Tag Archives: Pension Regulator

Dashboards will test quality of service – and value for members.

Posted on June 27, 2022 by henry tapper

Thanks Paul McGlone for reminding the good people of Linked-in that “dashboard denial” is futile. He ends a pithy argument with an admission that while dashboards are coming , we don’t know quite when. Of course, none of that is … Continue reading →

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CDC – time to ask the audience?

Posted on January 31, 2022 by henry tapper

  When you bring a new product to market, you first test whether there is a gap into which it can fit. If nothing else, the FCA’s Retirement Income Study is showing that there is space in the market for … Continue reading →

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The prospect of fair, sufficient and sustainable pensions; miracle or mirage?

Posted on August 25, 2021 by henry tapper

In a very short time , Pension PlayPen’s coffee mornings have achieved a regular following of 100 or so pension professionals, keen to hear and share views on critical pension issues. Steve Goddard has assembled a group of Pension All … Continue reading →

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“The best use of our resources”

Posted on February 14, 2021 by henry tapper

  This article is from Dave Brooks ( @pensionsdave) ,Technical Director at Broadstone. It was originally published here. It is a good contribution to the debate which has raged on this blog.  The trickiest balancing act that The Pensions Regulator … Continue reading →

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A Minister Drinking the Regulator’s Kool-Aid – No Consolation

Posted on December 8, 2020 by henry tapper

An article by Con Keating The  preamble to a recent article in Professional Pensions by the Pensions Minister, Guy Opperman, read: ” In the fourth of a five-part series of articles for PP, pensions minister Guy Opperman sets out how … Continue reading →

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A DC code for the rich, not much for the poor

Posted on July 29, 2016 by henry tapper

    The Pension Regulator has published its new DC Code, a hefty tome in itself (38 pages). It has published a further six guides which collectively run to a further 130 pages. If you were to spend the rest … Continue reading →

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“Just because you’ve built it”..Some home truths about robo-advice.

Posted on July 17, 2016 by henry tapper

The problem with Alan and Gina Miller is they are right, and they say the things that the financial services industry don’t want to hear. Before the TTF was a gleam in our eye , they were proving we were … Continue reading →

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Playing the personality card

Posted on July 13, 2016 by henry tapper

Of all the financial myths that remain unchallenged, the myth of personality is least challenged and most lethal. For it allows the congregation of expert panels/committees/boards – stuffed with perceived “personality” to validate all manner of iniquities. For those personalities … Continue reading →

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All at sea! TPR’s “Trafalgar” for maritime and offshore workers.

Posted on January 13, 2016 by henry tapper

Well done Lesley Titcombe and hurrah for our best naval victory since Trafalgar! Continue reading →

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Ros Altmann’s first big political test

Posted on January 5, 2016 by henry tapper

The WASPI petition is now in the hands of a small group of parliamentarians who decide whether the petition’s 100,000 signatories have enough of a point to trigger a parliamentary debate. Large as 100,000 is, it is not so politically … Continue reading →

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