Tag Archives: PLSA

Torsten and Nausicaa – we too want 2025 to be a year of decisive action.

Posted on February 18, 2025 by henry tapper

  The Pension Regulator’s CEO has written a blog which you can read here or you can read an edited version on Professional Pensions . Alternatively, you can read this blog and ask yourselves if the CEO’s  looking forward to … Continue reading →

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A responsible approach to IHT by pensions industry

Posted on January 23, 2025 by henry tapper

Proposals on IHT pension changes need ‘radical’ revisions, industry says Industry outlines alternative IHT/pension strategies as HMRC consultation closes Professional Pensions are running a story about attempts to amend the way  the Government to tax residual wealth pots destined for … Continue reading →

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Value pensions by what you get! (thx Tom and Joe)

Posted on December 27, 2024 by henry tapper

  Average LGPS pension is about 5k p.a – wouldn’t say that is particularly gold plated. If the Government were to move to DC it’d be reasonable to expect it would match larger employers – which often are 15% plus…. … Continue reading →

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Reflections on the PLSA Annual Conference

Posted on October 18, 2024 by henry tapper

MT heads of ⁦@UKMercer⁩ and ⁦@smartpensionuk⁩ . Who is the lion- who the lamb! #plsaannual24 pic.twitter.com/lLWa1VOtc0 — Henry Tapper (@henryhtapper) October 18, 2024 I was invited to the Conference as a freelance journalist as I have been , these past … Continue reading →

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Pension industry all at sea over pots and pensions.

Posted on September 25, 2024 by henry tapper

The Pensions Schemes Bill, announced in the King’s Speech 2024, will require pension schemes to offer retirement products, so people will have “a pension and not just a savings pot when they stop work”. This is not a quotation from … Continue reading →

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Keeping everybody sweet – Emma Douglas’ unique genius

Posted on April 1, 2024 by henry tapper

  I’ve enjoyed listening to Emma Douglas on the Daren and Nico pensions show. Increasingly I’m drifting away from the world of DC workplace pensions but Emma is a genuine enthusiast and here she shows  determination not to get sucked … Continue reading →

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PLSA – give your delegates their sessions back !

Posted on February 27, 2024 by henry tapper

This is my 20th year going to NAPF/PLSA conferences and during that time I have seen some pretty exciting debates. I remember one delegate , the Pension Manager of the MP’s scheme calling out the Chair of Stagecoach for homophobic … Continue reading →

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Why I am bound to play the fool at the PLSA conference

Posted on February 25, 2024 by henry tapper

In days of yore, English courts would hire a “fool” , to prick the conscience of a king. Lear’s fool is a good example, Feste is the melancholic fool who haunt’s Ilyria in Twelfth night, pictured above is Bottom , … Continue reading →

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The PLSA , Ground Rents and Harry Scoffin

Posted on February 14, 2024 by henry tapper

Something has gone wrong at the PLSA  and I shouldn’t be the only person worried about it. Let’s start this story with Harry Scoffin, young and brutally direct – Greta to the ground renters But what is this “industry” that … Continue reading →

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PLSA see retirement liabilities rise most for the squeezed middle

Posted on February 7, 2024 by henry tapper

If you are using the PLSA’s excellent Retirement Living Standards benchmarks in your guidance to DC savers, be ready to make immediate changes. Today they have published updated figures and as usual we owe it Jo Cumbo to be first … Continue reading →

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