Monthly Archives: September 2019

Is your pension due an upgrade?

Posted on September 22, 2019 by henry tapper

In the relentless pursuit of new business, insurance companies and other financial institutions involved in the commercial marketing of pensions , have focussed on the new customer or the existing customer increasing his or her savings. It’s not hard to … Continue reading →

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We shouldn’t lie to sleeping dogs

Posted on September 21, 2019 by henry tapper

Words can get over-used, colonised and emasculated. Transparency may be coming such a word. I think a better word, that ordinary people get – is “honesty”. I am not a fan of the phrase “to be honest” which usually precedes … Continue reading →

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Bunk? Actually it’s a grand idea

Posted on September 20, 2019 by henry tapper

My old school, Bryanston in Dorset, runs days when old lags like me can meet young bucks with bright ideas. A couple of years ago I went to a presentation by a firm called Bunk – whose founders , fresh … Continue reading →

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Lady Lucy – the pensioner; on the Thames

Posted on September 19, 2019 by henry tapper

Lady Lucy is a pensioner, she was built in 1946 by Osborne’s of Littlehampton and she has spent most of her life on the Thames. This summer, Kim Kaveh of Professional Pensions interviewed me aboard the boat and on the … Continue reading →

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Will the retirement you get – be the retirement you want?

Posted on September 19, 2019 by henry tapper

This morning I’m speaking on Radio Kent about why more people are working well into their late sixties, a fact established by some report which I assume has been offered the BBC (but not me – yet!). It should come … Continue reading →

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How to find that lost pension!

Posted on September 18, 2019 by henry tapper

  The DWP tell us that we’ll have lost 50m pension pots by 2050, unless we do better at tracking them down than we’re doing at the moment! There’s £20,000,000,000 of lost money in the pension system at the moment … Continue reading →

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The Con Keating take on value for money

Posted on September 18, 2019 by henry tapper

Towards a Value for Money metric The Work and Pensions committee’s paper “Pensions Costs and Transparency”, as well as the Editor of Professional Pensions have called for a commonly agreed definition of value for money for DC funds. Clearly costs … Continue reading →

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Pension’s “unknown unknowns”

Posted on September 18, 2019 by henry tapper

This one takes some beating for nerds interested in the nuts and bolts challenges of building a mass workplace #pensions system:https://t.co/vR638ugBgr — Gregg McClymont (@greggmcclymont) September 17, 2019 Gregg tweets a story run by the FT almost a year after … Continue reading →

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Con Keating asks “Does life-styling make sense?”

Posted on September 17, 2019 by henry tapper

  In the course of my recent work on value for money metrics, I have come across several schemes which apply life styling to older ages and many have argued that these strategies merit a benchmark which differs from the … Continue reading →

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Get to gnome your pension.

Posted on September 17, 2019 by henry tapper

I’m very pleased that my friends at the DWP have asked me to promote their new social media campaign designed for us to get to know our pensions. These clever people have sent me a link that allows me to … Continue reading →

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