Category Archives: Personality

The year pensions became real again

Posted on December 31, 2014 by henry tapper

  Pensions – real money Pension money is real money. It belongs to real people and is used to pay real bills, putting fuel into cars, buying flowers in supermarkets and paying for tickets to watch shows and sports matches. … Continue reading →

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Tis’ the season to get merry! Pension Play Pen Parties tonight!

Posted on December 4, 2014 by henry tapper

  Deck the halls with bells and Holly! Fancy a Carol this Christmas? BEHAVE! Holly and Carol have a particularly hard time at this time . They are decked and sung and  the butt of too many gags. All the best jobs go to … Continue reading →

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Pensions are yours to spend – but how do you get to the shops?

Posted on November 9, 2014 by henry tapper

Ours to spend! If I were to give you £100,000 and tell you that that was to bide you over to the end of your life you might initially be excited – you might then become apprehensive and you might … Continue reading →

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The language of trust..Pension Play Pen Lunch- Monday

Posted on November 2, 2014 by henry tapper

The Pension Play Pen lunch on Monday (Nov 3rd) will be led by Mark Scantlebury of Quietroom and will discuss the language of trust. The point of the Pension Play Pen Linked in group is to get nearly 6000 people … Continue reading →

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It’s all down to the management –

Posted on October 5, 2014 by henry tapper

    I’m watching the rain-soaked start of the Japanese Grand-Prix in Suzuka and marvelling at the organisation of a formula one team. What will get your driver first past the chequered flag. Engine- tyre management -DRS- Driver – race … Continue reading →

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“Educated beyond their intelligence”

Posted on September 8, 2014 by henry tapper

Denis Skinner’s recent gibe at Tory Ministers ,and George Osborne in particular, is brilliant (even if the phrase was coined by another). For me- it will be a defining epithet for the coalition- it sums up the best and worst … Continue reading →

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Flump!

Posted on August 12, 2014 by henry tapper

A new word was coined yesterday in the lexicon of pensionology – Flump! Credit must go to Will Robins of CityWire and Claire Trott of Talbot and Muir. @Claire_L_Trott and I are pioneering 'Flump' instead of UFPLS for the unsecured … Continue reading →

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Pension PlayPen needs your digits.

Posted on August 5, 2014 by henry tapper

  Digital marketing is something we’re having to learn as we go along. We’ve got to find 1,000,000 employers who don’t have a workplace pension and convince them of the importance of paying some attention to what their staff invest … Continue reading →

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Awards reward Pension PlayPen for a cracking year

Posted on July 1, 2014 by henry tapper

It was only a year ago when I, Andy ,Stella ,Martin, Steven,Guy and the lads from @firstactuarial signed the share register and launched http://www.pensionplaypen.com Within 12 months we have had nearly 100,000 visitors to our site; 329 companies use our … Continue reading →

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I wanna tell you a story

Posted on June 24, 2014 by henry tapper

Every picture tells a story, this blog is about storytelling. Some people don’t like stories, they think they’re tricky – like the photo. But good stories surprise you because they make you see things in a different way, they help … Continue reading →

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