Category Archives: social media

Room 101 for BT Fon

Posted on August 18, 2015 by henry tapper

Join me if you would like the appallingly intrusive BT Fon service banished to room 101. The ridiculous pay as you go service is like the unwanted guest who turns up uninvited at your every event. BT Fon sits on … Continue reading →

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Making social media work for us

Posted on July 8, 2015 by henry tapper

One of the things that social media does, is blur the line between work and play. The distinction is one that employers , regulators and brands attempt to manage, often with arcane rules that make them a laughing stock to their … Continue reading →

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Pensions are yours to spend – but how do you get to the shops?

Posted on November 9, 2014 by henry tapper

Ours to spend! If I were to give you £100,000 and tell you that that was to bide you over to the end of your life you might initially be excited – you might then become apprehensive and you might … Continue reading →

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Is there a productivity dividend from auto-enrolment?

Posted on September 23, 2014 by henry tapper

Pension PlayPen will give a leg up to anyone who’s trying – even some clapped out old bank that lost the trust of its customers long ago. So here’s some research produced by Barclays. I have written recently about the … Continue reading →

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Fear of feedback

Posted on September 13, 2014 by henry tapper

Everyone knows what social media does. For every blog there are comments, every forum has its threads, some twitter conversations last for weeks. It is the interaction between author and reader that makes it distinctive. The “Letter in the Times” … Continue reading →

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The FCA and Social Media (Canute II)

Posted on August 13, 2014 by henry tapper

  The FCA have set out their policy on social media which concentrates on the use of Twitter. It is worth a read, if only to establish why the supervision of the internet is as feasible as Canute’s supervision of the … Continue reading →

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Pension PlayPen- Britain’s most innovative pension consultancy

Posted on July 3, 2014 by henry tapper

  Dawid Konotey-Ahulu mailed me yesterday to tell me we’d been named Engaged Investor’s most innovative pension consultancy. It’s a mark of Dawid’s genorosity that he thought to contact me, even though the firm he started Redington had (along with … Continue reading →

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Do I need a TV anymore?

Posted on May 28, 2014 by henry tapper

    Other than for the prurience of watching Tina’s come uppance on Corrie. I have not engaged with terrestrial TV for some time. Phone and laptop in hand I have found all I needed on the Monaco Grand Prix, … Continue reading →

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The Vision of the Plowman

Posted on August 18, 2013 by henry tapper

The “Vision of the Pension Plowman” is a bastardisation of the title of a 14th century english Poet (William Langland’s) great poem, “the Vision of Piers Plowman”. In this great book, the Plowman falls asleep by a stream and dreams … Continue reading →

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Why bother to save? – Invest instead!

Posted on August 9, 2013 by henry tapper

What this policy is about is getting people to invest in real assets for the best interests in society Continue reading →

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