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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
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
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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 3 hours ago
- RT @blackbullion: Was great to spend the day with @NAPFnews SE and the ubiquitous @henryhtapper at the gorgeous Leeds castle #moneysmarterthanks 4 hours ago
- The Pension Plowman Daily is out! paper.li/henryhtapper ▸ Top stories today via @pensionsweek @atheistactuary @henryhtapperthanks 11 hours ago
- RT @SReeder01: @AdviserLounge @rosaltmann @henryhtapper @PensionsGuru @PensionsMonkey Heres another idea "Facebook Welfare" http://t.co/WNU…thanks 11 hours ago
- @Totalrhubarb Read it earlier. Good article.thanks 15 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 15 hours ago
- We're on the road (to somewhere) lnkd.in/B9jx4Ythanks 16 hours ago
- We're on the road (to somewhere) wp.me/ppXQz-2Rbthanks 16 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”
DB de-risking presntation (ppt)
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Category Archives: NEST
Pensions for nothing and advice for free
Insurers will reconsider their options on schemes where commission is paid but no advice is delivered Continue reading
Posted in auto-enrolment, investment, NEST, pensions
Tagged AMC, Consultant, Employment, Financial services, Insurance, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, Trail commission
6 Comments
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
15 Comments
Do consumers benefit from risk-based pricing?
may be wrong, the idea put up by John Raven, that a risk-based system delivers more may be right, but intuitively I sense we are moving to a more pooled approach to pricing. Continue reading
Heavyweight support for CDC – the Dutchmen strike back!
I sit and watch; – like 1.2m other employers, I just want to see the money I pay into a workplace pension generate the best outcomes it can. Continue reading
Posted in actuaries, advice gap, auto-enrolment, CDC, David Pitt-Watson, NEST, pensions, Retirement, workplace pensions
Tagged Aviva, Bank of England, CDC, David Pitt-Watson, Dutch, Government, John, pension
7 Comments
Cometh the hour;- the Regulator gets its man
I’m really pleased that they have chosen as their new Executive Director for DC – Andrew Warwick-Thompson Continue reading
Who’s been sleeping in my bed? Shocking stuff on stock lending.
Storage companies do not lend out your property, but fund managers do! Continue reading
Posted in dc pensions, Fiduciary Management, Financial Education, First Actuarial, NEST, pension playpen, pensions, stock lending
Tagged BlackRock, Cass Business School, Esma, European Securities and Markets Authority, Exchange-traded fund, HSBC, Investment management, Securities lending, UCITS, United States
8 Comments
Primavera for the pension playpen
This site will not be for pension people, it will be for people interested in pensions 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
5 Comments
Bill – get some DC resource into the Regulator now!
Bill, t tPR need a gong-worthy head of DC asap. Continue reading
Better ways to diversify the default.
When people see the jigsaw being put together , we may even get better public confidence in workplace pension schemes – something devoutly to be hoped for! Continue reading
