Monthly Archives: December 2025

The boxing day match is not a one day test (nor for the Ashes!)

Posted on December 26, 2025 by henry tapper

Like many a good Brit I have been up half the night, it being a holiday today. I don’t care that we have lost the series,  this is a one-off which either side could win. So far both sides are … Continue reading →

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How’s your Christmas going?

Posted on December 25, 2025 by henry tapper

It’s a tradition to expect a lot of and not get very much on the big day. This could be proving true at Maison Tapper as our brilliant meal has been postponed because someone turned off the oven with the … Continue reading →

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Dorset men.

Posted on December 25, 2025 by henry tapper

Yesterday afternoon I was on the Cranborne Chase in bright sunshine. We broke our walk along the Shire Walk with a couple of dogs to look south and in the clarity of December afternoon sunshine we saw across Dorset to … Continue reading →

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Happy Christmas without TV?

Posted on December 25, 2025 by henry tapper

I am sitting in a house dominated by tradition, it has been my mother’s place since the late 1950s and is still lived in by her and her children. My early memories of family life were us gathering around the … Continue reading →

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Amazon is everywhere! (sing) “Christmas Eve” is ancient history

Posted on December 24, 2025 by henry tapper

Xmas is everywhere (Amazon Music Original – Eve),   Neither Christmas nor Eve are words that have much use to our marketing departments. Xmas is a good way to get the holiday and its spend to a wider incidence by … Continue reading →

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The peril of private market investments to purchasers of retail funds

Posted on December 24, 2025 by henry tapper

This article was first published by Robin and Mark here. Incentives Are Dangerously Aligned in Private Markets The Speculative Supply Chain is Operating at Full Capacity Mark Higgins, CFA, CFP Dec 23, 2025 “Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what … Continue reading →

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Is the industry ready for a clearer, more accessible, pensions dashboard?

Posted on December 24, 2025 by henry tapper

  Yesterday,  Pensions UK took the right step in publishing research it did in September with Yonder Consulting on over 2,000 randomly suggested “savers” hoping for a pension that would meet their later life needs. There is something important here, … Continue reading →

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With a CDC pension – you’re no target for support

Posted on December 23, 2025 by henry tapper

With a CDC pension – you’re no target for support I and a wide group of colleagues are considering becoming the proprietor of a CDC pension scheme that we make available to employers who agree with the Government that going … Continue reading →

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Our Stock Exchange has become a bargain takeover market for want of pension money.

Posted on December 23, 2025 by henry tapper

Yesterday I questioned why a financial giant a quarter of a century ago (Equitable Life) should be being split up between American finance houses so it can eat up more of our pension schemes and convert pensioner surpluses into secure … Continue reading →

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Britain’s problem is not just economics. It’s belief ; Pensions UK March 10-12

Posted on December 23, 2025 by henry tapper

Well Christmas is many things , but I wouldn’t expect you to think of it as a halfway point between the annual and investment conferences staged by the NAPF, PLSA  Pensions UK! But we have been hard at it some … Continue reading →

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