Category Archives: Popcorn Pensions

The Regulator offers employers help with selecting a workplace pension

Posted on August 3, 2013 by henry tapper

I thoroughly recommend this document to any employer.

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Let’s give pensions leaders the chance to lead

Posted on June 27, 2013 by henry tapper

I asked him whether he thought the Dutch pension system superior to the UK’s and he laughed “of course it is, it delivers better outcomes”. Continue reading →

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If it’s worth having- let’s have it now!

Posted on May 24, 2013 by henry tapper

News travels fast on the web but the news that it’s taken the BBC 5 years to work out that a lot of the technology they’d blown £100m on is available today for free, clearly travelled slowly. If a technology … Continue reading →

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A democratic way to improve DC investment.

Posted on May 22, 2013 by henry tapper

The responsibility for improving DC governance falls on all of us Continue reading →

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Do consumers benefit from risk-based pricing?

Posted on May 15, 2013 by henry tapper

may be wrong, the idea put up by John Raven, that a risk-based system delivers more may be right, but intuitively I sense we are moving to a more pooled approach to pricing. Continue reading →

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A momentous day for restoring confidence in UK pensions

Posted on May 11, 2013 by henry tapper

We cannot have confidence in a system where member’s pensions can be impacted by as much as 30% though advisory arbitrage. Continue reading →

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Get up! Stand up! For your pension rights!

Posted on May 9, 2013 by henry tapper

Governance on these schemes cannot be imposed by Government, it needs to happen organically – bottom up. Continue reading →

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Helping companies take decisions on pensions

Posted on April 23, 2013 by henry tapper

One of the first thing you are taught at sales school is to “sell not tell”. Selling people an idea is about planting and nurturing an idea, not marching customers to the check-out desk. When it comes to taking a … Continue reading →

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The sins of the past

Posted on April 22, 2013 by henry tapper

We have concentrated our thinking on how the financial services industry will cope with the new business strain of auto-enrolment. For many providers the bigger issue will be the impact on its existing business. Continue reading →

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Jack the Jouneyman; PlayPen nag up for the craic!

Posted on April 6, 2013 by henry tapper

Thanks to Eamonn O’Connor, JLT’s top man and our good friend for leasing us his horse. Continue reading →

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