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“We want freedom and choice and we want simplification too”.
Pensions. Tax. Benefits. Each over-complex. When combined: lethal. We shouldn’t blame pension freedoms for the mistakes caused by governments’ habit of making everything too complicated. We want freedom and choice and we want simplification too. — Stuart Fowler (@fowlerdrew) February … Continue reading
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CDC guarantees nothing! If that freaks you out – CDC is not for you!
It being early on a Sunday morning, the coots playing around Lady Lucy and a wind rustling through the willows, I’m minded to turn my mind yet again to John Ralfe’s queries on CDC. Ok clever clogs. 10 easy #CDC … Continue reading
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Is calling a CDC pension a “wage in retirement” dishonest?
I got home from a fine evening with David Byrne at the Apollo, to a surprising assault from John Ralfe. It’s not surprising to be verbally assaulted by John on Twitter, but it was surprising that John, who had been … Continue reading
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10 best read blog posts of 2017
In search order Why some transfer values are ridiculously high? 2017 was a year when the cash equivalent transfer value became fashionable again. When we look back at what CETVs have done to Defined Benefit pensions over the past 24 months, … Continue reading
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Posted in Blogging, Henry Tapper blog, pensions
Tagged Blog, blogger, CDC, DB, henry tapper, pensions, Technology
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3000 blog posts up!
At some point over the weekend I published my 3000th blog post. Time for celebration- no? Time for 500 words of reflection – yes! I think publishing stuff that might interest others is now an activity of daily living … Continue reading
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Posted in Blogging, journalism, pensions
Tagged Blog, henry tapper, pension playpen, Pension Plowman, pensions, WordPress
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It’s a kind of magic! The black and white of imagination.
If I could have set out to define the poles of theatrical experience, I couldn’t have done much better than to choose Kit Harington’s Dr Faustus and the Globe’s production of Midsummer Night’s Dream. First performed within a couple of … Continue reading
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Posted in Henry Tapper blog, pensions, Shakespeare
Tagged Andrew Marvell, Dr Faustus, Globe, henry tapper, Kit Harington, Marlow, Midsummer Night's Dream, pension, pensions, Shakespeare, the Garden, the Globe, Theatre
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Crowd-sourcing a solution to the net-pay pension problem.
The people who are losing out on Government contributions into their workplace pensions because their schemes work on net pay rather than “relief at source” are oblivious of this problem, they serve coffee in Costa, work in nursing homes and … Continue reading
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Posted in auto-enrolment, Blogging, journalism, NEST, now, Payroll, pension playpen, pensions, Pensions Regulator
Tagged Adrian Boulding, auto enrolment, DWP, henry tapper, Kate Upcraft, net-pay, Pensioins, pension, relief at source, Ros Altmann, Workie, workplace pension
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Is auto-enrolment any more than a tax?
Speaking in Birmingham last week, former pension minister Steve Webb, commented on how hard it will be to raise the bar on employer auto-enrolment contributions from the current 1% of band earnings to 3% "Anything to get AE pension contributions … Continue reading
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What can go wrong now? Pension Play Pen 2015 risk register
The Pension Play Pen London Lunch Group met for the 62nd consecutive month to establish a Pension Risk Register for the UK in 2015. This might be considered ambitious for an hour long session, not least as our conversation competed … Continue reading
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Posted in advice gap, pension playpen, pensions, Retirement
Tagged Axa Investment Managers, Bob Campion, Bob Ward, Charles Stanley, Charles Stanley David Rowley, Charlton Frank, David Rowley, Fiduciary Mangement, Friendly Pensions, henry tapper, LBG, LDI, Mark Scantlebury, Mark Yeates, pensions, Pensions Expert, Ralph Frank, Risk, Risk Register, Scotland, Stella Eastwood, Stephanie Condra
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Top ten blogs on www.henrytapper.com in 2014
Here are the top ten blogs by reads on this site in 2014. George Osborne ate my pension – a blog by Hilary Salt Why employers pay no attention to the pension DC isn’t working says Hymans Robertson- I … Continue reading
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Tagged Blog, Business, henry tapper, henrytapper, National Employment Savings Trust, pension, Pension new, pension playpen, pensions, Retirement
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