Overcoming Gender Pensions Gap
Ros was quoted in ‘The Week’ calling for urgent action to help prevent women losing out so badly in pensions.
Lord Mayor Hits Back at Criticism Over £50 Billion Growth Fund
Ros was quoted by Bloomberg News supporting the call for £50m investment fund to help pension funds access growth-boosting projects that can diversify and improve their long-term returns. ( link to pdf )
JEFF PRESTRIDGE: Baroness Altmann is right again on the personal savings allowance tax raid – it’s time to act
Ros is quoted in ThisIsMoney calling for the Chancellor to increase the personal savings tax threshold. ( link to pdf )
Could super funds salvage our retirements, and fix the damage from Gordon Brown’s tax raid that ruined Britain’s pensions, asks JEFF PRESTRIDGE
Ros is quoted in ThisIsMoney welcoming the idea of pension superfunds. ( link to pdf )
Hunt urged to raise savings tax thresholds: Baroness Altmann leads calls to ease stealth levy that makes it even harder for savers to fight inflation
SAVERS LOSING OUT AGAIN AS RATES LAG INFLATION AND TAX TAKE RISES: Ros is quoted in This is Money suggesting the Chancellor could consider increasing saving tax thresholds as savers’ returns remain negative. ( link to pdf )
Government agrees to enshrine in law a requirement for banks to provide customers with convenient free access to cash on the high street
FREE CASH WITHDRAWALS TO BE RETAINED: The Mail on Sunday reports that the Government has agreed to ensure free access to cash must be retained on high streets, following Ros’ amendments and Which? And Mail on Sunday campaigns to protect cash access. ( link to pdf )
Parking mad! Fury as pay-and-display meters ‘will be phased out by 2025’ as councils go cash-free… leaving drivers to wrestle with a range of phone apps
NOT EVERYONE CAN USE APP ONLY PARKING: Ros is quoted my Mail online expressing her view that councils must retain non-digital options for parking payment and other services. (link to pdf)
Nearly half of women fear lack of funds in retirement
WOMEN AT GREATER RISK OF REITREMENT INSECURITY: Ros is quoted in Professional Pensions warning that women have been the poor relations in pensions for too long.
Nearly half of women fear lack of funds in retirement
WOMEN FEAR INSUFFICIENT PENSION: Ros is quoted in Professional Pensions about the problems facing women who lack confidence in their retirement financial security.
Ros Altmann: When will women get the backing they deserve on pensions?
WHEN WILL WOMEN GET FAIRER PENSION TREATMENT: Ros wrote a column for Money Marketing explaining that women need better pensions and too often lose out from policies that are stacked against them.