Tag Archives: Edi Truell

What journey’s best in the pension end-game?

Posted on December 8, 2025 by henry tapper

I wanted this morning to explain a discussion that’s going on between experts about what has gone on between Stagecoach and Aberdeen over the Stagecoach pension trust. I couldn’t do that without explaining to a lot of people who think … Continue reading →

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Truell’s impact – restoring a vision for pensions.

Posted on April 26, 2025 by henry tapper

Prepared for a new era? I feel that the last five months of my life have been preparing me and the pension scheme I represent, Pension SuperHaven for a very different pension system. The very different pension system I believe … Continue reading →

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Pensions and Truell. Radio 4 – well worth a listen back

Posted on January 27, 2025 by henry tapper

I hadn’t expected to have to move my early morning meeting tomorrow , but I did  , to listen to Edi Truell bang on time on Radio 4. You should be able to find out hear Following Edi’s comments in … Continue reading →

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Outside the trains don’t run on time

Posted on September 27, 2024 by henry tapper

It was a joy to host a meeting yesterday of some 60 colleagues with a common interest in meeting the needs of ordinary people who want a pension from their workplace pension. We heard for openers from Guy Opperman and … Continue reading →

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What’s an offsite? – What an offsite!

Posted on September 4, 2024 by henry tapper

I may change the title to “what an offsite!” over the day but until this week I had never been on an offsite strategy day, unless you count those shonky sales conferences you used to go on because you’d “smashed … Continue reading →

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The Pension Schemes Bill ensures private pensions will continue to be paid.

Posted on July 18, 2024 by henry tapper

  The King’s speech, which laid out the new Labour government’s legislative priorities, contained details of a Pension Schemes Bill which would consolidate small pensions pots; test the value for money of schemes; oblige occupational pension schemes to offer new … Continue reading →

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CDC – what can it deliver? I’m at the IFOA today to find out.

Posted on May 10, 2024 by henry tapper

  I’m off to the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries this morning with certain friends to find out about the state of play for CDC in the UK. As readers know, I am a long-time fan of the aims of … Continue reading →

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Will workplace saving schemes offer DB pensions again?

Posted on April 27, 2024 by henry tapper

  For the past quarter of a century, offering defined benefit pension schemes has been the preserve of tax-payer backed organisations , a few quasi government organisations and not for profit organisations. Millions of people are still accruing in these … Continue reading →

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Can’t pensions clean our water and clear our waterways?

Posted on March 17, 2024 by henry tapper

Water is everywhere, as I write the Thames is flowing fast down to Romney Weir and beyond. Yesterday as  we walked  to Arbor Park, we passed the terminus of the Slough extension of the Grand Union Canal, the water in … Continue reading →

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Swiss vote themselves a Pension for Christmas!

Posted on March 4, 2024 by henry tapper

This article originally appeared on the BBC website (thanks to J Cumbo for highlighting it Swiss voters have given themselves an extra month’s pension each year – in a nationwide referendum focusing on living standards for the elderly. The government … Continue reading →

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