Everything that requires to be paid for the next 20-50 years requires investment. Non-investment types especially actuaries and other managerialists…
I don't know why you are all getting excited. In reality the likelihood is that the govt will cut pensions…
How far do you want to stretch the principle that compos mentis adults should not be treated as moral agents…
You're right, and Treasury have previous on this. Examples ... Netting at departmental / spending-review level Barnett is applied to…
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Pension Playpen to relaunch as a Fintech
Pension campaign and networking group The Pension Playpen – founded by pension expert Henry Tapper – is to relaunch in February as a fintech company aimed at the pensions industry. The Playpen will provide networking and comment platforms as well … Continue reading
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Tagged FinTech, henry tapper, pension playpen
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Payroll + Pensions = Value for money! Register here for the event of next week
REGISTER HERE This is going to be by far and away the best webinar you could watch next week REGISTER HERE Hosted with our thanks by the CIPP For a sneak peak of payroll’s best kept secret – … Continue reading
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Tagged #pensions, AgeWage, henry tapper, Michelle Sutton, Payroll, Pensions, reward, Suez
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58 years young – the role of crusties in the workforce
I am male, stale and pale – a 58 year old crusty – past his sell by date and blocking young , ethnically diverse and female colleagues from achieving board level positions. Put like that , it is small wonder … Continue reading
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Tagged AgeWage, henry tapper, Pension Plowman, pensions
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The financing of DC
As anticipated (in blogging), yesterday’s article on CDC attracted some vitriol, not just from my friend Con Keating, but from the inter-web of things. The idea that a #cdc plan could smooth outcones by borrowing is a load of #bollocks … Continue reading
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Tagged #bollocks, Adrian Boulding, CDC, dc, henry tapper, John Ralfe
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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
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
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
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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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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Tagged Blog, henry tapper, pension playpen, Pension Plowman, pensions, WordPress
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I believe you are absolutely right and its polical expediancy to rob us of our State Pension. ounce again. That…