Trustee Voice with Sir Steve Webb: could pension pots help solve the housing crisis?

Vidett Podcasts are delighted to welcome Alison Hatcher’s Trustee Voice series into our podcast family. Tune in as Alison meets Sir Steve Webb – the former pensions minister – as they discuss the paradox in define contributions, and what more trustees can do offer better value to their savings. With many countries offering savers access […]

The Pensions Commission and inequality in retirement

Can the Pensions Commission move beyond adequacy to address systematically unequal outcomes? The debate over automatic enrolment reform highlights the difficulty of improving retirement outcomes for low earners. As fresh analysis from the Pensions Policy Institute makes clear, even widely supported changes involve trade-offs. But perhaps the bigger question is whether the pensions system is […]

Bridging the ethnicity gap in pensions

I’ve worked with a 100 trustee boards — but only three lay trustees that were people of colour. Better representation is needed if the industry is going to address the ethnicity pensions gap. October’s Black History Month served as a timely reminder to reflect on the complex relationship between ethnicity and pensions. While it’s heartening […]

Gloomy retirement

Stuart Southall recently wrote to The Times regarding pension adequacy, automatic enrolment and pension contribution rates. The letter was published in the national newspaper on Friday 21 April. “Sir, You report (Apr 20) that the Institute for Fiscal Studies has enlisted Lord Darling of Roulanish and David Gauke to take a fresh look at pension […]