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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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- RT @PensionsGuru: @henryhtapper Well thank you Henry. I thought it was pretty cute when I penned it...thanks 4 hours ago
- @PensionsGuru Deffo better than J Bitumenthanks 5 hours ago
- RT @PensionsGuru: @henryhtapper Henry - here's a John Betjeman poem I sort of re-wrote once; I think it's better than the original... http:…thanks 5 hours ago
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- @PensionsGuru Wilfred Owen "I am the enemy you killed my friendthanks 10 hours ago
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- @PensionsGuru it seemed that out of battle I escaped, through some full corridor long since scooped... #strangemeetingthanks 10 hours ago
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- If I were Steve Webb..
- "My word is my Eurobond" - pensions without banks
- A message to 1.2m employers who aren't reading (yet)!
- Shows what the little man can do
- Not what's in the pot but what it buys - Pension RTI
- All you never wanted to know about that Pension PlayPen GPP
- Will no one rid me of this troublesome press? Mr Godfrey defends "Corporate Access".
- "We don't know what we're doing"!
- In a muddle about investment management fees
- My mother is a donut
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- Brilliant pension report from Raconteur
- Brilliant pensions website
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- 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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Category Archives: annuity
Opt in to certainty
My partner has come up with a very simple way to improve DC. Her suggestion is this. Large DC plans simply set a level of pension they can afford to pay from the funds within the plan and this is … Continue reading
Posted in annuity, David Pitt-Watson, dc pensions, economics, pensions
3 Comments
Why target date funds have been slow to catch on
with all the headwinds in the favour of TDFs and against Lifestyle it’s hard to see why insurers aren’t switching to TDFs Continue reading
Posted in actuaries, advice gap, annuity, auto-enrolment, governance, investment
Tagged BlackRock, Funds, Investing, Lifestyle, Mutual fund, SHPS, Target date fund, United States
1 Comment
Replacing the financial salesman in the workplace.
Auto-enrolment killed this kind of adviser as video killed the radio star. Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, annuity, auto-enrolment, Payroll, pensions
Tagged Consultant, Employment, finance, Financial adviser, Financial services, GPP, Insurance, pension
12 Comments
Has Webb scotch’d the commission snake – or killed it?
All the advisers needed to do was to make promises. They did not have to keep them. Continue reading
Posted in annuity, Fred Goodwin, pension playpen, pensions, poetry, Treasury
Tagged Employment, FCA, Financial Conduct Authority, Financial services, Office of Fair Trading, OFT, pension, Steve Webb
8 Comments
Steve Webb’s water-cooler moment
“You learn what they care about, what they understand and what they don’t. And you can join in. But what you can’t do, is take charge.” Continue reading
Posted in actuaries, annuity, pension playpen, pensions, social media
Tagged DWP, Minister (government), pension, social media, Steve Webb, Sun, Vincent Franklin, Webb
10 Comments
Whatever we do, let’s do it together
I have just read a Report by Demos which ends like this The shift in private retirement coverage from traditional pensions to individual retirement plans has made the goal of a comfortable retirement a risky, costly gamble. A fortunate few will … Continue reading
“Stick or twist” for the lifecos.
It is hard for the insurers to twist because they think the dealer’s against them. Continue reading
Posted in annuity, auto-enrolment, customer service, David Pitt-Watson, dc pensions, EU Solvency II, Financial Education, Henry Tapper blog, pension playpen, pensions, Personality, Popcorn Pensions, Retail Distribution Review, Retirement, social media
Tagged Aviva, BlackRock, David Pitt-Watson, House of Fraser, John, Legal & General, National Employment Savings Trust, Standard Life
21 Comments
This is no country for old women
I haven’t been a great fan of academic pensions research or researchers for that matter. The research is typically a big whinge about people not getting a fair deal, the researchers comfortably cocooned in university sponsored sinecures or pensions. So I … Continue reading
Posted in actuaries, annuity, pensions
Tagged annuity, Basic State Pension, Business, dc pensions, Directive (European Union), Employment, Greece, Noel Whiteside, pension, Politics, Public Sector Pensions, Retirement, Royal Statistical Society, social media, Society, UK State Pension, University of Warwick
5 Comments
DC4Good; ABdc and the Pension Trust get it.
DC just took a little step forward… Here’s AllianceBernstein‘s press release (with the flim-flam deleted and my comments in blue) AllianceBernstein has launched a range of ethical target date funds for the UK DC market. Good news, we all know that … Continue reading
