Tag Archives: National Employment Savings Trust

Big clubs and big pensions are winners – but we don’t all support them!

Posted on April 15, 2025 by henry tapper

My generation is reaching the end of pension politics. Mark Rowlands was my Friends Provident broker consultant when I was at Gissings in the early 1990s. He’s hanging up his clogs for the final time shortly having eked out his … Continue reading →

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Welcome Scotland – goodbye Culloden

Posted on April 5, 2025 by henry tapper

Those familiar with these things will recognise my Partick correspondent talking to the Pensions Minister. He’s chuffed as he should be – few people achieved what he has done for the PPF. I have been thinking of the exercise of … Continue reading →

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Defending the defenceless is ethical; the money’s in my pension fund!

Posted on March 10, 2025 by henry tapper

The FT, like the Telegraph, are keen to talk up the adamant attitude of People’s Pension and Nest to run ethical funds that do not invest in defence stocks. This despite calls from 100 Labour MPs to increase fund investment … Continue reading →

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Benefits are one thing, pensions are quite another.

Posted on February 24, 2025 by henry tapper

Mark Pemberthy is a benefits guy, has been for decades and he’s one of the auto-enrolment guys who in has been an LBG financial adviser and since auto-enrolment got done has got into communicating benefits for clients who can afford … Continue reading →

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Nest’s a trust based pension – not a building society (says Todd)

Posted on February 17, 2025 by henry tapper

    Why am I wasting my time watching VFM stuff when I could be watching Nest’s Paul Todd about turning Nest into a pension. I don’t know this guy but I know people who do and so I’m going … Continue reading →

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If only we had a Pensions Regulator as interesting as Sarah Smart.

Posted on February 15, 2025 by henry tapper

I was speaking yesterday with a journalist who is interested in the future of TPR and the rating I gave its current Chair Sarah Smart. Let me clarify, I think that Sarah has done all she could and for almost … Continue reading →

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What’s happening to L&G’s shares matters to our pensions

Posted on February 9, 2025 by henry tapper

On Friday, the FT brooked a story which at first site is a bit obscure, concerning Japanese and American businesses. Legal & General has brokered a deal to sell its US insurance business to Japan’s Meiji Yasuda for $2.3bn in … Continue reading →

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David Fairs sees a brave new world of DC mega-funds.

Posted on February 9, 2025 by henry tapper

  David Fairs is on this week’s VFM podcast and like Sarah Smart he arrived with an agenda that related to pensions, this meant talking about the pension funding question that he’d wrestled with while at the Pensions Regulator and … Continue reading →

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A concrete proposal to Run on 4 Good.

Posted on February 4, 2025 by henry tapper

I have had a PDF in my inbox for some time and I finally got to read it this morning. It’s from William McGrath, who many will know is a former CEO of Aga and someone who thinks a lot … Continue reading →

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DC VFM = the value of pension for the money saved.

Posted on January 31, 2025 by henry tapper

I think the scale program instigated by Government to get DC plans “valuable” is the wrong measure.  I’d like to say why. Government can achieve its aim of VFM for DC schemes better. Government needs to start thinking of VFM … Continue reading →

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