Tag Archives: Steve Webb

Steve Webb and Mother’s Missing £Millions – Pension Playpen – Today!

Posted on September 2, 2022 by henry tapper

At today’s Pension PlayPen Coffee Morning event our former Pensions Minister, Sir Steve Webb, will be giving us an insight to a further Government debacle relating to Pensions and Benefits. A new campaign led by Sir Steve Webb has been launched … Continue reading →

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Can pension projections make sense of our savings?

Posted on June 5, 2022 by henry tapper

In a dignified article in the FT, Steve Webb  warns that the Financial Reporting Council’s plans to project pension returns based on how investments have done in the past comes with the real risk that ” the new statement figures … Continue reading →

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People’s income needs in retirement don’t fall away with age (IFS)

Posted on May 20, 2022 by henry tapper

Thanks to David Sturrock, Carl Emmerson and Carolyn Jones for their comments on the IFS’ excellent research  funded by IRS Savings consortium, which includes the ABI ACA, Canada Life, IA, MaPS, PLSA Particular thanks to Heidi Karjalainen who together with … Continue reading →

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Financial education? It needs more conviction than most of us can muster!

Posted on April 30, 2022 by henry tapper

People in the pensions industry are fond of using the phrase “financial education” as if they know the answer and those who aren’t doing what they want to do are financially illiterate.  This is hugely arrogant and largely wrong. People … Continue reading →

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GMP equalisation; will my DB transfer get a top-up?

Posted on March 15, 2022 by henry tapper

This blog is a Q&A from the Daily Mail’s”This is Money” online service . I love reading Steve Webb’s answers which are as authoritative and simple as Martin Lewis’. “I transferred my final salary pension to my private pension scheme … Continue reading →

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The value of Ellie’s pension saving

Posted on January 23, 2022 by henry tapper

I am not sure what John Ralfe had in mind when he tweeted Unless this self-employed 25 year old is paying 40% tax, they should be saving outside a pension, not inside (and possibly even if they are 40% taxayers) … Continue reading →

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Who pays the £200bn bill to protect our state pension?

Posted on December 20, 2021 by henry tapper

  First they suspended the triple lock The triple lock has been in place for over 10 years, here is now it has done so far. The Government afforded these increases out of revenues and have made successive promises to … Continue reading →

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Steve Webb’s real world where pensions are pensions.

Posted on December 4, 2021 by henry tapper

Sometimes pension specialists need reminding of what matters to non specialists-what we call (with some embarrassment)  “real people”. That’s what Steve Webb did on Thursday, speaking to around 250 PMI members  assembled virtually and in person in the City. This … Continue reading →

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If not us who? If not now -when? Let’s bring back pensions.

Posted on November 30, 2021 by henry tapper

As someone who has priced drawdown and annuities I can tell you the NPV, RoE, RoC and DPP are far more attractive on drawdown and asset management than they were on Open Market annuities. Why else do you think there … Continue reading →

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The Lords will go no further on the triple lock

Posted on November 17, 2021 by henry tapper

House of Lords has decided to go no further on the triple lock and the legislation has now passed. Pension rise in April 2022 will be 3.1%. — Steve Webb (@stevewebb1) November 16, 2021 We should be grateful to Sir … Continue reading →

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