Historian Joseph S Moore's book, "How To Get Rich The American Way", challenges these illustrations of 200-year compounding, Henry. The…
The article link you posted simply goes to my alma mater's website, the Adam Smith Business School at University of…
Yes Derek, I gave the quotation origin in the second post. The U.K. is not always as united and the…
Your quote, John, is from an essay "This is why UK living standards are struggling to improve", published today in…
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A tale of adventure that has kept me quiet!
I have had a marvelous adventure involving a seizure, a fall, the arrival of the police and ambulance, an airlift by helicopter from Eton to Oxford’s Radcliffe hospital and 48 hours recovery in the arms of the NHS. Continue reading
An Eiffely fun video from Richard Smith on the Pension Dashboard
So Richard is putting together his best clips to provide an alternative view of the Pensions Conference, the one he (and I) would have liked to have gone to! Continue reading
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Tagged Conference, Dashboard, henry tapper, Pension UK, Pensions, Pensions Dashboard, Richard Smith
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Your Pension Needs an Effectiveness Screen using Five Simple Questions
If you’re saving into a workplace pension, you’ll have no idea whether your retirement savings are being managed well or badly. The costs might be reasonable or extortionate. The investment strategy might be serving your interests or someone else’s. Your … Continue reading
CDC’s been declared unfair; we say it’s up to 60% fairer for everyone!
This article, written by my colleague Chris Burford and me is a defence of CDC from accusations that it simply redistributes the same amount of money away from one group (the young) to another (the old). Our argument is that … Continue reading
Do you really think CDC folk haven’t thought through unfairness?
I don’t trust this headline; it repeats an unfair criticism of UMES “whole of life” CDC, confusing it with the kind of CDC Royal Mail are using. This is not to criticise the Royal Mail CDC which works brilliantly . … Continue reading
The Lords and the Pension Schemes Bill – the game is on for pension surplus!
This comment was fed into my mail yesterday evening by someone who’d watched the debate in the House of Lords about the choices facing trustees and employers with defined benefit pension plans they are responsible for. Re the Lords and … Continue reading
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Tagged Bryn Davies, henry tapper, House of Lords, Jiohn Hamilton, LDI, Ros Altmann, Surplus, William McGrath
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Millions need us to deliver on CDC by 2027 ; here’s why- here’s how!
Many of us (the three in the picture especially) have been waiting over a decade for a CDC plan to run and to be in. The three of us were at The CDC Forum CIC event on Wednesday when the … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrian Boulding, CDC, Chris Bunford, henry tapper, pension playpen, Pensions
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Why should we build a “disposable” pension system?
This is an argument I am used to and it’s not one that I am comfortable to leave alone. We built a health system, a teaching system and a police and fire brigade to last and we should do the … Continue reading
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Tagged Argument, CDC, Closure, DB, henry tapper, Pension Oldie, ppf, PPF 7800
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PENSION RISK TRANSFER INDUSTRY – Push Back and Critique
This paper has been sent to Pension PlayPen to accompany the presentation given by William McGrath and Con Keating on Tuesday 2nd September. The video and slides of this presentation are available on this link. This is the final piece … Continue reading
There’s only two Henry Tappers! (out of 800m active users of Linked in!)
It is difficult to get out of Microsoft (owners of Linkedin) how many active users there are. John Espirian reckons there are just under 800m “active” but 1.1 billion accounts. A lot (300m) of dead people, people on more than … Continue reading
Such an important topic! Students need skills that prepare them for real-world challenges.