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Stephanie Hawthorne

London

Journalist and Editor at Freelance

Freelance financial journalist, editor (ex Pensions World) and tennis fan. FTAdviser columnist; People’s Friend money correspondent and Mail on Sunday writer.

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  • 1 week ago | ftadviser.com | Stephanie Hawthorne

    This week marks a minor milestone, with 20 volunteer major pension players now connected to the MoneyHelper pensions dashboard. However, no launch date has been set and nothing is expected for at least six months. The project for now remains computer ‘vapourware’. The Pensions Regulator describes pensions dashboards (paid for by pension providers) as “digital services – apps, websites or other tools – which savers will be able to use to see their pension information in one place.

  • 1 month ago | ftadviser.com | Stephanie Hawthorne

    People in their 40s face peak pensioner poverty by the time they retire in 2042 and beyond. Worryingly, 17 years is just a twinkling of an eye when it comes to retirement planning. And a question mark hangs over the continued existence of the state pension in its present form. Unless auto-enrolment contributions rise within the lifetime of this parliament, this cohort will face dire penury in their old age.

  • 2 months ago | ftadviser.com | Stephanie Hawthorne

    It is nearly 10 years since the pensions freedoms revolution initiated by George Osborne, then chancellor of the exchequer, began in April 2015. Today, the huge range of pension choices can leave many floundering and worse still, even making irrevocable mistakes, without easy access to advice.

  • 2 months ago | msn.com | Stephanie Hawthorne

    Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.

  • 2 months ago | msn.com | Stephanie Hawthorne

    Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.

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Stephanie Hawthorne
Stephanie Hawthorne @HawthorneSJJ
4 May 25

RT @compareurwealth: Interesting fact from @Quilter about use of surplus income rule @thetimes @AlihussainST https://t.co/DrhAMuMJhI

Stephanie Hawthorne
Stephanie Hawthorne @HawthorneSJJ
3 May 25

City wrangles over plan to get pension funds to invest more in the UK https://t.co/rUS59mBsci

Stephanie Hawthorne
Stephanie Hawthorne @HawthorneSJJ
2 May 25

My new monthly column for @FTAdviser published today. The pensions dashboard and UK dashboards 'ecosystem ' needs to be pitch perfect on eventual launch - otherwise the US giants Apple and Amazon will muscle in on this £3 trillion UK pensions sector @MoorgateMermaid

FTAdviser
FTAdviser @FTAdviser

Opinion: ‘Dashboard needs huge ad campaign to succeed as pensions poster child’ https://t.co/7TPTy4idW8