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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
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the pension plowman
- RT @ProfCaryCooper: Hadn't realised that with 40 months of decline in real wages this is the longest period of such decline since 1870! htt…thanks 7 hours ago
- RT @blackbullion: Was great to spend the day with @NAPFnews SE and the ubiquitous @henryhtapper at the gorgeous Leeds castle #moneysmarterthanks 8 hours ago
- The Pension Plowman Daily is out! paper.li/henryhtapper ▸ Top stories today via @pensionsweek @atheistactuary @henryhtapperthanks 15 hours ago
- RT @SReeder01: @AdviserLounge @rosaltmann @henryhtapper @PensionsGuru @PensionsMonkey Heres another idea "Facebook Welfare" http://t.co/WNU…thanks 15 hours ago
- @Totalrhubarb Read it earlier. Good article.thanks 19 hours ago
- "@Totalrhubarb: Are you getting a fair fx? Fix it or let them fix it against you. Great wire article wire.russell.com/2013/06/18/fix…" #pensionsthanks 19 hours ago
- We're on the road (to somewhere) lnkd.in/B9jx4Ythanks 20 hours ago
- We're on the road (to somewhere) wp.me/ppXQz-2Rbthanks 20 hours ago
- RT @PensionsGuru: @henryhtapper Well thank you Henry. I thought it was pretty cute when I penned it...thanks 1 day ago
- @PensionsGuru Deffo better than J Bitumenthanks 1 day ago
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- If I were Steve Webb..
- Will no one rid me of this troublesome press? Mr Godfrey defends "Corporate Access".
- Shows what the little man can do
- In a muddle about investment management fees
- Pensions personality - the oxymoron is back!
- Diversification and speculation are different.
- Not what's in the pot but what it buys - Pension RTI
- A message to 1.2m employers who aren't reading (yet)!
- All you never wanted to know about that Pension PlayPen GPP
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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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Author Archives: henry tapper
We’re on the road (to somewhere)
We are off to http://www.pensionplaypen.com and you’ll be finding yourself reading future pension blogs from there not here Continue reading
Posted in auto-enrolment, brand, Henry Tapper blog, pension playpen, pensions
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If I were Steve Webb..
tomorrow I must pretend to be Steve Webb and speak to an NAPF group as if I were him Continue reading
Posted in auto-enrolment, pensions, steve webb
Tagged Andy Seed, Britain, Employment, Financial services, NAPF, pension, Steve, Steve Webb, Tower Hill
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“My word is my Eurobond” – pensions without banks
We have become so obsessed with the paradigm created by Megabank that we consider a “limited level of positive return..guaranteed” something to aspire to. Continue reading
“We don’t know what we’re doing”!
To the average fan it is not the fans or player or clubs that bring the game into disrepute it is the referee – hence the chants the politest of which is “you don’t know what you’re doing”. But it’s never that simple. What … Continue reading
Posted in actuaries, advice gap, auto-enrolment
Tagged Funds, Government, Gregg McClymont, Morningstar, Office of Fair Trading, OFT, pension, Steve Webb
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My mother is a donut
My mother is someone who I have admiration for. This afternoon we went to walk Rosa the dog ; but when we got out of the car she discovered she was in her house slippers. Rather than abort the … Continue reading
Posted in doctors
Tagged Baking, Berwick St John, Doughnut, Dunkin Donuts, Mother's Day, National Doughnut Day, Salisbury, Walking
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A message to 1.2m employers who aren’t reading (yet)!
We are in danger of letting the cost of auto-enrolment exceed its value Continue reading
Posted in auto-enrolment, customer service, pensions
Tagged Aegon, DWP, Leslie Williams, Lloyds Banking Group, Martin Lewis, pension, Standard Life, Steve Webb
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All you never wanted to know about that Pension PlayPen GPP
What are you on about now? http://www.pensionplaypen.com is a website set up to help Britain’s 1.2m employers work out auto-enrolment, adapt their existing workplace pension or get a new one and manage “auto-enrolment for life not just for staging”. As it’s the … Continue reading
Waiting for Dunkirk ; The Pensions and Benefits show #pb13.
We’ve seen the early skirmishes which have been won by large employers throwing money at the problem but our Dunkirk has yet to come Continue reading
Posted in pension playpen, pensions
Tagged Aon Hewitt, Dunkirk, KPMG, pension, Phoney War, Speed dating, Steve Webb, Towers Watson
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Will no one rid me of this troublesome press? Mr Godfrey defends “Corporate Access”.
I intend to make a lot of noise and suggest that you send Daniel a lot of your noise too,
Send your noise to daniel.godfrey@investmentuk.org
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Not what’s in the pot but what it buys – Pension RTI
Progress means talking straight with people, it isn’t always pleasant but it has to be done. Continue reading
