Tag Archives: Data

Capita and their clients – there but for the grace of God…

Posted on May 2, 2023 by henry tapper

Spare a thought for Capita staff , spending much of the weekend working out what has been hacked from the three servers reportedly impacted. If you are a data controller, you probably depend on organisations such as Capita to manage … Continue reading →

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LCP finds partners to auto-cleanse pensions data

Posted on March 23, 2023 by henry tapper

LCP has clubbed up with Transunion, the credit checker and Digidentity the digital identity verifier to work out better ways to get scheme data ready for buy-out and/or display on pension dashboards. It is also pretty important in paying them! … Continue reading →

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C19 actuaries report on the ongoing toll Covid is taking on the nation’s health – bulletin 72

Posted on October 29, 2022 by henry tapper

                                                                                                                         http://www.covidactuaries.org Friday Report: Issue 72   By: Adele Groyer, John Roberts, Dan Ryan & Matt Fletcher Covid-19 Actuaries Response Group – Learn. Share. Educate. Influence.   Covid-19 is still among the most important health topics for scientific papers … Continue reading →

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Transparent data rumbles Johnson’s lie.

Posted on October 24, 2022 by henry tapper

Johnson’s grubby statement Boris Johnson’s statement that he wouldn’t be standing for PM against Rishi Sunak and Penny Mordaunt is too grubby to be printed. It is in effect a declaration of intent to stand as leader in two years … Continue reading →

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Pension Dashboards – data assured – privacy assured

Posted on May 20, 2022 by henry tapper

I attended a meeting for potential pension dashboard providers yesterday. I sensed a new confidence among the PDP team, especially from boss Chris Curry. For the first time I believed that the dashboards was going to happen and that when … Continue reading →

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15m have died from Covid – Covid ARG’s 66th report.

Posted on May 7, 2022 by henry tapper

Friday Report: Issue 66                                        www.covid-arg.com By: John Roberts, Adele Groyer and Matt Fletcher   COVID-19 Actuaries Response Group – Learn. Share. … Continue reading →

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Putting people in control of their pension data.

Posted on February 3, 2022 by henry tapper

At least one of my providers did that to me when I asked them to send my data to @henryhtapper at @agewage. Refused to do it and would only send to me to forward on. — alan chaplin (@achaplin71) February … Continue reading →

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Small DC schemes must be guided by data – not self interest.

Posted on June 22, 2021 by henry tapper

As flagged on this blog , the Government is turning the heat on workplace pensions to deliver. The raft of papers produced by the DWP culminate in  new regulations , The Occupational Pension Schemes (Administration, Investment, Charges and Governance) (Amendment) … Continue reading →

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Covid-ARG reports on vaccines-hesitancy and a BMI of 28,000

Posted on February 21, 2021 by henry tapper

Weekend Report: Issue 37 By Dan Ryan, John Roberts and Matt Fletcher COVID-ARG.COM COVID-19 Actuaries Response Group – Learn. Share. Educate. Influence. COVID-19 is still one of the hottest topics for scientific papers and articles. The COVID‑19 Actuaries Response Group … Continue reading →

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“In pensions we trust” – when our data is trusty!

Posted on December 5, 2020 by henry tapper

Yesterday I talked about how we can  performance analysis of individual pension pots to sense check the quality of data. The idea is to make sure that once contributions reach the pension provider, they are properly recorded and people can … Continue reading →

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