Monthly Archives: October 2025

A fillip for pensions – mimicking Canada; Reeves pushes for UK investment

Posted on October 16, 2025 by henry tapper

I’m picking up on an FT story this morning as I have been following this news live through Mary and Greg McClymont.  You can read the story here   Rachel Reeves will launch an initiative next week with 20 of … Continue reading →

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Torsten v Webb – Hutton v Cumbo , regulators . legislators and 1600 delegates

Posted on October 16, 2025 by henry tapper

There were three plenaries on the middle day of the Pension UK conference. A debate and a panel session book casing the Pension Minister’s irascible follow up to his speech in the Spring to the PLSA. First Bell joshing with … Continue reading →

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Stamina sapping – vocation enhancing – triple day wonder in Mancy!

Posted on October 16, 2025 by henry tapper

Stamina is an oft disregarded virtue of a Pensions UK Conference. Delegates were to be found at 8 am in jogging clothes or business suits awaiting a run or a walk. I chose a wonder walk around the Hacienda, the … Continue reading →

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“Investing for an adequate retirement” – (what happens when you involve the audience)

Posted on October 15, 2025 by henry tapper

This is not an investment conference but that didn’t stop Jon Handford – a consultant  of Aon’s and Gareth Hayes  Ernst and Young’s assistant pension director discussing how E&Y had got where they are on investment and how the audience … Continue reading →

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Pensions UK Conference – met Pension Commission; an unlikely success

Posted on October 15, 2025 by henry tapper

Two important plenaries; the first a Pensions Commission for a New Age The message was in the title, this is not about finishing the job needed twenty years ago, Drake and Pearce made it clear that this is a new … Continue reading →

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What a Convention can miss but Richard Smith can deliver!

Posted on October 15, 2025 by henry tapper

Pension Playpen 14 Oct 2025 – Dashboards slides no GIF Richard Smith was a wonder yesterday morning The slides presented to us grabbed our attention but nothing like Richard’s enthusiasm for a project that frankly has no deadline for delivery … Continue reading →

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Pension Dashboard – Richard Smith – 10.30 today – free ticket inside

Posted on October 14, 2025 by henry tapper

  Richard’s coming to our coffee morning to repeat his triumphal sessions over the past five years. Richard is the genuine item and a friend to Pension PlayPen. He has agreed to attend at short notice and I hope we … Continue reading →

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Pension UK’s Conference – and a strategy for five years

Posted on October 14, 2025 by henry tapper

The Pension UK conference is starting today, the facts  for those who are going and those who are paying to go or for others to go, is summarised below. This is a big event. Pensions UK estimate that over 1600 … Continue reading →

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Steve Webb on contracting out of SERPS – John Greenwood look away

Posted on October 14, 2025 by henry tapper

Steve Webb gives us his view of contracting out. He ended it in 2016 after which there was nothing to contract out from. It is worth the three minutes with the former minister to remember just what a big part … Continue reading →

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Andrew Warwick-Thompson at rest

Posted on October 14, 2025 by henry tapper

Yesterday morning and through the lunchtime, we remembered in praise, Andrew Warwick-Thompson Paul went to my school in Dorset. Paul was the younger, there was a story of Clank who taught Latin and memories of tuck brought into the school … Continue reading →

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