Tag Archives: Transparency

Value assessments – no answers without questions!

Posted on April 24, 2021 by henry tapper

Fund boards not changing tack on performance in value assessments despite backlash Fact not spin When it comes to performance reporting, investors want fact not spin. They want to be told facts about what they get out of an investment … Continue reading →

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Opperman; “let people see the value providers are giving them”

Posted on January 2, 2021 by henry tapper

  “Pensions play a vital role in shaping the financial security of the nation and our commitment to net zero by 2050” So Guy Opperman opens the second of his end of year blogs in the pension press (this time … Continue reading →

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“In pensions we trust” – when our data is trusty!

Posted on December 5, 2020 by henry tapper

Yesterday I talked about how we can  performance analysis of individual pension pots to sense check the quality of data. The idea is to make sure that once contributions reach the pension provider, they are properly recorded and people can … Continue reading →

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All party parliamentary group on pension scams takes shape

Posted on September 8, 2020 by henry tapper

      Well done Andy Agethangelou and the Transparency Task Force for establishing an APPG to deal with pension scams. At a time when personal and financial vulnerability is high, attention to the threats to our pensions is welcome. … Continue reading →

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Taking someone else’s numbers for it. The shortcomings of AoVs.

Posted on August 19, 2020 by henry tapper

  I suffer from pension dreams, these wake me up at odd hours of the morning with questions that I cannot answer. This morning’s question was put to me by someone who bought a pension savings plan from me when … Continue reading →

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Segregated mandates – a club for large pension schemes only

Posted on June 15, 2020 by henry tapper

With a few exceptions, most pension schemes do not go overboard with the number of asset management products they use.   Having worked with some super-large, super-complex pooled schemes and fiduciary managers, I can understand at least one reason. Lots … Continue reading →

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Not all asset managers are created equal

Posted on June 12, 2020 by henry tapper

This is the second of ten articles written by Chris Sier which were originally published in Pension Expert. The original can be found here and is republished with the kind permission of the editor In the first piece of this … Continue reading →

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Invest to change the world! #plsainvest20

Posted on March 14, 2020 by henry tapper

  Investment has a PR problem. We do not aspire to be investors (no matter what Sid said). Indeed we (as in those who don’t normally go to investment conferences) think investment people arrogant, aloof and often downright crooked. A … Continue reading →

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Investment; Nobody’s sharing your pain but you.

Posted on March 7, 2020 by henry tapper

“Everyone wants to know you when the market’s rising, but when it falls, you’re on your own”. That’s the comment of one of my friends who’s been trying to talk with his wealth manager over the past week. Right….that’s it … Continue reading →

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Mr Field – you want a common measure for value for money? I’ve got one!

Posted on August 6, 2019 by henry tapper

In the Work and Pension Select Committee’s report on pension transparency, one demand has caught the imagination of the pension community You can read Kim Kaveh’s excellent article here. Professional Pensions ran the question on its Pension Buzz survey and … Continue reading →

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