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-t...
27.02.2026 10:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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-t...
27.02.2026 10:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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-miss...
20.02.2026 10:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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. Also, a garden pond tragedy and a citizen scientist mum. pensionsresearch.co.uk/i-talk-to-a-...
10.02.2026 14:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Today’s Pensions Goth blog asks why pensions still assume equal working lives when work and care are still shared unequally. pensionsresearch.co.uk/policy-doesn...
30.01.2026 12:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Today’s Pensions Goth blog questions the gap between State Pension increased and cost rises pensionsresearch.co.uk/state-pensio...
26.01.2026 13:35 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Today’s Pensions Goth blog asks a question we keep avoiding: what is the state pension actually for? pensionsresearch.co.uk/we-cant-deba...
16.01.2026 12:02 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
With progress under the UK Modern Slavery Act stalling, today's pensions goth blog looks at why forced labour is a financial risk, not just an ethical one, and what trustees and investors should do about it. pensionsresearch.co.uk/wp-admin/pos...
09.01.2026 11:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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-...
12.12.2025 11:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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-dra...
05.12.2025 15:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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-annuit...
28.11.2025 11:19 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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.
26.11.2025 16:27 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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 new Pensions Commission and reducing ad hoc Budget changes. pensionsresearch.co.uk/budgets-are-...
21.11.2025 14:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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-th...
14.11.2025 13:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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...
07.11.2025 12:36 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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/wp-admin/pos...
07.11.2025 12:34 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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-na...
31.10.2025 10:43 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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-inequ...
24.10.2025 14:23 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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-an...
20.10.2025 14:06 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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-phi...
10.10.2025 11:24 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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-... @williamw1.bsky.social
03.10.2025 13:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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02.10.2025 13:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Today's Pensions Goth Blog explores what happens when life expectancy stalls but the State Pension Age keeps rising. pensionsresearch.co.uk/stalled-long...
26.09.2025 10:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Today’s Pensions Goth Blog explores how financial influencers are shaping the way people think about pensions and later life – and why understanding this is vital for future reforms. pensionsresearch.co.uk/why-we-are-s...
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Are pension freedoms giving people a vital safety net — or encouraging early exits from work? Today’s Pensions Goth blog explores how flexible access may be shaping economic inactivity among older workers, and what this means for future retirement incomes.
pensionsresearch.co.uk/is-economic-...
Today’s Pensions Goth blog explores whether people who must leave work early because of disability or caring should be able to claim their State Pension before State Pension age, and what lessons we can learn from other countries. pensionsresearch.co.uk/mind-the-gap...
05.09.2025 13:37 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Today’s Pensions Goth blog explores why DC cannot simply copy the LGPS model, and asks how scale, pooling and value frameworks must adapt if DC is to play a bigger role.
pensionsresearch.co.uk/why-dc-strug...
Today’s Pensions Goth Blog looks at IFM Investors’ report on modern slavery in investment portfolios, and why this matters for pension schemes as long-term investors. It covers the risks, challenges of detection, and practical steps to drive change. pensionsresearch.co.uk/modern-slave...
15.08.2025 10:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Today’s Pensions Goth Blog explores the reality behind pensioner poverty, challenging assumptions that all older people are financially secure. It looks at who is most at risk, and why averages don’t tell the full story. #TripleLock #RetirementIncome
pensionsresearch.co.uk/beyond-the-h...
Today’s Pensions Goth blog explores how proposed disability benefit reforms will disproportionately affect older people, despite ministerial claims, with data showing rising poverty risks and limited work options for those in their 50s and 60s.
pensionsresearch.co.uk/disability-b...