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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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EU Solvency II
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- The Regulator's brilliant auto-enrolment website.
- A democratic way to improve DC investment.
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- Brilliant pensions website
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- my linked in site
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Category Archives: auto-enrolment
If it’s worth having- let’s have it now!
News travels fast on the web but the news that it’s taken the BBC 5 years to work out that a lot of the technology they’d blown £100m on is available today for free, clearly travelled slowly. If a technology … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, auto-enrolment, pensions, Popcorn Pensions
Tagged BBC, Digital electronics, Digital media, IPhone, Liquid crystal display, Regent Street, Salford Quays, YouTube
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Why bloggers won’t replace journalists
She gets the aggregates and cements, mixes the concrete , lays it and sells the building! Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, auto-enrolment, pensions
Tagged Education, Employee benefit, Human Resources, Journalist, Payroll, pension, Whitbread, Yeomen Warders
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The true and fair way to “cost” your investments
This machine will increase competition, drive out inefficiencies and increase respect for managers (with an eye to costs ) Continue reading
“Fit lean pension machines” – an uncomfortable prospect?
We move into day two of auto-enrolment with all to play for on a pitch increasingly likely to take spin Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, auto-enrolment, Bankers, dc pensions, EU Solvency II, pensions
Tagged Aviva, Bob Diamond, Far East, Gregg McClymont, Labour, OFT, pension, Steve Webb
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The Regulator’s brilliant auto-enrolment website.
It is an example to other Government functions on how to engage with its audience. Continue reading
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
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Who speaks for workplace pensions?
So howabout PQM lite- something that smaller employers can aspire to? Continue reading
Posted in auto-enrolment, napf, NEST, pensions
Tagged Employment, FCA, NAPF, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, PQM, Steve Webb, www.pensionplaypen.com
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Into the heart of darkness – ooops Midlothian!
Let’s hope he gets a great turnout and that we have as lively a debate as ever Continue reading
A momentous day for restoring confidence in UK pensions
We cannot have confidence in a system where member’s pensions can be impacted by as much as 30% though advisory arbitrage. Continue reading
Bridging that advice gap – 43rd London Pension Lunch
Vivi and others were more optimistic, reckoning that employer power might be a way of driving standards up. Continue reading
