Danielle Walker Palmour, Director of Friends Provident Foundation, explains how the Journalist Fellowship 2016 came about and why it is important for journalists to have a better understanding of the economic debates underpinned by the Foundation’s work in building long-term, resilient and ethical economies
Category: Pensions
Is auto-enrolment helping young people build up pensions?
David Kingman looks at what impact the new auto-enrolment system is having on young peoples’ ability to save towards pensions
We Pensioners Have Done Well…
Lawrence Lockhart, IF supporter, suggests how the National Health Service and the social care system could be better funded
Is Edi Truell the man to save public sector pensions?
Tom Anderson, who is working at IF under the Oxford Internship scheme, welcomes the recent warning from Edi Truell that public sector pensions are becoming unsustainable
Dignity and security for all ages
Tom Anderson, who is working at IF under the Oxford Internship scheme, examines a new report on pensioner living standards that shows pensioner poverty is reaching record lows, but possibly at the expense of future generations
Are the government’s latest pension reforms short-termist?
David Kingman asks whether recent changes to private pension-saving could benefit the government today at the expense of the longer term
Raising number of older workers could boost GDP by £100 billion, according to PwC
David Kingman looks at a new report from the accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) which suggests Britain could reap a huge economic dividend if older people stayed in the workforce for longer
New report emphasises scale of intergenerational financial liabilities
David Kingman describes the findings of a new report which shows the scale of the liabilities being passed on to future generations
New report confirms a deep generational divide over wealth and asset ownership
David Kingman examines the latest research into the distribution of wealth and asset ownership in the UK, which shows a growing intergenerational divide between young people and older households
Who should Young People Vote for this Week? The Greens?
Liz Emerson, IF Co-Founder, analyses the manifestos using the lens of intergenerational fairness in the run-up to the May General Election. Today she inspects The Greens