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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 5 hours ago
- RT @blackbullion: Was great to spend the day with @NAPFnews SE and the ubiquitous @henryhtapper at the gorgeous Leeds castle #moneysmarterthanks 6 hours ago
- The Pension Plowman Daily is out! paper.li/henryhtapper ▸ Top stories today via @pensionsweek @atheistactuary @henryhtapperthanks 12 hours ago
- RT @SReeder01: @AdviserLounge @rosaltmann @henryhtapper @PensionsGuru @PensionsMonkey Heres another idea "Facebook Welfare" http://t.co/WNU…thanks 13 hours ago
- @Totalrhubarb Read it earlier. Good article.thanks 16 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 16 hours ago
- We're on the road (to somewhere) lnkd.in/B9jx4Ythanks 17 hours ago
- We're on the road (to somewhere) wp.me/ppXQz-2Rbthanks 17 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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- We're on the road (to somewhere)
- If I were Steve Webb..
- Shows what the little man can do
- A message to 1.2m employers who aren't reading (yet)!
- "My word is my Eurobond" - pensions without banks
- Will no one rid me of this troublesome press? Mr Godfrey defends "Corporate Access".
- Not what's in the pot but what it buys - Pension RTI
- All you never wanted to know about that Pension PlayPen GPP
- In a muddle about investment management fees
- "We don't know what we're doing"!
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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”
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Category Archives: de-risking
Those Dutch Pensions – a Civil Servant writes
I get some feedback on my blogs from people I know who don’t want to or aren’t allowed to go public. Here’s an example from a formidable figure and a personal friend (who I know/hope has the skin or a rhino … Continue reading
Working for the clampdown?
“what are we going to do now?” Joe Strummer asked in 1979. Are we still working for the Clampdown? Continue reading
PlayPen votes for target date funds in action-packed lunch
In one of the noisiest and most passionate lunches we’ve ever had the playpen voted 15-7-3 for TDFs vLifestyle with 3 spoilt votes from the “we don’t do default” gang. This was a lunch where we were pretty well split between … Continue reading
Posted in auto-enrolment, de-risking, Financial Education, pension playpen, pensions
Tagged Asset allocation, Aviva, Lifestyle, Mutual fund, pension, Target date fund, TDF, Watson
3 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
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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
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When pensions de-mutualise
When you take the mutuality out of pensions , you take good pensions out of mutuals. Continue reading
Should we measure pension fees as “risk”?
This is simple measure which makes such fundamental sense that any fool can grasp it. Continue reading
Honest! Open Government in operation!
The word “transparent” is a syllable too long to be “honest”. Continue reading
Posted in auto-enrolment, brand, dc pensions, de-risking, ezra pound, NEST, Ricky Gervais, social media, TS Eliot
Tagged Aaron Swartz, Labour, O'Reilly Media, Open Government, pension, Ricky Gervais, Steve Webb, United States
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Bill – get some DC resource into the Regulator now!
Bill, t tPR need a gong-worthy head of DC asap. Continue reading


