Tag Archives: God

God is on the side of the big batallions

Posted on March 15, 2021 by henry tapper

  Many readers will have joined their first company with the promise of a “company pension”. If you can admit that was before the turn of the last century, that typically meant a promise of a wage for life in … Continue reading →

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Meaninglessly big data.

Posted on January 29, 2015 by henry tapper

I don’t like this infographic, it just appeared on my twitter feed to attract me to an article that would lead me to the conclusion that I was helpless and needed the assistance of some organisation to create me a … Continue reading →

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Jack the Jouneyman; PlayPen nag up for the craic!

Posted on April 6, 2013 by henry tapper

Thanks to Eamonn O’Connor, JLT’s top man and our good friend for leasing us his horse. Continue reading →

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Unlearning the old things

Posted on September 27, 2012 by henry tapper

We had a statement from an insurer this morning justifying its position using sections of the Income and Corporation Tax Act (ICTA)1988. This legislation is now 24 years old and has been superseded by many other Acts, notably the Pension Acts of 2004 and … Continue reading →

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“Good Retirement Outcomes ” – pension babble?

Posted on September 18, 2012 by henry tapper

My friend David Harris got the great, the good and me in an upstairs room in Benjamin Franklin’s old house in Craven Street last night. We discussed what pensions would be like in 2020, my ideas are on this blog … Continue reading →

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Is God online?

Posted on August 19, 2012 by henry tapper

I went to Church last Sunday went today. The church in  Dorset where I was confirmed now has digital screen in the aisles which display the words to the banal nonsense that passes for modern hymns, the reverend is miked up and there … Continue reading →

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Blessed by God- a cracking weekend

Posted on April 17, 2011 by henry tapper

A couple of things happened this weekend which have touched me, they seem to be connected by football.
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The divine comedy (a pensions joke)

Posted on April 14, 2010 by henry tapper

“What’s going on , Regulator?” asked God. “Haven’t we got any of this lot into paradise yet?” Continue reading →

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I outsourced my pension fund to a Fiduciary Manager (but didn’t know it)

Posted on October 22, 2009 by henry tapper

I discovered I’d outsourced my personal pension fund to a Fiduciary Manager. So had all my colleagues, so had 90% of the 14,000 personal pension holders who are my clients and so had the trustees and sponsors of all the Schemes I’d been involved in at Zurich and Eagle Star Continue reading →

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