Monthly Archives: April 2013

Everybody need standards

Posted on April 13, 2013 by henry tapper

Pensions should be as easy to buy as a can of baked beans Continue reading →

Posted in auto-enrolment, pension playpen, pensions, social media | Tagged Actuarial science, DWP, Education, first actuarial, pension, pension playpen, Pension Regulator, Steve Webb | 20 Comments

Starting a company

Posted on April 12, 2013 by henry tapper

Thanks to twitter and in particular Rory Cellan-Jones, the BBC’s ace technology commentator for finding this piece . Rory talks of the “constant, daily upheaval of emotions” of anyone who starts a company Millions of people start companies and few … Continue reading →

Posted in pension playpen, poetry, Start ups | Tagged BBC, Crowley, Dennis Crowley, Foursquare, Harry Potter, Om Malik, Rory Cellan-Jones, San Francisco | 2 Comments

“This Monty Python – is he one of ours?”

Posted on April 11, 2013 by henry tapper

There hasn’t been much of the Thatcher tribute Tsunami that I’ll remember, the eulogies are self-serving, the future’s more interesting than the past. But the story of the speech writer trying to explain the “dead parrot” sketch to Thatcher is … Continue reading →

Posted in middleware, monty python | Tagged Dead Parrot sketch, Eric Idle, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Monty Python, Payroll, Python, Supply chain | 10 Comments

Whatever we do, let’s do it together

Posted on April 9, 2013 by henry tapper

I have just read a Report by Demos which ends like this The shift in private retirement coverage from traditional pensions to individual retirement plans has made the goal of a comfortable retirement a risky, costly gamble. A fortunate few will … Continue reading →

Posted in annuity, CDC, David Pitt-Watson, dc pensions, pension playpen, pensions, Retirement | Tagged David Pitt-Watson, Dutch, Individual retirement account, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, Retirement, Risk, United States | 4 Comments

PlayPen votes for target date funds in action-packed lunch

Posted on April 8, 2013 by henry tapper

In one of the noisiest and most passionate lunches we’ve ever had the playpen voted 15-7-3 for TDFs vLifestyle with 3 spoilt votes from the “we don’t do default” gang. This was a lunch where we were pretty well split between … Continue reading →