Monthly Archives: March 2025

Are older men choosing to behave better or being taught by wives?

Posted on March 19, 2025 by henry tapper

Our Covid friend, Stuart McDonald is back with better news (especially for men). Men may be choosing to live better or it may be that women are teaching them how to look after themselves. I would like to think it’s … Continue reading →

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Today – Bobby smiles over Dan Burn and focuses on PMI replay!

Posted on March 18, 2025 by henry tapper

It’s good to see Bobby still smiling after Liverpool went down to Dan Burn and his fellow Geordies yesterday. He doesn’t give a toffee for his Liverpool neighbours! REMINDER 🟣 Pension PlayPen PMI Conference 2025 🔵 Post Match Analysis – … Continue reading →

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Post match analysis of PMI Conference with Bobby Riddaway

Posted on March 17, 2025 by henry tapper

It’s good to see Bobby still smiling after Liverpool went down to Dan Burn and his fellow Geordies yesterday. REMINDER 🟣 Pension PlayPen PMI Conference 2025 🔵 Post Match Analysis – key themes & take-aways (CPD included) Tuesday March 18th, … Continue reading →

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Born in Blyth , honed in Yeovil , climbing the steps at Wembley

Posted on March 17, 2025 by henry tapper

Dan Burn scored with a great header that sent Newcastle up the steps of Wembley to receive its first major cup in 70 years. Yeovil has only a small part in his journey to this achievement but to Yeovil fans, … Continue reading →

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Get on the “Smith Express”

Posted on March 17, 2025 by henry tapper

Samantha is a sharp journalist who worked flat out last week, I know, I watched her the few times I was in the press room. She also found time to collar Richard Smith and this is what she wrote in … Continue reading →

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The UK National Wealth Fund pensions are too scared to touch!

Posted on March 17, 2025 by henry tapper

  At the PLSA Conference , I asked a question of key trustees and investment decisions who were discussing whether risk should be taken into the investment strategies of their pension funds (DB and DC). The question arose in an … Continue reading →

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The value for money that comes from scale

Posted on March 16, 2025 by henry tapper

One of the things I agree with Torsten Bell is that the value we get from the investment of our money is not measured by the cost of the management but by the returns we get from the management. Inevitably … Continue reading →

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If pension funds cannot take risk – who can?

Posted on March 16, 2025 by henry tapper

Of course Ian Brown is right and Mary McDougall has done well to get this published by the FT. The feeble bleating of other journalists and of those still living in a paradigm of “de-risking” have not got the message. … Continue reading →

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Competition will not drive good funded pensions; that’s over.

Posted on March 16, 2025 by henry tapper

Waking up to a new pensions world I am sorry to read arguments on social media and in Pension Age lamenting the loss of the competition we have today. The mess of GPPs, single employer DC schemes and the majority … Continue reading →

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Pension contribution cuts from local councils: – MHCLG are not happy!

Posted on March 15, 2025 by henry tapper

  MHCLG to tighten rules on pension contribution cuts 14 March 2025 By Martin George An extraordinary  story comes from Mr George who tells us that Government is to add to regulation and stop councils exercising their right to raise or drop … Continue reading →

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