Tag Archives: politics

Opperman rides a grand national of a podcast

Posted on July 6, 2025 by henry tapper

There are no flies on Richard Smith, Opperman’s a dashboard man and promotable! # I am not sure how I feel about Guy Opperman as the dashboard dude, Richard Smith has earned that title…we’ll get to dashboards eventually but… But … Continue reading →

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Defending the defenceless is ethical; the money’s in my pension fund!

Posted on March 10, 2025 by henry tapper

The FT, like the Telegraph, are keen to talk up the adamant attitude of People’s Pension and Nest to run ethical funds that do not invest in defence stocks. This despite calls from 100 Labour MPs to increase fund investment … Continue reading →

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Pensions have never been more important for the lives we lead.

Posted on March 9, 2025 by henry tapper

I know that dashboard techies are bored by legal bores but we are at a point of political agenda with pensions that is critical not just to pensions but to the country and I am going to focus on a … Continue reading →

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The power of what we are.

Posted on February 4, 2025 by henry tapper

It is a shame that while we are trying to find ways to grow our economy thinking long-term (pension funded) we are fearing short term tariffs from the USA as if our financial futures depended on the whims of a … Continue reading →

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One thing got my goat on this. “Redirecting DB assets to DC”….

Posted on January 31, 2025 by henry tapper

My email’s contain a number of interesting missives. Here’s one I will post anony-mouse -ly. The mailer will probably be cross with me for compromising him/her – if you were at the said event, maybe you remember! I wasn’t. One … Continue reading →

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Field called our DB pensions “an economic miracle”….Reeves knows why

Posted on January 26, 2025 by henry tapper

  At 11.30 am on a Sunday morning, Mark Kleinman of Sky News disturbed the sermon with this news.  The Sky article was quickly followed by one from the FT, with Mary and George Parker referencing Sky’s coverage at 5pm … Continue reading →

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Today is for tomorrow, today we start again – VOTE

Posted on July 4, 2024 by henry tapper

Two hour before the polls open and I am sitting in my flat in the City of London waiting to vote. My eye is caught by an article in the FT – “How the Conservatives lost hold of the South” … Continue reading →

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“We stand on the threshold of a landmark election” – Chris Mason

Posted on July 3, 2024 by henry tapper

This is the headline the BBC’s Chris Mason gave to his pre-election blog which he told Newscast voters he thought up in the middle seat of a car careering around Britain following our political leaders. He told listeners to the … Continue reading →

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Pension tax-relief needs re-branding as “matching”.

Posted on June 23, 2024 by henry tapper

We are due after July 4th, a general review of pensions, which has got the big guns at the IFS excited and top gun- Steve Webb (ex IFS) very excited indeed. So excited that he has gone to press (FT … Continue reading →

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Tory’s phoney pension promise exposed by LCP

Posted on June 21, 2024 by henry tapper

This article appears in   i  this morning and is written by Deputy Money Editor Callum Mason.  I subscribe to   i and suggest you do too – by pressing this link. More than one in five pensioners would still pay tax … Continue reading →

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