Today’s Pensions Goth blog explores with Anna Brain the potential consequences of allowing access to pension savings for a housing deposit. pensionsresearch.co.uk/anna-brain-tal…
Today's blog asks why we are looking at PIP eligibility when it's so hard for eligible people to access the benefit. pensionsresearch.co.uk/we-keep-missin…
Pensions Goth speaks to Dr Izzy Bishop, freshwater scientist at UCL, about pollution, flooding, drought, and why water is still treated as background noise in long term investing. pensionsresearch.co.uk/i-talk-to-a-re…
This week’s Pensions Goth blog examines the FCA’s proposals for interactive pension tools and their implications for people with complex working lives. pensionsresearch.co.uk/interactive-pe…
This week on Pensions Goth: why students can explain a Dungeons & Dragons campaign in perfect detail but struggle to picture retirement — and what that tells us about making long-term saving feel real. pensionsresearch.co.uk/dungeons-drago…
An interview with Gareth Stears about a new way to structure the state pension using annuity factors. Could this be a fairer settlement? pensionsresearch.co.uk/could-annuity-…
I'm joining Sky News at 17:35 tonight to unpack the Budget’s salary sacrifice changes, what’s changing, who’s affected, and what it means for pension saving.
This week’s Pensions Goth blog explores why short-term Budgets keep shaping long-term pensions, creating uncertainty and driving behavioural shifts, and looks at alternatives such as using the Pensions Commission and reducing ad hoc changes. pensionsresearch.co.uk/budgets-are-sh…
Today’s Pensions Goth blog digs into the clash between human instinct and pension saving, and why policies that work with our brains, like AE and higher defaults, deliver far more than education alone. pensionsresearch.co.uk/long-live-the-…
Today’s Pensions Goth blog looks at the financial impact of gambling, and why it deserves more attention in discussions about saving, debt and long-term security. pensionsresearch.co.uk/why-gambling-n…
Today’s Pensions Goth blog asks whether it’s time for a National Insurance plan for care, because some costs are simply too big for individuals to bear alone. pensionsresearch.co.uk/we-need-a-nati…
From water scarcity to supply chain shocks, nature risk is already hitting portfolios. Today’s Pensions Goth asks: how should pension schemes respond? pensionsresearch.co.uk/nature-inequal…
Today’s Pensions Goth blog (a little late!) explores how AI is already reshaping financial advice, not tomorrow, but right now, and why the biggest risk isn’t robots taking over, but algorithms quietly rewriting what people understand about pensions. pensionsresearch.co.uk/ai-advice-and-…
Today’s Pensions Goth blog asks whether we’ve lost sight of the philosophy that once underpinned our welfare system, Beveridge’s vision of support “from cradle to grave.” pensionsresearch.co.uk/fairness-philo…
Today’s Pensions Goth Blog asks: are we overlooking the UK stock market? Reforms focus on private markets, but listed equities still drive growth and could anchor pensions closer to home. pensionsresearch.co.uk/dont-forget-th…