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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
boat builder
Chateaux in Piedmont
EU Solvency II
Yeovil Town
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- "Fit lean pension machines" - an uncomfortable prospect? wp.me/ppXQz-2Ni via @henryhtapperthanks 1 hour ago
- The Regulator's brilliant auto-enrolment website. wp.me/ppXQz-2MC via @henryhtapperthanks 2 hours ago
- A great day for Yeovil Town Football Club wp.me/ppXQz-2MJ via @henryhtapper #ytfcthanks 2 hours ago
- Shows what the little man can do wp.me/ppXQz-2MV #ytfcthanks 2 hours ago
- "Fit lean pension machines" - an uncomfortable prospect? wp.me/ppXQz-2Ni #pensionsthanks 2 hours ago
- Halftime on Sunday - so sweet! # ytfc #championship db.tt/PCYQGMXathanks 2 hours ago
- JacktheJouneyman - the PlayPen horse! wp.me/ppXQz-2IG via @henryhtapperthanks 5 hours ago
- The Pension Plowman Daily is out! paper.li/henryhtapper ▸ Top stories today via @ai_CIO @jonstapleton @Jimmer84thanks 10 hours ago
- "Fit lean pension machines" - an uncomfortable prospect? wp.me/ppXQz-2Ni #pensionsthanks 14 hours ago
- Replacing the financial salesman in the workplace. wp.me/ppXQz-2Ma via #pensionsthanks 14 hours ago
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- "Fit lean pension machines" - an uncomfortable prospect?
- The Regulator's brilliant auto-enrolment website.
- Shows what the little man can do
- Replacing the financial salesman in the workplace.
- A great day for Yeovil Town Football Club
- Who speaks for workplace pensions?
- Come on Yeovil!
- Tesco v Morrisons - a pension-enrolment showdown
- In the customer's shoes; Dan Norman on our fund fiduciaries.
- We are Yeovil!
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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
NAPF Presentation on “at retirment options”
DB de-risking presntation (ppt)
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Tag Archives: twitter
What award ceremonies are all about
The vast majority of the people who turn up for these events, do so because they’re frightened not to Continue reading
Posted in life insurance, Management, Music
Tagged ABBA, Arts, Award, Award ceremony, Company, Jimmy Carr, Site Awards, twitter
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There’s a lot we can learn from town planning
Many towns around the western world started out as Roman garrisons. Primitive stockades gave way to fortified settlements which attracted local residents who set up communities outside the fort’s walls. In time, the communities became protected by the Romans and the distinctions … Continue reading
Posted in auto-enrolment, pensions, town planning
Tagged China, Facebook, Gated community, Martin Lewis, Online Communities, Roman, Rome, twitter
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“Thought leadership” – perish the thought!
Anyone who markets themselves as a thought leader ought to shut up – (pension plowman 2013) I was tweeted the message “shut up” by a twitter robot yesterday which made me consider whether I should be annoying people with my … Continue reading
Posted in auto-enrolment, dc pensions, First Actuarial, leadership, pensions
Tagged Business, German, Leadership, Management, Management consulting, Mein Kampf, Thought leader, twitter
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Logins, passwords and all that tra la la!
How many times do you log in to a website a day? Just to get online this morning, I had to spend quarter of an hour telling Holiday Inn Express all about me. No doubt I have now subscribed to yet more mailings … Continue reading
Posted in Henry Tapper blog, Linkedin, pensions, social media
Tagged Holiday Inn Express, linkedin, Login, PHIL, ROBERT, social media, Trevor, twitter
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Spamta Claws coming to town
It took me 51 years to clock it , but Santa is a spammer. Spamta. as I will now call him has invaded my inbox at least ten times a day throughout advent sending me seasons greetings in the names … Continue reading
Posted in pensions
Tagged Christmas, Facebook, linkedin, Martin Lewis, Santa Claus, Spam, Tenerife, twitter
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Don’t fence me in!
I went to a presentation to a small group of intermediaries given by a major life company last week. The presentation explored how we could adopt social media in our work to help jointly build our businesses and make it … Continue reading
is LinkedIn making us lazy?
I’ve just had an interesting conversation with my brother Greg. Greg runs part of a recruitment firm. He is concerned that many of his team prefer to assess the quality of candidates using proxies for worth such as the number of … Continue reading
Posted in Linkedin
Tagged Business, Expert, Facebook, Klout, linkedin, Skill, social media, twitter
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The new journalists
We’re gearing up for the conference season whether we be journalists, delegates or the majority of us who get the highlights pumped at us through the media. Politics, business and journalism regard October as blanked out and historically those who … Continue reading
Posted in Facebook, Henry Tapper blog, Linkedin, mallowstreet, social media, twitter
Tagged Online Communities, Primark, Rob, Tom, Tom McPhail, twitter, Yeovil Town, Yeovil Town F.C.
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What’s a social media champion?
The news is that I’m up for an award as a social media champ – or or perhaps ”chump”. I’d be beating a food bunch if I won;- the Pensions Monkey Tom Mcphail, Mallowstreet, the dynamic golfing legend Gurjit Dehl and Madamoiselle Bighair - Ros Altmann. All … Continue reading
The kids are more right
We all move at different speeds; some of us use the web like our front room and share it with others without a second thought. Some of us see the web and the social sites with fear and loathing. I listened … Continue reading



