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henry tapper
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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
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- Reasonable Force- should pensions be compulsory
- The Pension Play Pen
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Chateaux in Piedmont
EU Solvency II
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- A democratic way to improve DC investment.
- Why bloggers can never replace journalists
- Replacing the financial salesman in the workplace.
- Morrison's "Save our Dough" campaign.
- Who speaks for workplace pensions?
- Commission - an unwanted risk.
- A great day for Yeovil Town Football Club
- The Regulator's brilliant auto-enrolment website.
- "Fit lean pension machines" - an uncomfortable prospect?
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- Brilliant pensions website
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- 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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Tag Archives: Employment
A democratic way to improve DC investment.
The responsibility for improving DC governance falls on all of us Continue reading
The Regulator’s brilliant auto-enrolment website.
It is an example to other Government functions on how to engage with its audience. Continue reading
Replacing the financial salesman in the workplace.
Auto-enrolment killed this kind of adviser as video killed the radio star. Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, annuity, auto-enrolment, Payroll, pensions
Tagged Consultant, Employment, finance, Financial adviser, Financial services, GPP, Insurance, pension
9 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
5 Comments
Has Webb scotch’d the commission snake – or killed it?
All the advisers needed to do was to make promises. They did not have to keep them. Continue reading
Posted in annuity, Fred Goodwin, pension playpen, pensions, poetry, Treasury
Tagged Employment, FCA, Financial Conduct Authority, Financial services, Office of Fair Trading, OFT, pension, Steve Webb
4 Comments
Bridging that advice gap – 43rd London Pension Lunch
Vivi and others were more optimistic, reckoning that employer power might be a way of driving standards up. Continue reading
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
Pot noodles member
Think technology Steve, small pots will become a lot smaller through aggregation and operation big fat pot may end up being renamed “Webb’s folly”.
Continue reading
Posted in pensions
Tagged Department for Work and Pensions, DWP, Employment, Hansard, Insurance, pension, Steve Webb, Webb
3 Comments
Helping companies take decisions on pensions
One of the first thing you are taught at sales school is to “sell not tell”. Selling people an idea is about planting and nurturing an idea, not marching customers to the check-out desk. When it comes to taking a … Continue reading
Posted in pensions, Popcorn Pensions, Retirement
Tagged Business, Employment, Funds, Investing, Mutual Funds, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, Question
3 Comments
The sins of the past
We have concentrated our thinking on how the financial services industry will cope with the new business strain of auto-enrolment. For many providers the bigger issue will be the impact on its existing business. Continue reading
