Monthly Archives: August 2025

London’s musical Carnival – free and brilliant – with a pension supremo!

Posted on August 25, 2025 by henry tapper

  I am getting a bit of gip for being into pensions and spending the bank holiday weekend in West London at the Carnival. Big Zuu, a longtime friend to pensions was also there. Let’s not count pensions out of … Continue reading →

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The voice of the “wrinkly moaner” Pension PlayPen has a purpose!

Posted on August 25, 2025 by henry tapper

My friend Andy Young (a very young 76) tells me that youngsters in Government have no regard for the voice of “the wrinkly moaners” who participate in Pension PlayPen discussions. Pension Oldie is no doubt included, so today’s two contributors … Continue reading →

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Pension Oldie on the Pension Commission

Posted on August 24, 2025 by henry tapper

I am bound by a promise not to mention Pension Oldie’s identity and I won’t. I can say that he comes at this from an employer’s perspective and that he wants to make a contribution to Pension Playpen’s submission to … Continue reading →

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Is Freedom going to make us rethink retirement – Damion?

Posted on August 24, 2025 by henry tapper

I am intrigued by what Damion is trying to do as so far I have read a lot of statements but have yet to have much to get my teeth into. Here is a recent one about how the press … Continue reading →

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The house – get rich slow with nothing to pay in tax?

Posted on August 24, 2025 by henry tapper

The Government’s conversation with the newspapers the elderly and wealth read is interesting. The elderly and the wealthy should know that they are going to get it in taxation so that the Chancellor can manage her books and encourage growth … Continue reading →

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Are insurance companies getting it easy when taking on our pensions?

Posted on August 24, 2025 by henry tapper

  Pensions Oldie argues that risk management in the pensions world is radically different to that in insurance. Responding to an article where insurers themselves complain about the arrival of short term private equity money he comments. I don’t have … Continue reading →

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Aussie solutions to “pensions” are based on wealth management

Posted on August 23, 2025 by henry tapper

I’m interested in the Australian system of rating retirement funds and have looked at the owners of Epic Retirement’s Chant West – the organisation delivering Tick, it’s system to assess what we’d call “pensions”. The ownership is with FE fundinfo. … Continue reading →

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Epic Retirement? Bec Wilson’s Tick means Value for Money

Posted on August 23, 2025 by henry tapper

I’ve been speaking with Bec Wilson , who says she provides Edutainment, I like the sound of it. She’s speaking at the Pension UK October Conference. That will be knock-out She wants Australians who are a little more involved with … Continue reading →

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Defaults must be brutal- people who get defaulted say “no” to choice- TPR

Posted on August 23, 2025 by henry tapper

TPR and FCA have done a joint podcast. Listening to “Guided retirement and helping savers make the right decisions” at https://t.co/JotfjdxaYE — Henry Tapper (@henryhtapper) August 23, 2025 Patrick Coyne, Interim Director of Pensions Reform at TPR, and Nike Trost, … Continue reading →

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Can USS DB pension benefits decrease by paying more?

Posted on August 23, 2025 by henry tapper

Surely not, but… astonishingly: yes. This is because when USS scheme members cease service on any day other than 31 March, USS applies an unusual and little-known mechanism of revaluation. Instead of granting revaluation in line with the “USS standard … Continue reading →

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