Category Archives: twitter

Blogging at the NAPF Investment Conference

I’m not going to next week’s NAPF investment conference. However I hope to be almost as enthused by its debates as if I was.  That’s because I’m opening up http://www.henrytapper.com and the Pension Play Pen to anyone who cares to share … Continue reading

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“How to keep these blogging jonnies in line”

On-line reputations are hard-won and easily lost.               We are all prey to hackers who can range from the nuisance (mafia family on twitter) to the violently disruptive (where accounts are taken over as happened to … Continue reading

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“Twitter’s censorship is a grey box of shame, but not for twitter”

This excellent article is by Paul  Smalera. There’s been plenty of fancy talk about twitter’s “grey box” policy but this is the only balanced peice I’ve come across. Follow the links at the bottom if you want more.   Twitter’s … Continue reading

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10 infrastucture opportunities pension funds cannot ignore!

The Government has announced that it wants UK pension funds to invest in UK infrastructure. This week we saw a slice of Thames Water purchased by the Chinese. I live on the Thames and as dawn rises this morning I’m on “Junk Alert” on “the partially yellow river”. Continue reading

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Better York than Yeovil – #ytfc ousted by the Cod Army

it is hard supporting a minnow, touted as a “giant” savaged by the Cod Army Continue reading

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Pension power! Is your employer doing enough?

Most people who read articles about pensions earn their living from pensions – managing the benefits or the investments, setting the things up or closing the things down. Most of the people who benefit from pensions do not (sadly) read … Continue reading

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Ah- Vested Self Interest – that’s alright then!

We have a brace of fine headlines this week – Citywire report that Standard Life believe that ISAs should be part of the auto-enrolment mechanism and some SRI peddlar is reported on twitter extolling the need for auto-enrolment to include some seriously socially responsible investment. No … Continue reading

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NEST LIVE “Their hands in our pockets”

With this phrase Tim Jones, NEST’s CEO and presiding genius thanked his six principal suppliers for funding the drinks reception that concluded proceedings at NEST’s big bash. Freudian slip, deliberate tease or simply a slip of the tongue it initiated … Continue reading

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PPF II -opening the door for a better DC

We are where we are – the social contract has been decided… not compulsion but impulsion; impulsion  into a DC pensions model that relies on the markets to deliver a second tier of pensions. Our retirements will be funded from employer and employee contributions over a … Continue reading

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“Our weapon is the camera”

Perhaps the measure of political control in Libya is calibrated by fear.
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