Tag Archives: Pension Regulator

Port Talbot needs a plan B

Posted on January 19, 2024 by henry tapper

I’m not going to try and to compete with the BBC, Its reporting on the announcement that the blast furnaces at Port Talbot will be closing and 3000 jobs will be lost at Tata Steel, is magnificent.  Give this a … Continue reading →

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The quiet revolution at the Pensions Regulator

Posted on June 13, 2023 by henry tapper

In a submission to the Work and Pensions select committee inquiry into DB pensions, The Pensions Regulator encourages broader consideration of a wider role for the PPF. pic.twitter.com/g2ACSuAEPe — Josephine Cumbo (@JosephineCumbo) June 12, 2023 I’ve written several times recently … Continue reading →

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Dashboards will test quality of service – and value for members.

Posted on June 27, 2022 by henry tapper

Thanks Paul McGlone for reminding the good people of Linked-in that “dashboard denial” is futile. He ends a pithy argument with an admission that while dashboards are coming , we don’t know quite when. Of course, none of that is … Continue reading →

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CDC – time to ask the audience?

Posted on January 31, 2022 by henry tapper

  When you bring a new product to market, you first test whether there is a gap into which it can fit. If nothing else, the FCA’s Retirement Income Study is showing that there is space in the market for … Continue reading →

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The prospect of fair, sufficient and sustainable pensions; miracle or mirage?

Posted on August 25, 2021 by henry tapper

In a very short time , Pension PlayPen’s coffee mornings have achieved a regular following of 100 or so pension professionals, keen to hear and share views on critical pension issues. Steve Goddard has assembled a group of Pension All … Continue reading →

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“The best use of our resources”

Posted on February 14, 2021 by henry tapper

  This article is from Dave Brooks ( @pensionsdave) ,Technical Director at Broadstone. It was originally published here. It is a good contribution to the debate which has raged on this blog.  The trickiest balancing act that The Pensions Regulator … Continue reading →

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A Minister Drinking the Regulator’s Kool-Aid – No Consolation

Posted on December 8, 2020 by henry tapper

An article by Con Keating The  preamble to a recent article in Professional Pensions by the Pensions Minister, Guy Opperman, read: ” In the fourth of a five-part series of articles for PP, pensions minister Guy Opperman sets out how … Continue reading →

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A DC code for the rich, not much for the poor

Posted on July 29, 2016 by henry tapper

    The Pension Regulator has published its new DC Code, a hefty tome in itself (38 pages). It has published a further six guides which collectively run to a further 130 pages. If you were to spend the rest … Continue reading →

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“Just because you’ve built it”..Some home truths about robo-advice.

Posted on July 17, 2016 by henry tapper

The problem with Alan and Gina Miller is they are right, and they say the things that the financial services industry don’t want to hear. Before the TTF was a gleam in our eye , they were proving we were … Continue reading →

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Playing the personality card

Posted on July 13, 2016 by henry tapper

Of all the financial myths that remain unchallenged, the myth of personality is least challenged and most lethal. For it allows the congregation of expert panels/committees/boards – stuffed with perceived “personality” to validate all manner of iniquities. For those personalities … Continue reading →

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