media – Means the World to Me (via Social [Media] Butterflies)
I think the quote from Rupert Murdoch most telling. In the weeks ahead you can expect to see organisations such as the FT launching social media websites in an attempt to catch up with a revolution in communication. I suspect … Continue reading
Long Hot Summer
It’s time for level heads Continue reading
Tagged 1978, Politics, recession, recovery, summer of lover, The Clash, TRB
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Predicting winners
I have given up getting angry at occasional racegoers who pick a string of winners based on the colour of jockey’s silks, name of horse etc… Continue reading
Tagged alpha, Argentina, Brazil, fund management, Paraguay, stochastic, Uraguay, World Cup, World Cup 2010
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