Monthly Archives: November 2012

Offshore payroll companies – a (pensions) scandal in the making?

Posted on November 5, 2012 by henry tapper

Last night’s documentary on @bbc5live has unearthed a potential pensions scandal that should have the Pension Regulator and the DWP springing to action. The problem is this. The Agencies that have supplied teachers and apparently social workers to (local) Government have been … Continue reading →

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This offshore manning agency is depriving 24,000 teachers of their pensions

Posted on November 4, 2012 by henry tapper

I wrote the first version of this article back in November 2012. At the time ISS was under investigation by BBC Radio 5, at least the offshore manning agency established in Sark was. Since then HMRC has been turning up the heat on … Continue reading →

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Don’t fence me in!

Posted on November 3, 2012 by henry tapper

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 →

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Is there a future for defined benefit pensions?

Posted on November 2, 2012 by henry tapper

The TUC has published a working paper written by my colleague Hilary Salt entitled “the future of defined benefit pensions provision” which is a very good read. You can reach it here. The wags among you may consider that you could … Continue reading →

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