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This time next year Rodney – we all could be pension millionaires

Posted on August 12, 2023 by henry tapper

How hard is it to build a £1m retirement nest egg? Find out below…  The Daily Mail and an investment manager from Brewin Dolphin have got the ONS to dig up information that suggests that someone in the UK has … Continue reading →

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“Is the fund industry morally bankrupt?”

Posted on January 9, 2020 by henry tapper

It is 80 years since the United States set down the Investment Act that established four principles on which fund governance sits. Fund governance refers to a system of checks and balances and work performed by the governing body (board) of … Continue reading →

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Financial advisors need better retirement products

Posted on August 17, 2015 by henry tapper

Better products that deliver what they say I had the pleasure of Chris Radford’s company over the weekend. Chris is a consultant to pension providers , a regular at our Pension lunches and someone who thinks about the way ordinary people … Continue reading →

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Hats off to Steve Webb for our new pensions system!

Posted on January 15, 2013 by henry tapper

It’s good to see the publication of the DWP’s white paper Security in Retirement – towards a new pension system. It announces an initiative first promoted by Frank Field in the late 1990s but thought then “unthinkable”;. While I agree with … Continue reading →

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Six for five pound, one pound fish

Posted on January 5, 2013 by henry tapper

Following brief employment at a pound shop, Muhammad Shahid Nazir, a Pakistani immigrant to the United Kingdom  from the town of Pattoki, Kasur in Punjab,  began work on a fish stall at Queen’s Market, Upton Park where his employer instructed him to … Continue reading →

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Rose Metcalf- dancing seafarer to the rescue.

Posted on January 16, 2012 by henry tapper

Did anyone hear the full interview on Radio Five Live this morning with Rose Metcalf? The 22-year-old dancer told of her night helping passengers, staff and herself off the stricken Costa Concordia with a poise and understatement that suggests she has rather more … Continue reading →

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That ETV debate in full

Posted on August 20, 2011 by henry tapper

Sometimes people’s comments on blogs are more interesting than the blog itself- this is certainly the case in a blog I wrote last week on “Enhanced Transfer Values” the thrust of which is that there are better ways to de-rsik defined benefit pension plans than by giving members cash bungs to transfer out theirguaranteed rights.
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There are better ways to de-risk than ETVs

Posted on August 18, 2011 by henry tapper

The only pension schemes which you cannot transfer out of are the Basic State Pension, State Second Pension and NEST (yes – odd that a DC plan is in that mix). Continue reading →

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Pension Playpen lunch- the new consensus

Posted on November 1, 2010 by henry tapper

Next lunch is Monday December 6th- same place but we’ll be doing a Christmas special. Continue reading →

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