Tag Archives: Financial

Statistics make financial sense of getting old- the start but not the end of planning

Posted on June 7, 2026 by henry tapper

My morning’s reading that ends where I begin, with the good news that British  readers are generally happy when they get to 65. Jonathan Guthrie concludes an article based on 10 statistics with this data from Government research. 10) 7.6 … Continue reading →

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Protecting the seller and the customer when finance is the product.

Posted on August 4, 2025 by henry tapper

Anyone who has sold financial products in the pension sector prior to 2012 will remember commissions negotiated between salesforces and product providers. Most of these commissions were discretionary. Once a payment had been agreed , it was possible to upgrade … Continue reading →

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Isn’t it time we thought of pensions as insurance (again)?

Posted on July 29, 2018 by henry tapper

  Yesterday, I wrote of the positive future that I saw for collective schemes, if they could rid themselves of the pernicious effects of financial economics. I based my arguments on my perceptions of the impact of mark to market … Continue reading →

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