Baroness Ros Altmann

PFS Festival Radio

Martin chats to Baroness Ros Altmann about pension freedom progress, pension scams and the plight of 1950s born women having to wait longer for their State pension. Ros Altmann is an expert on later life issues – particularly pensions and retirement policy, investment, savings, annuities and social care funding. She is an economist by training and worked in fund management in the City for many years. She has advised Governments, regulators, industry bodies, corporates, finance firms, trustees and consumer groups and was Director-General of over 50s’ specialist Saga Group from 2010 to 2013. Ros was recently appointed a CBE for services to pensioners and pension provision and is the UK Government’s Business Champion for Older Workers. She is a frequent media commentator on pension issues and regularly writes articles and speaks at conferences on pension reform. She has won numerous industry awards and honours including Pensions Personality of the Year (twice), Industry Guru of the Year, Women in Public Life Award, The Times ‘Business Bigshot’ and was one of the UKs top 50 Most Influential People in Pensions in 2013 according to Pensions Insight. She is well-known as an independent voice who understands both customer and provider viewpoints. Ros has a first class honours degree in Economics from University College London, a Ph.D. degree in Economics from London School of Economics and was a Kennedy Scholar at Harvard. She was awarded an honorary Doctorate from University of Westminster. She is a Governor of LSE, having also been a non-executive director and Chaired its Investment Committee for many years. She is also a Governor of the Pensions Policy Institute, and Chairs the Lord Chancellor’s Strategic Investment Board for the Ministry of Justice. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, as well as being an adviser to the International Longevity Centre and was recently appointed as a Non-Executive Director of the Independent Press Standards Organisation. @rosaltmann Tuesday 14:30 - 15:30 Reflections from the pensions strategy hot seat Former Pension Ministers, Baroness Ros Altmann and Sir Steve Webb will dive under the bonnet of the next phase in the UK’s pensions revolution.