Tag Archives: workplace

Next month UK employment law changes – workplace pensions are on the union’s agenda.

Posted on September 21, 2026 by henry tapper

The unions have been excluded from the pension debate and are only considered important within public sector schemes. This is short sighted. Continue reading →

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CAPAdata creates a workplace pension benchmark to judge VFM with.

Posted on September 3, 2026 by henry tapper

Below is Corporate Adviser’s good news for those measuring the performance of workplace pension money. I find it extraordinary that this is not getting more publicity but suspect that where it should be news , this is seen as competition. … Continue reading →

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Pensions deferred for workplace DC schemes ; CDC exempted!

Posted on July 14, 2026 by henry tapper

There are a range of headlines  about what the changes of the timeline to the Pension Schemes Act Timeline and what surrounds it. For the asset managers and those who manage commercial workplace pensions it is about “scale” and what … Continue reading →

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Dirty tricks of some workplace pension schemes

Posted on March 14, 2026 by henry tapper

In a recent blog, I pointed to a report that Jonathan Stapleton brings to life with quotes from those working for the personal pensions on the wrong end of the transfer delays (who represent their customers as well). There is … Continue reading →

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Work Pensions do deals NOW in UK private markets (not just offer LTAFs).

Posted on October 20, 2025 by henry tapper

While the ABI hurried out a paper I wrote about over the weekend saying insurers had invested next to nothing (0.24% of £268bn)  in retail workplace pensions (around £650m), institutional investment is  a different matter for organisations seeing investment as … Continue reading →

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Scottish Widows finds it isn’t getting enough money from savers

Posted on May 8, 2025 by henry tapper

Scottish Widows has researched into the UK public’s capacity to pay the bills in later years and has concluded that workplace pensions are key to meeting the shortfall between what people get from the state and what they need to … Continue reading →

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CDC – a personal perspective

Posted on September 14, 2023 by henry tapper

  Yesterday I published a very passionate denouncement of the ABI which unsurprisingly hasn’t pleased the ABI. My beef is based on 15 years of frustration getting to a point where Government has promoted CDC as a Mansion House Reform … Continue reading →

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ReAssure’s IGC report – proves there can be value at the bottom of the barrel.

Posted on October 17, 2022 by henry tapper

This article focusses on the IGC Chair’s report for ReAssure, published in September for the year to the end of 2021. As its Chair, David Hare makes clear, it doesn’t include the member experience for 2022, that will follow – … Continue reading →

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Should the new Pension and Growth minister grow auto-enrolment?

Posted on October 13, 2022 by henry tapper

There is growth and there is growth – it looks like growing pensions through auto-enrolment is the wrong kind of growth. Pensions have not been immune from the current political and market turbulence. Indeed they have been branded both victim … Continue reading →

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Disrupted work

Posted on September 18, 2022 by henry tapper

The last two years has seen significant shifts in the way we work and we all know why, Sars 2 was the culprit and though we are close to leaving the state of pandemic, the disruption of home-working is here … Continue reading →

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