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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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EU Solvency II
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the pension plowman
- The Pension Plowman Daily is out! paper.li/henryhtapper ▸ Top stories today via @hrmagazinethanks 2 hours ago
- "Fit lean pension machines" - an uncomfortable prospect? wp.me/ppXQz-2Ni via @henryhtapperthanks 2 hours ago
- RT @telegraph: New IQ measure - have you taken the test? soa.li/mNT4k5U Didn't get it. I must be thick -er where do you press?thanks 2 hours ago
- RT @FSMarketingGuru: @henryhtapper interesting time to put the thought out with a great like @iancowie packing in. #blogging #journalismthanks 4 hours ago
- RT @rosaltmann: Costs of pension a/e for smaller firms isn't so much the contributions as the administration complexity. It's so complicate…thanks 4 hours ago
- RT @FSMarketingGuru: @henryhtapper check out @iancowie missive here? blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/ianmco…thanks 4 hours ago
- Readers, reporters and City scandals since 1986 via @Telegraph soa.li/8WSODMgthanks 4 hours ago
- RT @FSMarketingGuru: @henryhtapper aren't most journalists also bloggers too... Mixing art forms can only be good - agree Steph H. Is a cla…thanks 4 hours ago
- @FSMarketingGuru agree; but the dividing line is clear - opinion v research? What do you think? #blogging v #journalism #pensionsthanks 4 hours ago
- Why bloggers won't replace journalists lnkd.in/vCJUgsthanks 7 hours ago
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- The true and fair way to "cost" your investments
- Why bloggers won't replace journalists
- A democratic way to improve DC investment.
- Replacing the financial salesman in the workplace.
- Morrison's "Save our Dough" campaign.
- The Regulator's brilliant auto-enrolment website.
- "Fit lean pension machines" - an uncomfortable prospect?
- Commission - an unwanted risk.
- Who speaks for workplace pensions?
- A great day for Yeovil Town Football Club
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- my linked in site
- Oliver Tapper's blog
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Tag Archives: Investment management
In the customer’s shoes; Dan Norman on our fund fiduciaries.
those charged with fiduciary responsibilities, including the managers themselves must, as Dan puts it “put themselves in their customers shoes” and start treating them fairly, Continue reading
Posted in actuaries, auto-enrolment, corporate governance, David Pitt-Watson, dc pensions, de-risking, Financial Education, First Actuarial, pension playpen, pensions
Tagged Asset management, Dan Norman, Funds, Gregg McClymont, Individual Savings Account, Investment management, Mutual fund fees and expenses
4 Comments
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
1 Comment
Should we measure pension fees as “risk”?
This is simple measure which makes such fundamental sense that any fool can grasp it. Continue reading
Is this what your savings are paying for?
We have another Twickenham home international coming up, look out for your favourite analyst , he’ll be in one of the glass-fronted boxes . Continue reading
Posted in Twickenham, Bankers, FSA
Tagged Asset, Financial Services Authority, Investment management, Chief executive officer, FSA, Financial Times, Extel, Thomson Reuters
4 Comments
“Three into two won’t go”- NO EXIT at Playpen lunch!
Three into two won’t go – but I can say this was the hardest but most rewarding meeting I have yet chaired Continue reading
Posted in pension playpen, pensions, Personality, poetry, Popcorn Pensions
Tagged Business, David, DNA, Funds, Investment management, Jeremy Spencer, Lunch, Mutual fund
7 Comments
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
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
Diagnosing the real cost of DC
A problem with buying ”bundled” DC services is finding out what’s really going on under the bonnet. I recently blew my power steering pump , I wanted to know what had happened but the pump was in a sealed unit – no warning … Continue reading
Posted in annuity, dc pensions
Tagged ABI, AMC, Defined contribution plan, Diagnosis, Investment management, pension, Pension Regulator, Transaction cost
9 Comments
Poor execution – a pigsty – not a playpen
A researcher I was speaking to yesterday asked whether I considered the bad practices associated with the poor execution of trades by fund managers as criminal fraud. His argument was that indirect benefits such as the receiving of rugby tickets from … Continue reading
Bothered about your pension wealth?
In the past few days I’ve had some fruity exchanges with Tom McPhail of Hargreaves Lansdowne about when people should start getting interested in managing their pension pot. Tom’s view is “as soon as savings begin, mine “when you can be bothered”. Hargreaves … Continue reading
