Category Archives: Personality

“What’s expensive for a pension these days?”

Posted on March 31, 2013 by henry tapper

Most UK pension people may still agree with you and see 0.9% as cheap but not me. It might have been cheap in 2000 and it certainly isn’t today! Continue reading →

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Interesting….spin is self-defeating

Posted on March 28, 2013 by henry tapper

every time we say one thing and mean another, we are creating distrust in the person who we are talking or writing to Continue reading →

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Cometh the hour;- the Regulator gets its man

Posted on March 16, 2013 by henry tapper

I’m really pleased that they have chosen as their new Executive Director for DC – Andrew Warwick-Thompson Continue reading →

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“Three into two won’t go”- NO EXIT at Playpen lunch!

Posted on March 5, 2013 by henry tapper

Three into two won’t go – but I can say this was the hardest but most rewarding meeting I have yet chaired Continue reading →

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Johnson v Keating ; a pensions heavyweight title fight

Posted on February 4, 2013 by henry tapper

There are two documents sitting on my desktop this morning. The first is a paper by Con Keating. Con believes that the best way of providing pensions is collectively through large organisations who are able to offer and keep future … Continue reading →

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