Tag Archives: Helen Dean

“IF I was a Director “… how Nest can overhaul itself.

Posted on November 28, 2022 by henry tapper

  Nest is recruiting three non-executive directors to increase the diversity of its Board. This is an opportunity, 12 years in, for Nest to ask fundamental questions about how it can move itself and auto-enrolment along. Diversity of outlook I … Continue reading →

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Michael Johnson challenges the Nest Sidecar (Jars) project

Posted on December 17, 2020 by henry tapper

The Nest Sidecar project (now renamed “Jars”) has been sponsored by a number of leading financial services companies and some major employers  (including Timpsons and BT). This blog is an open letter to the Nest management from  Michael Johnson, in … Continue reading →

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“Make my Money Matter” launches Tuesday; here’s your invitation

Posted on June 28, 2020 by henry tapper

Make My Money Matter, spearheaded by Richard Curtis, Co-founder of Comic Relief, is launching a movement calling for the trillions of pounds invested in our UK pensions to build a better world – one that puts people and planet alongside profit. … Continue reading →

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Retirement’s also about debt

Posted on January 24, 2020 by henry tapper

If you look at the Trustee board for StepChange, Britain’s largest charity dealing with the impact of debt, you will see three people familiar to the pension community Sue Lewis (right) – now a trustee of People’s Pension and formerly … Continue reading →

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The pernicious effect of NEST’s market distortion

Posted on October 25, 2016 by henry tapper

Yesterday I wrote about the unsatisfactory outcome of an industry discussion with NEST. The PLSA debate on mastertrusts at their annual conference failed to properly engage with NEST’s ongoing role in the UK pensions market and the ambiguity of its … Continue reading →

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Wake up to the PPF!

Posted on July 22, 2016 by henry tapper

  It was good to oversleep and wake up not to the lark (metaphorical here in EC4), but to Alan Rubenstein purring about his Pension Protection Fund. Pension Protection Fund figures published yesterday show the lifeboat scheme has £4.1bn surplus and … Continue reading →

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NEST takes the strain.

Posted on March 24, 2016 by henry tapper

NEST have something to shout about and it’s not news. Like good background music, they’ve succeeded in being there but not getting noticed. They’ve gone about their business over the last three months increasing their participating employers from 40 to … Continue reading →

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Take TPAS’ women in pensions 2016 survey!

Posted on January 7, 2016 by henry tapper

The Pension Advisory each year gauge the changing relationship between women and pensions. This year’s survey is released today. Today is the day when women take the agenda back from men on pensions. Black: It is important to try and … Continue reading →

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Is NEST “preaching from the pulpit with its trousers round its ankles”?

Posted on December 28, 2015 by henry tapper

Is NEST preaching from the pulpit with its trousers round its ankles? Continue reading →

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Problems? Is AE technology an end or a means?

Posted on December 12, 2015 by henry tapper

It’s something of a joke in the Pension PlayPen that if anyone is going to break our systems and processes , it will be the Pension Plowman. I have an uncanny knack of finding weaknesses on our development site and … Continue reading →

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