Monthly Archives: December 2025

What next for what was Scottish Equitable? Will Aegon UK end up more than legacy?

Posted on December 16, 2025 by henry tapper

NEXT and WAS don’t go well in the same sentence. Can Aegon really go anywhere but “legacy”? There are two matters in my mind. The first is how this impacts on Aegon’s clients. Aegon is what became of Scottish Equitable … Continue reading →

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Trustee pension consultations fill up the Christmas stocking.

Posted on December 16, 2025 by henry tapper

  It has two months since he announced an imminent consultation on what we should expect from pension trustees. While Torsten Bell has been busy getting a bill through , CDC going and a budget over the line, this document … Continue reading →

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Andrew Smith’s tough questions for John Hamilton of Stagecoach

Posted on December 16, 2025 by henry tapper

Most of the time I have little sympathy for the de-risking brigade who seem to think it their right to walk all over schemes trying to run on. Now one has got away – a big one – and there … Continue reading →

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John Hamilton’s Stagecoach deal – 10 months on from Melton Mowbray!

Posted on December 15, 2025 by henry tapper

In February of this year, I went to Melton Mowbray to hear John Hamilton speak to a  PLSA East Midlands meeting about what needed to happen in this country. This is a photograph of us late in the day waving … Continue reading →

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“No turning back from consistency on pension dashboards” – says Richard Smith

Posted on December 15, 2025 by henry tapper

Richard you are right. No turning back now on pension dashboards! It is of course more than pension dashboard’s consistency that is in question. If the projections for the pension we are going to get for pensions expected from DC … Continue reading →

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Workplace pension funds – no longer beginners at investment – let them past a charge cap.

Posted on December 15, 2025 by henry tapper

This from Jonathan Stapleton in a balanced article , offset by an unbalanced headline. It noted that, in January this year, it had set out almost 50 pro-growth measures – adding it had now delivered “the vast majority of these … Continue reading →

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The chances are you’re reading this – on linkedIn – gender biased (stats would say!)

Posted on December 14, 2025 by henry tapper

Yesterday, I wrote a post saying how much more adept I thought younger women were much more adept at using LinkedIn than older men (like me) I said they were better at doing it in “London” as I thought “LinkedIn” … Continue reading →

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Why the health of my staff matters to me now and tomorrow!

Posted on December 14, 2025 by henry tapper

Colin Haines is one of Britain’s brightest independent pension actuaries He cares about pensioners and those at work.  So should we. Thanks Colin. Employers can help Britain’s workplace’s Britain working. A working adult is also a saving employee. Eventually he … Continue reading →

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The Token will open up private markets for pensions benefiting pensioners

Posted on December 14, 2025 by henry tapper

I have recently posted about tokenification  work being done by  Smart and Mobius, Octopus to put investment administration on the blockchain. Now let’s look at a prospect that opens an investment of nautical infrastructure to institutional investors asd-sco-introduction-december-2025-1-pdffrom Henry Tapper … Continue reading →

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Playing a tiny violin badly for First Actuarial?

Posted on December 14, 2025 by henry tapper

I am not sure what this little video or a badly played under-sized violin is saying? Is it ironic or simply inept? Gallagher is an  insurance brokerage rather like Aon and Marsh Mac and Howden and Willis Towers Watson which … Continue reading →

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