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Is Auto-Enrolment a busted flush? Pension Play Pen lunch Jan 2012

Posted on January 10, 2012 by henry tapper

The Play Pen sat down for the 26th time at the Counting House on Monday 9th Jan 2012-the first working Monday of the month. It concluded that their was life in auto-enrolment though enthusiasm for the project and for NEST … Continue reading →

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Small businesses wanting to avoid small pensions

Posted on October 17, 2011 by henry tapper

In September we sent out 80,000 e-mails to companies in the UK with between 5 and 100 staff, the sort of companies that will be obliged to auto-enrol their staff  between 2014 and 2015 and are today obliged to offer their staff a … Continue reading →

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When we make company pensions compulsory..

Posted on August 24, 2011 by henry tapper

My point is that the pensions industry has a once off opportunity to get it right, this is our London Olympics and while we need to have our heads down making sure the infrastructure to make this work is in place, we should take a little time out to celebrate the fact that this “new day” is but a year away (M &S will be auto-enroling this time next year).

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Do them a favour – give your older workers a hand!

Posted on July 30, 2011 by henry tapper

It is as if a bridge had been built without a ramp from bridge to shore . People have to make their way from bridgehead to safety using their own resources though the cost of completing the bridge is minimal relative to the benefit it would bring. Continue reading →

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Buy now while IFAs last?

Posted on July 17, 2011 by henry tapper

Commission comes at a cost and a cost that is rarely counted Continue reading →

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Could we find a truly independent financial adviser?

Posted on July 5, 2011 by henry tapper

The Playpen met for lunch as they do every first Monday of the month to discuss a question posed to us by Paul Bradshaw- serial entrepreneur and the inventor (according to Alan Smith) of the £50,000 pa PEP. In attendance Bill … Continue reading →

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Whose NEST is being feathered?

Posted on March 31, 2011 by henry tapper

In everyday speak- the early phase NEST default investment approach is patronising nonsense and its only value is to NEST and Government Continue reading →

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Wacky races, corporate governance and Mr Hayward’s boat.

Posted on July 27, 2010 by henry tapper

“Brand”,opined my former CEO, “is what we aspire to be, or at least to be seen as being”. I guess this is the actuarial equivalent of “corporate identity” which is the accounting version and refers to what you actually are. Continue reading →

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