Tag Archives: Tom Selby

Tom Selby’s sensible advice to the new Chancellor over tax-free cash

Posted on July 23, 2026 by henry tapper

We are twelve years on from the announcement we could spend our pensions as we liked. We thought that people cashing in their pensions was something that might happen in the early years and that over time encashment with its … Continue reading →

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The public’s bullshit detector caused the “pension pandemonium”.

Posted on October 25, 2022 by henry tapper

There were two quite separate dynamics to today’s Pension PlayPen coffee morning. Speaking on behalf of the millions of members of workplace pensions scared stiff by talk of a pension crisis was Tom Selby, head of retirement policy at AJ … Continue reading →

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“Are people that dumb?” Compulsion and dashboards.

Posted on September 3, 2018 by henry tapper

The FT are running a story about the “pensions industry” regrouping around Plan B and doing their own dashboard. There is indeed a conference in September about this and I’d urge you to go (I hope to contribute). There is … Continue reading →

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