Tag Archives: workplace

How safe is your workplace pension?

Posted on July 18, 2015 by henry tapper

The opportunity to improve pension fund charging. Let us pause for a moment and consider what we are buying into when we set up a workplace pension for our staff. On the face of it, nobody enrolled into a workplace … Continue reading →

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It’s only human nature after all!

Posted on February 16, 2015 by henry tapper

  It’s natural for us to crave money but we are not natural money saving experts. Debate has raged on this blog and on the Pension Play Pen group pages as to whether Pensions Wise is doomed along with the … Continue reading →

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How Payroll can avoid offering pension advice (in 5 easy lessons)!

Posted on February 15, 2015 by henry tapper

The blog in a nutshell This is a long risk-warning to payroll bureau and their software suppliers  who may be considering providing advice to employers by reducing the choice of pension options to one – a default. If you don’t … Continue reading →

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“what should tell the staff?” Pension PlayPen Lunch today!

Posted on February 2, 2015 by henry tapper

  Every first business Monday of the month, the Pension Play Pen Linked In group meet in the Partners Room of the Counting House in Cornhill to discuss pressing issues of the day. True to form, we meet today (Monday … Continue reading →

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“Collaboration” is not a dirty word

Posted on January 1, 2015 by henry tapper

      In this article, I am setting out First Actuarial’s and Pension PlayPen’s auto-enrolment strategy for 2015 and beyond. It is a strategy that sets out to collaborate with not compete with advisers.   Why we chose to work … Continue reading →

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Why employers pay no attention to the pension

Posted on December 6, 2014 by henry tapper

Darren Say has written a very contentious article that you can read here https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/article/20141203141647-42828632-ae-pensions-insanity Darren opens by repeating three statements on pensions …employers don’t want world class pensions, they just want the problem to comply with AE legislation to be taken off … Continue reading →

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Annuities get another kick in the goolies

Posted on September 29, 2014 by henry tapper

What’s the story? The Chancellor will announce in his speech at the Tory conference that he will put a stop to the 55% tax on pension pots not spent at death. The Treasury announcement on what detail we so far … Continue reading →

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“Who’s on our side?”

Posted on June 23, 2014 by henry tapper

  I’m having dinner with TV educationalist Alvin Hall, a man almost as well know for being attacked by ostriches as for his charismatic TV appearances. Looking through the list of other guests at the supper I reckon they represent … Continue reading →

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Why employers cannot be “provider agnostic” about their workplace pension.

Posted on April 21, 2014 by henry tapper

At http://www.pensionplaypen.com, we are horrified by the slapdash way in which employers are choosing workplace pensions and the complacency of their advisers who seem solely intent on selling payroll and HR middleware. Continue reading →

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Employers can help staff with their money – if only we’d let them

Posted on January 31, 2014 by henry tapper

It’s time companies got their mojo back and got real with staff. Www.pensionplaypen.com helps to do just that. Continue reading →

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