Tag Archives: Pensions

No bear traps from the LTA abolition

Posted on April 16, 2024 by henry tapper

  My immediate reaction when reading the latest state of play on the Lifetime Allowance abolition was to wonder why anyone is going to get unduly worked up about it. There appear to be relatively few cliff edges for the … Continue reading →

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John Chilman – Running a big pension disruptively

Posted on April 15, 2024 by henry tapper

I managed all 73 minutes of Nico and Darren’s VFM podcast featuring John Chilman while sitting on a South West Train.  The podcast was more comfortable than the journey but both were too long! One of the “news story” in … Continue reading →

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Offshore scamming business – closer to home than you think.

Posted on April 13, 2024 by henry tapper

  Many of us have fond memories of Friends Provident. It ran the first accessible stewardship fund in the UK , fore-running environmental, social and governance issues. It was a quaker company with its roots in 18th century mutuality and … Continue reading →

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The importance of the state pension as “fair for all”- discuss.

Posted on April 12, 2024 by henry tapper

Despite trade union calls for the triple lock maintained and increases in the state pension age to be reversed, the Labour party is yet to commit to any policy on the state pension. At next week’s pension playpen coffee morning … Continue reading →

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Why do people sell their pensions for cash in hand?

Posted on April 10, 2024 by henry tapper

This is nothing very new about the research organised by People’s Partnership to assist their campaign to stop cash incentives being used to seduce savers into swapping cheap workplace pensions for expensive SIPPs. It would seem that pension companies,  like … Continue reading →

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Whatever became of inter-generational solidarity?

Posted on April 9, 2024 by henry tapper

Intergenerational solidarity is best understood within the context of shared expectations and obligations regarding the ageing of individuals and the succession of generations. This contract across generations and age groups represents the norms operating at the micro- and macro-levels of social … Continue reading →

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Pension Commission? Be careful what the industry asks for!

Posted on April 8, 2024 by henry tapper

Doesn’t the pensions industry already have a very strong consensus that people should give them more of their money to manage? Political parties already seem largely on board, so I’m not sure what a commission would be expected to do … Continue reading →

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Europe’s fastest growing pension community is on linked in!

Posted on April 6, 2024 by henry tapper

We are 16, going on 17 (thousand users) On Tuesday last week, posts on the AgeWage and Pension PlayPen linked in group were viewed over 11,000 times. The weekly total reads average 40,000 since the start of the year. The … Continue reading →

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The fine line between monetisation and exploitation

Posted on April 4, 2024 by henry tapper

  David Locke is the Director of Finance at The Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution (RABI). He is a member of our Pension PlayPen linked in group and he’s a widely respected commentator on pensions – in particular the financing of … Continue reading →

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1974 and all that – learnings from pension oldies.

Posted on April 4, 2024 by henry tapper

I don’t know how many of my readers were on the planet in 1974 , I’d just taken my 11+ and was wondering why my Dad had become a Liberal councillor. With Labour back in power, it was the first … Continue reading →

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