Tag Archives: Saving

The tougher it gets, the harder we save

Posted on May 16, 2023 by henry tapper

It seems that as times get harder , our tenacity to provide ourselves with future security increases. New analysis from leading online pension provider, PensionBee, reveals that pension savers put significantly more money aside for their retirement at the start … Continue reading →

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Let’s put workplace pension saving in perspective.

Posted on March 7, 2023 by henry tapper

A sense of perspective needs to be applied to this headline in Professional Pensions. The Government backing the private members bill that extends auto-enrolment commits them to no more than they promised in 2017 and does not even commit them … Continue reading →

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Pension Bee and Snoop partner to help us manage our pension saving.

Posted on September 1, 2022 by henry tapper

I’m keen for pension providers to use innovative ways to help manage their pension saving. This looks a good initiative. Let’s hope that some workplace pension providers take note! PensionBee, has announced a partnership with money-saving app, Snoop, to help … Continue reading →

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Better savings beat bitter outcomes!

Posted on February 18, 2022 by henry tapper

For the majority of people, the simple rules of saving early, saving hard and being patient apply. The savings agenda can’t be dominated by fear of penal taxation on those with high earnings and wealth. https://t.co/rpfzJ86uX4 — Henry Tapper (@henryhtapper) … Continue reading →

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SUEZ – harnessing payroll’s power for good.

Posted on November 26, 2021 by henry tapper

  I have written before about SUEZ’s can-do attitude to solving their worker’s financial problems. We are currently engaged with Michelle Sutton in helping staff get to know their workplace pension and use it to improve the outcomes of their … Continue reading →

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Can data help us monitor and improve pension engagement?

Posted on May 27, 2021 by henry tapper

  I have been publishing sections of my long response to the FCA and TPR’s call for input on the pensions consumer journey. We started by looking at the pension consumer journey asking whether simplifying and standardising it made sense … Continue reading →

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Sunak should encourage us to invest not hoard.

Posted on March 1, 2021 by henry tapper

Hoarding is most unpopular with the British public as memories of empty supermarket shelves last spring are slow to fade. There are probably still stockpiles of toilet rolls in little visited cupboards. We still have a few jars of fruit … Continue reading →

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Michael Johnson – the best spokesperson pensions never had

Posted on January 4, 2021 by henry tapper

I can understand why Michael Johnson is so angry, he has missed the boat and he knows it. In 2013 he wrote a paper promoting the dashboard as a small pot aggregator and here he is in 2016 telling the … Continue reading →

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Saving our way to a fairer society..

Posted on December 14, 2020 by henry tapper

Thanks a second time to Michael Johnson for asking a salient question about recently published data If we compare four months in 2019 and 2020 we see a £20.5 billion behavioural swing: At the end of February 2020, total outstanding … Continue reading →

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Resourceful or complacent – is Gen X saving enough?

Posted on February 18, 2020 by henry tapper

By any conventional yardstick, Generation Xers arenot saving enough to retire in their sixties. This is the first finding of a remarkable piece of research by Dunstan Thomas, one of our true “pentechs”. But have conventional yardsticks have validity to … Continue reading →

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