Monthly Archives: June 2021

2-0 : a life framing evening

Posted on June 30, 2021 by henry tapper

I think my earliest memory is of watching the World Cup Final in 1966. I would have been four and I remember the room, the excitement and my Mum and Dad’s happiness. 55 years on, I am anticipating getting a … Continue reading →

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Workplace pensions – PFI 2.0?

Posted on June 28, 2021 by henry tapper

  The Daily Mail have published a heavily spun article that seems to have come from the Treasury with the title Chancellor Rishi Sunak to tap pensions for UK’s growth fund: Treasury draws up plan to help boost economy Regular … Continue reading →

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Covid Actuaries make sense of the current confusing picture

Posted on June 27, 2021 by henry tapper

                                                                                                      http://www.covid-arg.com Friday Report: Issue 46 By: John Roberts, Matt Fletcher, Dan Ryan & Adele Groyer COVID-19 Actuaries Response Group – Learn. Share. Educate. Influence. COVID-19 is still one of the hottest topics for scientific papers and articles. The … Continue reading →

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Are L&G, State Street and BlackRock too dominant in workplace pensions?

Posted on June 27, 2021 by henry tapper

The question has been bothering me for a while. While there are maverick allocations (Nest for instance use UBS for passive management), UK workplace pensions are dominated by the big three, who’s passive strategies are used by just about everybody … Continue reading →

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Goddard and Tapper team up with pensions “All Stars” to relaunch The Pension Playpen

Posted on June 26, 2021 by henry tapper

The Pension Playpen, an online community for pensions professionals, is to be relaunched by industry veterans Steve Goddard and Henry Tapper on 1st July. Originally founded by Tapper as a networking group in 2013, the revamped platform will offer a place … Continue reading →

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Have pension freedoms “benefited” the poor?

Posted on June 25, 2021 by henry tapper

Gareth Morgan has written to us via linked in to remind us his submission to the Work and Pensions Select Committee is now public . You can read it in full here   bit.ly/3d9PpyW There were 54 written submissions but only … Continue reading →

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TPR – publish your pension scheme register – or be damned!

Posted on June 24, 2021 by henry tapper

Following yesterday’s blog moaning at the Pensions Regulator for not getting its act together and publish a register of scheme URLs I have been informed of regulations changes that have the potential  to make this happen.  DWP’s climate governance regulations … Continue reading →

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Where are these 1200 schemes to be consolidated?

Posted on June 24, 2021 by henry tapper

When it comes to poor practice  “sunlight is the best disinfectant”. But the sun never shines on the whereabouts of occupational DC schemes, which are supposed to run their own websites for the benefit of all, but whose whereabouts on … Continue reading →

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Who picks up the cost of consolidating member pots?

Posted on June 23, 2021 by henry tapper

The key to answering the question is to establish the value chain; to my mind there are two immediate winners from transferring a member’s pot. The ceding employer (the scheme the member is leaving) The receiving scheme (the scheme the … Continue reading →

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“Further and faster”- the white heat of pension consolidation.

Posted on June 23, 2021 by henry tapper

UK to go “further and faster” with workplace #pension consolidation push. https://t.co/5uM7o0mgHN via @financialtimes — Josephine Cumbo (@JosephineCumbo) June 22, 2021 Yesterday, I wrote about the immediate impact of the DWP’s regulations on consolidation of occupational DC plans, today I’m … Continue reading →

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