Ros is quoted in a Financial Times article explaining the need for flexibility is state pension starting ages, to reflect the significant differences in healthy life expectancy across the UK. Women’s healthy life expectancy is only to around age 50 in deprived areas, while it’s around 70 in the better off areas. Men also have large differences, so how is it fair to expect them to keep working later?
Ros wrote a column for Money Marketing website warning about the need to consider protecting portfolios and savings against potential rises in inflation after the massive monetary expansion in the pandemic. ( link to pdf )
Ros is quoted calling on the Government and Courts to find ways to unlock the Child Trust Funds of disabled children who are turning 18, but find their money is locked unless their parents go to Court which takes hours of form-filling and months of waiting. ( link to pdf )
Ros is quoted by the Daily Mail calling for Ministers to help parents of disabled children access their Child Trust Fund money, rather than forcing them to fill in reams of forms and go to Court. ( link to pdf )
Ros is quoted by The Actuary Magazine, commenting on the large and widening gap in healthy life expectancy between the richest and poorest areas of the UK. Not everyone can be expected to work longer just because average national life expectancy has increased. ( link to pdf )
This is an AssetTV Retirement Income Masterclass chaired by Ros with experts Kirsty Anderson from Prudential, Andrew Tully from Canada Life and Peter Glancy from Scottish Widows. Discussing the March 2021 Budget, trends to ESG, impact of interest rates and pension tax relief reforms.
Description: Ros is quoted by Pensions Expert welcoming the news that the PPF is gearing up to pay compensation to occupational pension scheme fraud victims, using the Fraud Compensation Fund
Women’s Pension injustice – AGAIN! Ros is quoted in the MailOnLine article which says up to 80,000 older women pensioners will miss out on the compensation that is being arranged for those living on lower State Pensions than they should have had since 2008. ( link to pdf )
Ros recorded a podcast for FT Pensions Expert explaining her thoughts on many pension issues, including the reckless conservatism of DB pension asset allocations.
Ros is quoted in the Financial Times urging the Government to pay women who have been living on much lower State Pensions than they were entitled to, as soon as possible – will cost £2.7bn or so to compensate 200,000 women.