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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
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- RT @harindermann: #FF #followfriday @henryhtapper one of the most comprehensive and upto date bloggers on the UK pensions industry.thanks 21 hours ago
- @theactualpolson Very kind- hope all is well in the land of the pictsthanks 21 hours ago
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- The Pension Plowman Daily is out! paper.li/henryhtapperthanks 1 day ago
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- Replacing the financial salesman in the workplace.
- Who speaks for workplace pensions?
- So what's new in pension reform?
- The "advice gap" can and will be filled
- Come on Yeovil!
- Do consumers benefit from risk-based pricing?
- In the customer's shoes; Dan Norman on our fund fiduciaries.
- Buzzword Bingo- (great post from Phil Baumann)
- Bugger Basingstoke
- How digitization is changing our lives
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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: April 2011
We can negotiate our DC charges (and it does matter!)
Posted in dc pensions, NEST, Retail Distribution Review
Tagged AMC, Bond duration, Company, dc pensions, Defined contribution plan, Employment, Financial services, Insurance, National Employment Savings Trust, Negotiation, NEST, pension, Percentage, Present value, Retail Distribution Review, Retirement, Total Expense Ratio
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Well you’ve got to laugh..Cameron, Fogarty, Mourinho, me..
Posted in ezra pound, Facebook, pension playpen, pensions, twitter
Tagged Angela Eagle, BBC Radio 5 Live, Chief Secretary to the Treasury, David Cameron, Ed Balls, ezra pound, Facebook, Grosvenor House Hotel, History, Humour, Laughter, Nicky Campbell, Pension new, pension playpen, pensions, Prime Minister's Questions, Shelagh Fogarty, Society, twitter
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Blessed by God- a cracking weekend
A couple of things happened this weekend which have touched me, they seem to be connected by football.
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Why your personal pension/FSAVC may be worthless.
The question that the insurers and possibly the law courts need to answer is whether they will compensate their policyholders for mis-buying?
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Posted in customer service, pension playpen
Tagged Business, corporate risk, customer service, Economics, Equitable Life, Equitable Life Assurance Society, Financial services, Insurance, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, Pension new, pension playpen, Pension Poverty, Pensions, Policy, Politics
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Coalition – come clean on your plan for our pension.
My criticism of the Green Paper is that while it is long on philosophising on the impact of longevity, the need for fairness and for personal responsibility, it’s short on idntifying the winners and losers in the process.
Posted in NEST, Nick Clegg, pension playpen, pensions
Tagged Consumer price index, Flat rate, Green paper, Hargreaves Lansdown, Means test, National Employment Savings Trust, National Insurance, NEST, Nick Clegg, Outsourcing, pension, Pension new, pension playpen, Pension Poverty, pensions, Personal pension scheme, State Second Pension
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The Pension Play Pen on good DC outcomes
The Pension Regulator has asked us the question and though the questions asked in a rather woolly way, it’s interesting to see what the Regulator it (him?) self considers the main priorities. Appropriate contribution decisions Appropriate investment decisions Efficient effective … Continue reading



