Category: Financial inclusion
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The first WFFI session
Adequacy, Annuities, Automatic enrolment, Behavioural economics, Benefits, Carers, Consolidation, Contributions, Dashboards, Decumulation, Defined Benefit, Defined Contribution, Disability, Drawdown, Early access, Engagement, Ethnicity, Financial inclusion, Guidance/advice, Housing, Inflation, Investment, Pension freedoms, Pensions gap, Poverty, Retirement, WomenI ran the first Women’s Financial Future Initiative session today, over the lunch hour, with fifteen women at Bravura Solutions. The Initiative exists because the pension system already contains protections for the things that shape a lot of women’s working lives, such as time out for caring, part time hours and relationship change. I don’t…
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The road to Pensions Goth – a Pensions Net-Work after dinner speech
Adequacy, Automatic enrolment, Behavioural economics, Benefits, Carers, Decumulation, Defined Benefit, Defined Contribution, Disability, DWP, Early access, Ethnicity, Financial inclusion, Gender, History, Housing, Income, Inflation, Labour market, Long term care, Mansion House, Pension freedoms, Pensions Commission, Pensions gap, Poverty, Private pensions, Retirement, Self employed, State Pension, State Pension age, Triple lock, WomenI never meant to end up in pensions. In fact, I spent the first 15 years or so of my life dreaming about overthrowing capitalism. My father was a Marxist and fed this passion, telling me I would grow up to be a leader of men, and I actually felt that being a revolutionary wasn’t…
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The new UK Financial Inclusion Strategy is a welcome step forward. It recognises the scale of exclusion in the UK and makes an important commitment: financial education will become compulsory in primary schools in England – hopefully building confidence with money early in life, before people are juggling rent, childcare, debt, or pension choices. But…