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An Eiffely fun video from Richard Smith on the Pension Dashboard

Posted on October 13, 2026 by henry tapper

So Richard is putting together his best clips to provide an alternative view of the Pensions Conference, the one he (and I) would have liked to have gone to! Continue reading →

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Pension people- lets elevate our thinking to ‘consumer level’

Posted on September 25, 2026 by henry tapper

To state the bleeding obvious, we should be offering consumers a better retirement income  forecast than we do today. Continue reading →

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A pension’s autobiography on the dashboard!

Posted on September 13, 2026 by henry tapper

This is the whole of the life of a friend of mine. He/she’s a fan of the pension dashboard and you can see why. I love the “around the £54,142.86 per annum” . That’s not approximation – that feels like … Continue reading →

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The Dashboard is cleaning up our data – so we’ll see our retirement wages.

Posted on August 17, 2026 by henry tapper

It makes us think;-  the prospect of life with a pension dashboard! If Chris Curry is right, the dashboard has done part of its job- a year from starting. We don’t know when he’ll have it open to the public … Continue reading →

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Consistency needed for “expected income” from the pension dashboard.

Posted on August 10, 2026 by henry tapper

Here is the paragraph from DWP that could mean most to those using the Pension Dashboard (IMO) 20. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is working closely with the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) to explore the development of standardised … Continue reading →

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Richard Smith is Janus ; he looks forward and backwards.

Posted on August 7, 2026 by henry tapper

  Richard is nostalgic and far-seeing! Richard  is Janus, the god of beginnings, gates, transitions, time, duality, doorways, passages, frames, and endings. He is usually depicted as having a double-sided head. Janus presides over the beginning and ending of conflict, and … Continue reading →

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Richard Smith is Janus ; he looks forward and backwards.

Posted on August 7, 2026 by henry tapper

  Richard is nostalgic and far-seeing! Richard  is Janus, the god of beginnings, gates, transitions, time, duality, doorways, passages, frames, and endings. He is usually depicted as having a double-sided head. Janus presides over the beginning and ending of conflict, and … Continue reading →

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The Pension Dashboard’s going well but it needs to agree this word “pension”.

Posted on July 3, 2026 by henry tapper

Richard Smith is at the centre of any conversation about Pensions Dashboard(s). You don’t have to click through to see the video. The Pensions Dashboard  doesn’t answer the kind of questions people should have. It shouldn’t use delusional simplicity. Five … Continue reading →

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Why aren’t we all pension millionaires?

Posted on June 4, 2026 by henry tapper

While an excellent discussion of how to improve the income people get from saving for a pension was taking place with Jonathan Stapleton, a range of commentators were lining up to bemoan the ignorance of the public. The Pensions UK … Continue reading →

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When can our retirement wage cut be displayed on our phone?

Posted on June 3, 2026 by henry tapper

Kevin Peachey writes a sad article in the BBC about our retirement prospects. Richard Smith has a further  point to make;  he makes it very well! I’ve reported the Pensions UK report from the perspective of a well off FT … Continue reading →

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