For younger readers, MIRAS was Mortgage Interest Relief at Source. A scheme allowing UK homeowners to receive tax relief on…
We bought our present house more than forty years ago. The newspapers all said "Buy as expensive a house as…
The RF approach is probably close to what Andy Burnham would like to happen, but the mood music at present…
The economic background is challenging and guidance can be found in the recent report The RF report’s key findings are:…
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Advertising UCIS on Linked In?
I have received an unsolicited email on Linked in I hope you are well. We have a limited opportunity for your client’s to invest in a UK Eco Park Corporate Bond for a 15 month period with a guaranteed interest payment … Continue reading
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Tagged Blog, blogger, Business, Financial services, Financial Services Authority, Government, linkedin, pensions, Retirement, SASS, Scam, SIPP
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The FCA and Social Media (Canute II)
The FCA have set out their policy on social media which concentrates on the use of Twitter. It is worth a read, if only to establish why the supervision of the internet is as feasible as Canute’s supervision of the … Continue reading
Posted in FCA, pensions, social media
Tagged Business, Employment, Facebook, Financial services, linkedin, pension playpen, pensions, social media, twitter
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Pension PlayPen needs your digits.
Digital marketing is something we’re having to learn as we go along. We’ve got to find 1,000,000 employers who don’t have a workplace pension and convince them of the importance of paying some attention to what their staff invest … Continue reading
Posted in Facebook, Linkedin, pension playpen, pensions, Personality, twitter
Tagged Business, dc pensions, Defined benefit pension plan, DWP, Employment, Financial Services Authority, Government, Investment management, Life annuity, linkedin, pension, Pension new, pension playpen, pensions, Politics, public sector, social media, Society
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Pensions are stopping us building houses and housing is stopping us buying pensions!
This was the 52nd pension play pen lunch and one of the best. Attended by a knowledgeable gang of social housing officers, pension consultants and a fair few bankers, the lunch group set out to answer the question “are pensions … Continue reading
Why clever people don’t do jargon
I think the best actuaries are hard to spot, you wouldn’t know they were actuaries. The same goes for the best investment managers. Last night I had dinner with Eve Finn and a table full of Legal & General … Continue reading
A race to the top?
We will not get this problem sorted out in a meeting room in the DWP, though the DWP can clear the decks and allow us to operate with a clean sheet of paper. Continue reading
Do linkedin endorsements do your head in?
You can’t stop someone from endorsing you, but you can opt out of having your endorsements show on your profile Continue reading
Posted in brand, leadership, Linkedin, Retirement
Tagged Business, corporate governance, corporate risk, Financial services, Linked in, linkedin, London, pension playpen, social media, Society, twitter
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Collective pensions – what the industry thinks
Many thanks to the wondrous J Cumbo, the FT, mallowstreet (and uncle Tom Cobley) Continue reading
Would you take your chance on a mastertrust?
It’s called proper choice and I’m all for GPPs and mastertrusts squaring up to each other and having the argument Continue reading
Posted in actuaries, auto-enrolment, brand, governance, pensions, Retirement
Tagged Aviva, Bus, Financial Services Authority, Grand National, Leyton, linkedin, Liverpool Street station, Paul Bannister
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Logins, passwords and all that tra la la!
How many times do you log in to a website a day? Just to get online this morning, I had to spend quarter of an hour telling Holiday Inn Express all about me. No doubt I have now subscribed to yet more mailings … Continue reading
Posted in Henry Tapper blog, Linkedin, pensions, social media
Tagged Holiday Inn Express, linkedin, Login, PHIL, ROBERT, social media, Trevor, twitter
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Yes - but particularly in terms of pensions we need to support existing employers and help them thrive and grow.…