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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
boat builder
Chateaux in Piedmont
EU Solvency II
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the pension plowman
- The Pension Plowman Daily is out! paper.li/henryhtapper ▸ Top stories today via @ai_CIO @jonstapleton @Jimmer84thanks 2 hours ago
- "Fit lean pension machines" - an uncomfortable prospect? wp.me/ppXQz-2Ni #pensionsthanks 6 hours ago
- Replacing the financial salesman in the workplace. wp.me/ppXQz-2Ma via #pensionsthanks 6 hours ago
- Are pensions fundamentally flawed? henrytapper.com/2013/05/21/fit…thanks 6 hours ago
- The lurcher was (says Chris Evans) the earliest form of hot water bottle. My brother has a lurcher called Rosie the dog (frog) (hog) .thanks 7 hours ago
- "Fit lean pension machines" - an uncomfortable prospect? wp.me/ppXQz-2Nithanks 7 hours ago
- OMG - Guillemots are on the "cusp of flightlesness" could they be the new penguins?thanks 8 hours ago
- RT @Dev_Reward: The HR and Reward Daily Essentials is out! paper.li/Dev_Reward/135… ▸ Top stories today via @henryhtapper @EmployeeBenefit @e…thanks 23 hours ago
- The Regulator's brilliant auto-enrolment website. wp.me/ppXQz-2MC via @henryhtapperthanks 1 day ago
- The Pension Plowman Daily is out! paper.li/henryhtapper ▸ Top stories today via @iankmsmith @PensionsGuru @NewModelAdviserthanks 1 day ago
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- The Regulator's brilliant auto-enrolment website.
- "Fit lean pension machines" - an uncomfortable prospect?
- Shows what the little man can do
- Replacing the financial salesman in the workplace.
- A great day for Yeovil Town Football Club
- Who speaks for workplace pensions?
- Come on Yeovil!
- "If you can't beat them - eat them"
- Tesco v Morrisons - a pension-enrolment showdown
- The loveliest coastline in the world
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- 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
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Tag Archives: Insurance
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
7 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
The “advice gap” can and will be filled
The advice gap left by the banning of commission can and will be filled 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
Better-buying makes auto-enrolment work
The promise of “Wealth at work” has disguised the paucity of the pension outcomes when work finishes. Continue reading
Posted in auto-enrolment, corporate governance, dc pensions, First Actuarial, Henry Tapper blog, pensions, steve webb, target date funds
Tagged Insurance, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, Pension Regulator, Self-invested personal pension, SHPS, Small and medium enterprises, UK State Pension
15 Comments
Bill – get some DC resource into the Regulator now!
Bill, t tPR need a gong-worthy head of DC asap. Continue reading
Some of our insurers are missing
What have all these insurers got in common?
Answer, you can’t buy one of their personal pensions today.
Continue reading
Posted in pensions, Change, club pension, governance
Tagged Insurance, Standard Life, Abbey Life, Prudential, Friends Life, Irish Life & Permanent, Lloyd, MetLife
6 Comments
Time to look at VAT on pension costs
OK – not the most exciting topic but it’s an important one! I’ve seen no discussion about VAT on pension fees and that’s troubles me as we put together our strategy to sort out the pension challenge facing the 1.2m … Continue reading
Posted in auto-enrolment, pensions
Tagged Employment, Insurance, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, Pound sterling, Tesco, Value-added tax, VAT
7 Comments
Playpen guru says its all our fault
In an astonishing outburst at today Play Pen London lunch, pedagogue David Hargreaves bit the hand that fed and claimed that the predicament at retirement was down to the financial services industry. Hargreaves, an actuary who trades as the pension … Continue reading
The dam is full – manage the sluices
It can’t be much fun at the ABI these days. The FSA are investigating mis-pricing of annuities, the OFT are studying the distribution insurers use for pensions and just about every consumerist from Gregg McClymont to the NAPF are calling … Continue reading
