Tag Archives: trust

Benefits will be restored at USS but will common sense?

Posted on April 18, 2023 by henry tapper

UCU members in their tens of thousands have voted overwhelmingly to move forward with pension proposals agreed with employers which will pave the way for the restoration of benefits. When we launched our pensions dispute, university vice chancellors doubted us, … Continue reading →

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Can private markets improve DC outcomes? – We must trust our Trustees.

Posted on December 14, 2022 by henry tapper

Private market investments are dark horses. We can see they make people rich but so far, those riches have not been shared with people saving for their own retirement. Lee Hollingsworth asks the reasonable question, “why is private equity so … Continue reading →

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Explore the options for your DB scheme on December 13th.

Posted on December 3, 2021 by henry tapper

Endgame, Middlegame or Long Game? I’m interested in the way defined benefit schemes are moving towards self-sufficiency, partly because we need to secure defined benefits for people who have earned a pension from their company and partly because we need  … Continue reading →

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Why is the PLSA laying into Guy Opperman?

Posted on April 23, 2021 by henry tapper

What is going wrong? It appears that the PLSA has fallen out with the DWP and the Pensions Minister in particular. Yesterday the PLSA’s Director of Policy publicly criticized the Pension Minister for failing to adopt its proposals on “Guided … Continue reading →

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“Give us the information and let us get on with it!” – TRUST & CONFIDENCE in 2020 pensions

Posted on January 9, 2021 by henry tapper

Transparency is about letting people see the information they want to see, not the information you want them to see. This important distinction is missed by many of the people I talk to as part of my work at AgeWage. … 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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Our right to dream of a fairer deal for older people.

Posted on February 16, 2020 by henry tapper

It’s been another brutal week in politics. I’m glad that the pensions team in place at the start of it – remain in place at the end of it.  I’m pleased  that Guy Opperman remains our pensions minister. As my … Continue reading →

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A good day for master trusts

Posted on February 10, 2020 by henry tapper

The FT run a scoop this morning, predicting that today the Pensions Regulator will withdraw its proposals to require small DC plans to be run by “professional trustees” and urging  that most of the 8000 single occupational trust based DC … Continue reading →

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Workplace pensions – value for money?

Posted on August 7, 2018 by henry tapper

  This is the second of eight blogs answering the questions set out in the Work and Pension Select’s inquiry into transparency in pensions. The idea is that this blog, together with comments from anyone who chooses, will go to … Continue reading →

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Is there a “true and fair” way to value advice?

Posted on May 13, 2018 by henry tapper

  Yesterday , I wrote a blog about “ownership” and how we cede ownership of our retirement savings – often to ill-effect. You can read that blog here. This follows up on that thinking and looks at a specific issue … Continue reading →

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