Find what you need to know
Auto-enrolment sorted – click here
for playpen 2.0 - click the view from our patio
about.me
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
Blogroll
- 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
Top Clicks
the pension plowman
- RT @RalphPensionweb: Pensions Quality Mark a waste of time. @GOPMTV @henryhtapper #PQM #Pensions grumpyoldpensionmen.comthanks 31 minutes ago
- RT @RalphPensionweb: @henryhtapper You're in this week's @GOPMTV. grumpyoldpensionmen.com #pensionsthanks 2 hours ago
- The Pension Plowman Daily is out! paper.li/henryhtapper ▸ Top stories today via @hrmagazinethanks 5 hours ago
- "Fit lean pension machines" - an uncomfortable prospect? wp.me/ppXQz-2Ni via @henryhtapperthanks 5 hours ago
- RT @telegraph: New IQ measure - have you taken the test? soa.li/mNT4k5U Didn't get it. I must be thick -er where do you press?thanks 5 hours ago
- RT @FSMarketingGuru: @henryhtapper interesting time to put the thought out with a great like @iancowie packing in. #blogging #journalismthanks 6 hours ago
- RT @rosaltmann: Costs of pension a/e for smaller firms isn't so much the contributions as the administration complexity. It's so complicate…thanks 7 hours ago
- RT @FSMarketingGuru: @henryhtapper check out @iancowie missive here? blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/ianmco…thanks 7 hours ago
- Readers, reporters and City scandals since 1986 via @Telegraph soa.li/8WSODMgthanks 7 hours ago
- RT @FSMarketingGuru: @henryhtapper aren't most journalists also bloggers too... Mixing art forms can only be good - agree Steph H. Is a cla…thanks 7 hours ago
Top Rated
Top Posts
- The true and fair way to "cost" your investments
- Why bloggers won't replace journalists
- A democratic way to improve DC investment.
- Replacing the financial salesman in the workplace.
- The Regulator's brilliant auto-enrolment website.
- Morrison's "Save our Dough" campaign.
- Who speaks for workplace pensions?
- "Fit lean pension machines" - an uncomfortable prospect?
- Commission - an unwanted risk.
- A great day for Yeovil Town Football Club
Blog Stats
- 131,825 hits
Tags
Actuarial science annuity Business Business and Economy corporate governance corporate risk dc pensions de-risking Defined benefit pension plan DWP Employment England Facebook Financial services Financial Services Authority Government Human Resources Insurance Investing Investment Investment management Legal & General Liability Driven Investment Life annuity linkedin London National Employment Savings Trust NEST pension Pension new pension playpen Pension Poverty Pension Protection Fund Pension Regulator pensions Pensions Politics public sector Public Sector Pensions Retirement social media Society Steve Webb twitter United StatesWhat's hot and what's not
actuaries annuity auto-enrolment Bankers Change corporate governance customer service dc pensions de-risking defined aspiration Facebook Fiduciary Management Financial Education First Actuarial happiness Henry Tapper blog Liability Driven Investment mallowstreet Management NEST Payroll pension playpen pensions Personal Accounts Popcorn Pensions Retail Distribution Review Retirement social media Treasury twitterBlogroll
- 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)
Archives
- May 2013
- April 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- October 2012
- September 2012
- August 2012
- July 2012
- June 2012
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
- January 2011
- December 2010
- November 2010
- October 2010
- September 2010
- August 2010
- July 2010
- June 2010
- May 2010
- April 2010
- March 2010
- February 2010
- January 2010
- December 2009
- November 2009
- October 2009
- September 2009
- July 2009
- May 2009
- April 2009
- January 2009
Category Archives: corporate governance
Shopping for pensions
Internet marketing is a funny young business which looks the same as a funny old business called “shopping”. Continue reading
Can social media play a part in pension scheme governance?
Are the systems used to offer participating employers a say in the running of mastertrusts or contract based workplace pensions fit for today’s purpose? Continue reading
And why these “employer duties”?
Employers do not have fourty year business plans but employees do. We call those plans “careers”. Continue reading
“What’s expensive for a pension these days?”
Most UK pension people may still agree with you and see 0.9% as cheap but not me. It might have been cheap in 2000 and it certainly isn’t today! Continue reading
Posted in auto-enrolment, brand, corporate governance, customer service, David Pitt-Watson, dc pensions, fish, one pound fish, pensions, Personality, Retirement
Tagged AMC, Australia, David Pitt-Watson, Dutch, John, John Denham, Legal & General, pension
21 Comments
Better-buying makes auto-enrolment work
The promise of “Wealth at work” has disguised the paucity of the pension outcomes when work finishes. Continue reading
Posted in auto-enrolment, corporate governance, dc pensions, First Actuarial, Henry Tapper blog, pensions, steve webb, target date funds
Tagged Insurance, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, Pension Regulator, Self-invested personal pension, SHPS, Small and medium enterprises, UK State Pension
15 Comments
In the customer’s shoes; Dan Norman on our fund fiduciaries.
those charged with fiduciary responsibilities, including the managers themselves must, as Dan puts it “put themselves in their customers shoes” and start treating them fairly, Continue reading
Posted in actuaries, auto-enrolment, corporate governance, David Pitt-Watson, dc pensions, de-risking, Financial Education, First Actuarial, pension playpen, pensions
Tagged Asset management, Dan Norman, Funds, Gregg McClymont, Individual Savings Account, Investment management, Mutual fund fees and expenses
4 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
What to do about commission
Debbie O’ Donovan who blogs as DOD has written a definitive comment on commission and the shameful shenanigans of Q4 2012 which saw advisory firms filling their boots at the expense of the members of workplace pension schemes. Many years ago … Continue reading
Posted in auto-enrolment, corporate governance, dc pensions, pensions, Retirement
9 Comments
No win no fee – one way to clean up asset management
I met yesterday with a Swiss firm whose business is to reduce the investment costs for large investors (typically with €500m +). The model is simple, no retainer – they receive 50% of the savings from their work. They are a … Continue reading
Posted in Bankers, Change, corporate governance, David Pitt-Watson, dc pensions, de-risking, Fred Goodwin, FSA, Management, napf, pension playpen, pensions, RBS, redington, Retirement, twitter
Tagged Asset management, Business, Financial Services Authority, Funds, Investing, Investment management, Securities lending, Switzerland
1 Comment
Pension agnostic?
An ”agnostic“ is someone who knows he cannot know and so gives up trying to find out. You hear the phrase “pension agnostic” bandied around at the moment, mainly from the providers of ancillary services that help companies auto-enrol. If you key … Continue reading
Posted in pensions, dc pensions, Retirement, Fiduciary Management, pension playpen, corporate governance, defined aspiration, Consolation, Financial Education, actuaries, First Actuarial, hargreaves lansdowne
Tagged pension, Business, Employment, Financial adviser, Financial services, Human Resources, National Employment Savings Trust, Saving
7 Comments
