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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
- Pension Playpen
- Reasonable Force- should pensions be compulsory
- The Pension Play Pen
- Yeovil Town FC
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Chateaux in Piedmont
EU Solvency II
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- The Regulator's brilliant auto-enrolment website. wp.me/ppXQz-2MC via @henryhtapperthanks 10 hours ago
- A great day for Yeovil Town Football Club wp.me/ppXQz-2MJ via @henryhtapper #ytfcthanks 10 hours ago
- Shows what the little man can do wp.me/ppXQz-2MV #ytfcthanks 10 hours ago
- "Fit lean pension machines" - an uncomfortable prospect? wp.me/ppXQz-2Ni #pensionsthanks 10 hours ago
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- JacktheJouneyman - the PlayPen horse! wp.me/ppXQz-2IG via @henryhtapperthanks 13 hours ago
- The Pension Plowman Daily is out! paper.li/henryhtapper ▸ Top stories today via @ai_CIO @jonstapleton @Jimmer84thanks 18 hours ago
- "Fit lean pension machines" - an uncomfortable prospect? wp.me/ppXQz-2Ni #pensionsthanks 22 hours ago
- Replacing the financial salesman in the workplace. wp.me/ppXQz-2Ma via #pensionsthanks 22 hours ago
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- Replacing the financial salesman in the workplace.
- A great day for Yeovil Town Football Club
- Who speaks for workplace pensions?
- In the customer's shoes; Dan Norman on our fund fiduciaries.
- How sure are you that you'll get your pension promise?
- Tesco v Morrisons - a pension-enrolment showdown
- A day on the river
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- Brilliant pensions website
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- my linked in site
- Oliver Tapper's blog
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Tag Archives: pension
Commission – an unwanted risk.
Remaining in denial only defers and increases risk. Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, pensions
Tagged AMC, Consultant, DWP, Government, GPP, John McCririck, OFT, pension
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“Fit lean pension machines” – an uncomfortable prospect?
We move into day two of auto-enrolment with all to play for on a pitch increasingly likely to take spin Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, auto-enrolment, Bankers, dc pensions, EU Solvency II, pensions
Tagged Aviva, Bob Diamond, Far East, Gregg McClymont, Labour, OFT, pension, Steve Webb
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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
8 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
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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
So what’s new in pension reform?
This is a round-up of the current issues buzzing around pensions; we’ll be producing plenty of these bulletins from http://www.pensionplaypen.com so do sign up to its email to get them. Auto-enrolment is underway; but even as staging commences, new pension … Continue reading
Posted in Australia
Tagged Consultant, George Osborne, Government, Gregg McClymont, pension, Sherlock Holmes, Speech from the throne, UK State Pension
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Into the heart of darkness – ooops Midlothian!
Let’s hope he gets a great turnout and that we have as lively a debate as ever Continue reading
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
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A momentous day for restoring confidence in UK pensions
We cannot have confidence in a system where member’s pensions can be impacted by as much as 30% though advisory arbitrage. Continue reading
