Tag Archives: National Employment Savings Trust

So who gave Mark Carney the keys?

Posted on August 8, 2016 by henry tapper

Ros Altmann, along with many others is concerned that a side-effect of the measures announced to bounce our economy out of  Brexit blues, will be to require employers to pump money into pensions and not into jobs, research and building new … Continue reading →

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“Only rich people think small amounts don’t matter”

Posted on August 7, 2016 by henry tapper

That’s a quote from Debora Price and I’m making it a strap for whatever campaign I can cobble together to make Government Incentives happen for those who qualify for them , but can’t get them because their trustees don’t collect … Continue reading →

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The new politics of pensions

Posted on July 23, 2016 by henry tapper

  What has leaving the European Union some time in 2019 have to do with four new Ministers at the DWP and as many at the Treasury?   We currently have no shadow pension minister, Angela Rayner who became shadow … 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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The future of NEST

Posted on July 8, 2016 by henry tapper

  NEST has called for people and organisations to comment on what it should do when the initial surge of auto-enrolment is over. We have already seen rivals to Sage suggesting it remain circumscribed to its current limited function. We … Continue reading →

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Occupational means occupational – (what we can learn from scams)

Posted on July 6, 2016 by henry tapper

Scammers beware, we are aware! July is scams awareness month and the Citizens Advice Bureau is leading the charge. The Pensions Regulator is not far behind with its promotional campaign. The scorpion is never far away. It’s very much up … Continue reading →

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#PBUK ; pensions and the public

Posted on June 29, 2016 by henry tapper

  I’d walked through parliament square to get the Pension and Benefits show and thought how a few hours before Jeremy Corbyn had delighted the die-hards where I trod. I’d seen him defiant on my way back from work and … Continue reading →

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GO ROBO!

Posted on June 14, 2016 by henry tapper

The robots are here! But not in the Terminator sense. Think, rather, of Asimov’s creations. Or, for the less nerdy, Rosie from The Jetsons: benevolent machines, doing our hard work but better, faster and more reliably. Across almost all sectors, … Continue reading →

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If I ran a master trust…

Posted on June 7, 2016 by henry tapper

Not all of us run a master trust, though you might think it was Britain’s boom industry from the amount of press “master trust proliferation” has got. This blog is here for those who do, and for those who advise … Continue reading →

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The soft underbelly of master trusts

Posted on June 4, 2016 by henry tapper

  Many master trusts are absolutely rotten – they are not fit for purpose. Lots of advisers are using them as a back door way of bringing in commission, dressed up as high governance charges. The words of Barnett Waddingham’s … Continue reading →

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