FSA campaigns for workplace presenters

As part of its financial capability programme, the FSA is hoping to encourage 500,000 employees to attend an at-work ‘make the most of your money’ seminar by 2011. To achieve this, the FSA needs to increase its pool of volunteer presenters who would give up one day a month of their time to provide “general financial education” to consumers on topics such as savings and investment, insurance, mortgages and pension planning. At this stage, the FSA has no official target number of the volunteers it seeks, but a spokesperson for the City watchdog says over 100 people have registered their i...