Category Archives: Popcorn Pensions

Is Steve Webb at war with personal pensions?

Posted on July 7, 2012 by henry tapper

I know a lot of people who like managing their money and study the fund pages of the newspapers as I study the form pages of the Racing Post. For them the Self Invested Personal Pension, the services of a … Continue reading →

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Pensions Bindweed- pretty and deadly

Posted on June 24, 2012 by henry tapper

Management is a carrot and stick affair. If you are managing a company  pension plan you can reward your pension manager with ongoing support or you can give it the sack. That’s  governance for you. But if you are sponsoring a … Continue reading →

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Japanese Knotweed – the spread of passive defaults.

Posted on June 23, 2012 by henry tapper

While investment consultants ponder the fifty shades of grey of diversification, I ponder just who , outside a small number of “experts” is prepared to take a decision on the default investment option of a company’s defined contribution pension scheme. This question … Continue reading →

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Is your company good to retire from?

Posted on May 7, 2012 by henry tapper

Is this a stupidly obvious or obviously stupid question? If you fall into the “stupidly obvious” camp you are one of a dwindling band of devotees of the paternalistic culture that believes that a lifetime’s work with an organsiation should be rewarded … Continue reading →

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Auto-enrolment ; winners and losers.

Posted on May 1, 2012 by henry tapper

Tesco doesn’t seem to be getting too much credit from the DB aficionados who have been perturbed by its attempts to push back retirement ages as part of the new deal.

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“I felt I’d helped”

Posted on March 31, 2012 by henry tapper

What I am most keen to do, is to make sure that the pride that drove the simple words “I felt I helped”, is remembered and used by the youngsters when times get tough again.

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Steve Webb’s good week

Posted on March 24, 2012 by henry tapper

Now anyone who can talk of a “regulatory regime which allows 1000 flowers to bloom” has got to have been taking the happy pills. Continue reading →

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Who pays for a register of pensions?

Posted on March 6, 2012 by henry tapper

I’ve been writing this week about the small pension policies that most of us have “lying around” in some drawer or other. Maybe they came from well intentioned pension savings plans that just couldn’t be kept up, maybe from company DC schemes that … Continue reading →

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Whatever happened to “stakeholder economics”?

Posted on February 27, 2012 by henry tapper

When Blair swept to power in 1997, Will Hutton‘s vision of a stakeholder economy was central to New Labour‘s vision. While the idealism of those years is now derided, I prefer it to the negativity of today’s commentary. Listening to … Continue reading →

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Blogging all over the world (cheer up!)

Posted on February 12, 2012 by henry tapper

The thing about Rocking All Over the World is its dumb enthusiasm. And I like it , and I like it and I like it and  like – here we go -rocking all over the world. Dumb enthusiasm isn’t easy. Most people can’t do it but … Continue reading →

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