Tag Archives: Self-invested personal pension

Get up! Stand up! For your pension rights!

Posted on May 9, 2013 by henry tapper

Governance on these schemes cannot be imposed by Government, it needs to happen organically – bottom up. Continue reading →

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Better-buying makes auto-enrolment work

Posted on March 25, 2013 by henry tapper

The promise of “Wealth at work” has disguised the paucity of the pension outcomes when work finishes. Continue reading →

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It’s a wrap trap – but who’s been caught?

Posted on February 9, 2013 by henry tapper

If you thought you were sick of pensions, imagine  the nausea of the life company CEO. If you are such a beast and reading this, you are probably are American or European and your company brought into the UK a few years back … Continue reading →

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It’s charges not contributions that are on the “race to the bottom”!

Posted on December 31, 2012 by henry tapper

I’ve been reviewing the 2013 charging options available to advisers using Scottish Widows – “Corporate Pensions; RDR and charging shape options”. The document gives advisers numerous options to pass on fees to members of their workplace pension plans. I wonder whether … Continue reading →

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Right direction – wrong speed! Defining a “good” workplace pension.

Posted on December 8, 2012 by henry tapper

I like the rhetoric, what the DWP and tPR are saying is going in the right direction, I hope they can keep their foot to the floor so that companies and trustees staging next year can get it right first time. Continue reading →

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Time to get tough on “dodgy” pensions – the Regulator speaks

Posted on December 5, 2012 by henry tapper

Regular readers will know that I have for a few months been expecting and calling for a strengthening of the DWP’s stance on what makes for “good” and what kinds of pension scheme should Qualify for auto-enrolment. I did not … Continue reading →

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The New Dawn Fades (for IFAs)

Posted on September 2, 2012 by henry tapper

For twenty five years we have been sold the need for independent financial advice. I was an IFA once and never for a moment reckoned I was offering independent advice – one product looked pretty much like another and if product … Continue reading →

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DC road testing – August Play Pen Pension lunch

Posted on August 7, 2012 by henry tapper

It’s come to a pretty pass when a man can walk into a room full of pensions people , ask a question and not get an answer for the fear of the advisers. When our good colleague , a company secretary … Continue reading →

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Is Steve Webb at war with personal pensions?

Posted on July 7, 2012 by henry tapper

I know a lot of people who like managing their money and study the fund pages of the newspapers as I study the form pages of the Racing Post. For them the Self Invested Personal Pension, the services of a … Continue reading →

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Time for a “4G” Pensions auction?

Posted on June 17, 2012 by henry tapper

If you want to have a mobile phone company you need a 3G licence which costs money. The Government made a lot of money from selling the use of our 3G radio waves to Vodafone and the like and are set to … Continue reading →

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