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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
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Chateaux in Piedmont
EU Solvency II
Yeovil Town
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- @RayVay the latter I guess. Though I don't see where the 1.2 m employers will get old Sokol advice!thanks 6 minutes ago
- @ytfcbadger Let's hope we'll be defflating more than tyres this afternoon Martin! #ytfc #Brentfordletdownthanks 2 hours ago
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- RT @ytfcbadger: @henryhtapper I do hope you've been going around your neighbourhood this morning letting down all the tyres on all the cars…thanks 2 hours ago
- Yeovil's Jedward primed for League One Play-off final bbc.co.uk/sport/0/footba… #ytfcthanks 2 hours ago
- @paulbrenton1983 article now changed! thanks for the correction -safe trip up #ytfc #singforstannothanks 2 hours ago
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- From Brentford Town to Wembley, we'll keep the green flag flying high #ytfc #Brentforfglover http://t.co/yKjIRSVyZHthanks 4 hours ago
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- Replacing the financial salesman in the workplace.
- Come on Yeovil!
- The Regulator's brilliant auto-enrolment website.
- A momentous day for restoring confidence in UK pensions
- How digitization is changing our lives
- What have the Australians done for us - not much!
- The loveliest coastline in the world
- Who speaks for workplace pensions?
- Football - Yeovil Town FC
- Get up! Stand up! For your pension rights!
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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: September 2010
Requiem for David Milliband
And what can I tell you, My brother my killer What can I possibly say I guess that I miss you I guess I forgive you I’m glad you stood in my way … Leonard Cohen- Famous Blue Raincoat
Pension Comms- let’s get real
We need to get smart about how to talk to members and that goes as much for insurers as trustees. We need to get HR databases talking to pension databases and get members supplying the supra-communicators- the private mobile numbers, the private mailing addresses that allow pensions information to be delivered independently of work and consistently over time.
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Keeping pension scheme members engaged
I hope that in future debates, we will concentrate as much on holding the attention of employees as getting it. Continue reading
Moroccan Dining Experience in Eton High Street
Pleeeeeease! I like Moroccan food, I like Eton High Street but when it comes to “dining experiences” I’d prefer mine authentic. Whatever marketing guru decided to close the New College public house and re-open it as the kind of nonsense that’s embedded … Continue reading
Paying for a Citizen’s Pension
When we have digested auto-enrolment and introduced NEST then we can look again at the Citizen’s Pension. Continue reading
A democratic Duty of Care
My confidence that a just and equitable setltlement will be reached is based on my unwavering belief in the value of British Society to deliver a fair solution. Continue reading
Interested in pensions? – I don’t think so
The truth is that the pensions industry is so up its own about communication and the value of saving for retirement that iti s in denial and until it wakes up to to some hard truths- it will continue to seem as foolish to the general population as it does today.
Bish bash and off to the pub -DC fund governance
I can only assume that one day investment consultants will wake up to these realities but that will be the day that they start to think as DC experts and not as DB consultants looking for something to do. Continue reading
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A place big-bang forgot; the City University Club
The City University Club fails by any modern standard to cut the mustard- but I love it.
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Ivory towers
I make no apology for speaking from an ivory tower- well at least a glass one on the banks of the Thames in Brentford. Several friends went to the Union Conference last week and reported back the frustration of delegates struggling … Continue reading



