Tag Archives: NEST

Nest’s getting the hang of partnerships that invest in private capital!

Posted on October 22, 2026 by henry tapper

Over the past few days, I’ve been thinking how pension schemes can use scale to Improve our wage in retirement Improve the economy and the pay for those working To say it like this makes for an easy way to … Continue reading →

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What’s there for Nest’s sales and marketing teams to do? Well quite a lot more actually!

Posted on October 21, 2026 by henry tapper

I’d like to see something that would make me excited about saving with Nest beyond some chirpy little birds… Continue reading →

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In a month I’m 65. I haven’t got a pension – just two pots – I’ve lost my trust!

Posted on October 18, 2026 by henry tapper

It is receiving my wage in retirement that will get back my trust. It is not providers connecting their systems! Continue reading →

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What our biggest pension funds are doing with infrastructure – train reading!

Posted on October 13, 2026 by henry tapper

I can think of worse ways to kick off the Conference than to read this report as you go up on the train to Liverpool. Continue reading →

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My Nest dashboard quotes me twice the “pot” my Pensions Dashboard shows

Posted on October 9, 2026 by henry tapper

We spend ages TALKING about adequacy, but poor systems make me wonder if we actually care? Talk is cheap, right? Continue reading →

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Make pensions easier for the self-employed with accessible, but not mandatory, saving (thanks SPP and Prospect))

Posted on September 24, 2026 by henry tapper

Simple and an excellent pension, Nest’s self-employed “sign up” option is under-promoted and under used. It needs to be improved for self-employed saving but this could be done. Continue reading →

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“My pension offer” – explaining CDC to a confused sceptic 12 years ago!

Posted on September 21, 2026 by henry tapper

This is a blog I published 12 years ago on 28th September 2014. It is now 12 years old and shows that the debate has been broadly the same for some time! Continue reading →

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Telling us accurately what we’ve built up as pension should be what the dashboard does

Posted on September 8, 2026 by henry tapper

Richard Smith is right in wishing to get engagement of people close to retirement. We want to know what is happening to our money which doesn’t grow like it does in the building society or bank but fluctuates as markets … Continue reading →

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Richard Smith is Janus ; he looks forward and backwards.

Posted on August 7, 2026 by henry tapper

  Richard is nostalgic and far-seeing! Richard  is Janus, the god of beginnings, gates, transitions, time, duality, doorways, passages, frames, and endings. He is usually depicted as having a double-sided head. Janus presides over the beginning and ending of conflict, and … Continue reading →

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Richard Smith is Janus ; he looks forward and backwards.

Posted on August 7, 2026 by henry tapper

  Richard is nostalgic and far-seeing! Richard  is Janus, the god of beginnings, gates, transitions, time, duality, doorways, passages, frames, and endings. He is usually depicted as having a double-sided head. Janus presides over the beginning and ending of conflict, and … Continue reading →

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