Menu
Sign In Search Podcasts Charts People & Topics Add Podcast API Blog Pricing

John Stepek

👤 Speaker
283 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Merryn Talks Money
Your Pension, Your Problem? Inside Nest’s Big Investment Shift

was talking about how the UK doesn't yet have a kind of 401k chat culture as the US does.

Merryn Talks Money
Your Pension, Your Problem? Inside Nest’s Big Investment Shift

But over time, if everyone actually has to worry about what's in their pension and gets to grips with that, then that could be positive for investment in this country.

Merryn Talks Money
Your Pension, Your Problem? Inside Nest’s Big Investment Shift

But...

Merryn Talks Money
Your Pension, Your Problem? Inside Nest’s Big Investment Shift

The other problem is that auto-enrolment is the kind of thing that people will sit there, they'll say, oh, I'm getting paid into a workplace pension scheme.

Merryn Talks Money
Your Pension, Your Problem? Inside Nest’s Big Investment Shift

I mean, one of the reasons that it's an opt-out is because that's to make people do it by default.

Merryn Talks Money
Your Pension, Your Problem? Inside Nest’s Big Investment Shift

But the problem is that when people are doing it by default, they don't think about what's in it or they can't be bored with the hurdles.

Merryn Talks Money
Your Pension, Your Problem? Inside Nest’s Big Investment Shift

And to be fair, I went on the NEST scheme for something that's completely different from this topic, but a bit earlier today.

Merryn Talks Money
Your Pension, Your Problem? Inside Nest’s Big Investment Shift

And you can, you know, it's not hard to look up what they're invested in, but the question is, is anyone going to bother?

Merryn Talks Money
Your Pension, Your Problem? Inside Nest’s Big Investment Shift

And I do think that...

Merryn Talks Money
Your Pension, Your Problem? Inside Nest’s Big Investment Shift

And I don't know who does it, because if you're listening to this, right, and we are talking to you directly, and you don't know what's in your pension auto-enrolment scheme, go and check it.

Merryn Talks Money
Your Pension, Your Problem? Inside Nest’s Big Investment Shift

Don't be lazy.

Merryn Talks Money
Your Pension, Your Problem? Inside Nest’s Big Investment Shift

This is important.

Merryn Talks Money
Your Pension, Your Problem? Inside Nest’s Big Investment Shift

But we only have so many, you know, million listeners.

Merryn Talks Money
Your Pension, Your Problem? Inside Nest’s Big Investment Shift

I'll put a wee asterisk by that.

Merryn Talks Money
Your Pension, Your Problem? Inside Nest’s Big Investment Shift

And, you know, so how do you get the message across?

Merryn Talks Money
Your Pension, Your Problem? Inside Nest’s Big Investment Shift

Is this something that you have to drop on employers to kind of like, you know,

Merryn Talks Money
Your Pension, Your Problem? Inside Nest’s Big Investment Shift

educate their employees and say, look, this is, by the way, what this invests in.

Merryn Talks Money
Your Pension, Your Problem? Inside Nest’s Big Investment Shift

But then you're going down a whole other rabbit hole of... I don't think this is the employer's responsibility.

Merryn Talks Money
Your Pension, Your Problem? Inside Nest’s Big Investment Shift

Well, I don't think so either, but who does it become?

Merryn Talks Money
Your Pension, Your Problem? Inside Nest’s Big Investment Shift

I mean, to be fair, that's a good point.