Moving the dial: How to tackle the pensions gender gap

Greater collaboration needed to effect positive change

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Laura Barnes explores the pensions gender gap in light of the first set of results from the Nucleus Retirement Confidence Index and says cross-industry collaboration is needed to address the issue

Men are generally more assured about their prospects for a comfortable retirement, the findings from our inaugural Retirement Confidence Index suggests.  So, what is making women cautious about their financial futures? And are we right to be so? A big part of it could be the fact that more men than women have a pension of any kind in the first place. Our research indicates men are also likely to know more about their pension arrangements, which suggests a higher level of engagement.  There is still a lot of work to be done to improve pension awareness levels overall. To move the di...

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