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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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- 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 8 hours ago
- RT @blackbullion: Was great to spend the day with @NAPFnews SE and the ubiquitous @henryhtapper at the gorgeous Leeds castle #moneysmarterthanks 9 hours ago
- The Pension Plowman Daily is out! paper.li/henryhtapper ▸ Top stories today via @pensionsweek @atheistactuary @henryhtapperthanks 16 hours ago
- RT @SReeder01: @AdviserLounge @rosaltmann @henryhtapper @PensionsGuru @PensionsMonkey Heres another idea "Facebook Welfare" http://t.co/WNU…thanks 16 hours ago
- @Totalrhubarb Read it earlier. Good article.thanks 20 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 20 hours ago
- We're on the road (to somewhere) lnkd.in/B9jx4Ythanks 21 hours ago
- We're on the road (to somewhere) wp.me/ppXQz-2Rbthanks 21 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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- Will no one rid me of this troublesome press? Mr Godfrey defends "Corporate Access".
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- Pensions personality - the oxymoron is back!
- Diversification and speculation are different.
- Not what's in the pot but what it buys - Pension RTI
- A message to 1.2m employers who aren't reading (yet)!
- All you never wanted to know about that Pension PlayPen GPP
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- Brilliant pensions website
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- my linked in site
- Oliver Tapper's blog
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Category Archives: redington
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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Don’t put your swaptions on the stage Mrs Redington!
This post has been prompted by the very progressive @redingtontweets feed which recently asked it’s excited readership (Well me!) Would you be interested in a lower return on your #DC#pension in exchange for a perpetual floor of 80% of your #asset value? … Continue reading
Posted in actuaries, auto-enrolment, Bankers, pension playpen, pensions, redington, social media
Tagged Bank, Business, Christmas, Investing, pension, Pensions in the United Kingdom, redington, Swaption
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Reformation The Mallowstreet Party
Vincent Franklin looked out from what used to be the roof of City Telephone Exchange. The Exchange (according to Con Keating) had walls fifteen metres thick and had been built to withstand a nuclear bomb. They’d pulled it down to … Continue reading
Posted in Bankers, Change, Church of England, corporate governance, economics, Fred Goodwin, leadership, mallowstreet, Olympics, Olympics 2012, pension playpen, pensions, redington, Retirement
Tagged Business, dc pensions, Financial services, Human Resources, pension playpen, Pension Poverty, pensions, Retirement, Society
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Social entrepreneurs and pension leaders ; Robert and Dawid
Some talk about it, some tweet about it and some do it. Robert and Dawid, my friends who run Redington and Mallowstreet do all three! It’s one thing to muse on instigating best practice into pension scheme management, it’s another to … Continue reading
Posted in de-risking, mallowstreet, pensions, redington, social media
Tagged Business, de-risking, Entrepreneur, Financial services, Languages, Lisp, mallowstreet, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, Pension new, pensions, Philanthropy, Programming, redington, Scheme, Social Enterprise, Social entrepreneurship, social media, Venture Capital
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Two and a half cheers for UK pensions
The other man’s grass is always greener or so it would seem if you work in the UK pension industry. Over the years we have got used to a succession of overseas dignitaries visiting our shores, speaking at our conferences and … Continue reading
Posted in mallowstreet, NEST, pension playpen, pensions, redington, Retail Distribution Review, Retirement, Treasury
Tagged Financial Assistance Scheme, Institute of Actuaries, mallowstreet, NEST, New Zealand, pension, Pension new, pension playpen, Pension Poverty, Pension Protection Fund, Pensions, pensions, Politics, Public Sector Pensions, redington, Retail Distribution Review, Retirement, Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts Manufactures & Commerce, Royal Society of the Arts, South Africa, The PEnsion Regulator, Treasury, United States, USA
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I’d trust a “contract” but not a “Fiduciary”
The terminology we use “fiduciary, instituional, custody” is not a language that prevails among lay trustees- it is the language of the legal and financial communities. “Fiduciary” in particular is a bad word, as an adjective it denotes “trust and confidence” but intimidates and alienates everyday people- too many vowells, too many syllables and not enough Anglo Saxon gutterality! It says “difficult, opaque and self-absorbed”.
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Posted in dc pensions, de-risking, Liability Driven Investment, Personal Accounts, redington, Retirement, social media
Tagged corporate risk, dc pensions, de-risking, Liability Driven Investment, Pension new, Pensions, Persnal Accounts, Personal Accounts, redington, Retirement, social media
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I outsourced my pension fund to a Fiduciary Manager (but didn’t know it)
I discovered I’d outsourced my personal pension fund to a Fiduciary Manager. So had all my colleagues, so had 90% of the 14,000 personal pension holders who are my clients and so had the trustees and sponsors of all the Schemes I’d been involved in at Zurich and Eagle Star Continue reading
Posted in EU Solvency II, Fiduciary Management, Liability Driven Investment, redington, Retirement, Treasury
Tagged Adolf Hitler, car crash, cardano, corporate risk, DB pension, DC pension, Eagle Star, EU Solvency II, Fiduciary Management, God, implemented consulting, Kerrin Rosenburg, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Liability Driven Investment, Lifestyle, Moliere, Monsieur Jordain, redington, Retirement, Robert Gardner, Treasury, trustees, world war 1, world war 2, Zurich
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Contract based DB- Redington v Cardano- no blood!
Full house in St Albans for the Redington/Cardano match-off. Morinho v Ferguson, Ali v Fraser, Cowell v Walsh-we had been promised blood. Things started poorly, a weak show of hands from the audience on who was supporting who (needed some hand helds to give … Continue reading
Antisocial media
We are surfing the tsunami of social media but fun as it is on the wave, we shouldn’t ignore its destructive capacity. Continue reading
Posted in de-risking, Facebook, pensions, redington, twitter
Tagged cycling, de-risking, England versus Ukraine, Facebook, football, News of the World, Pension new, pensions, redington, social media, tsunami, twitter
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