Maps names industry leaders for financial wellbeing initiative

Hope William-Smith
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The Money and Pensions Service (Maps) has named 12 sector leaders as challenge group chairs to spearhead its newly launched strategy for financial wellbeing.

The national strategy aims to improve the UK's financial wellbeing within ten years by getting an additional two million people to regularly save. Maps has set five "agendas for change" and priority areas that it will work with partner organisations to deliver, in order to help people make the most of their money and pensions. These will be overseen by the challenge groups of specialists from across the public private and third sectors. Legal & General Investment Management head of defined contribution Emma Douglas and Mind chief executive Paul Farmer are among the executives who will...

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