Sam Unstead

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276 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 5 Jun

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Merryn Talks Money · SpaceX Fever, Bitcoin's Bad Week and How to Get the UK Investing · 5 Jun 2026 podcast

Unfortunately, this is just an eternal problem here, and certainly has been for an extended period of time now, is that getting the government to make a move like that is just incredibly difficult because they almost feel hamstrung on just almost on every measure they possibly could.

So when they're launching this new campaign to get people to invest, they've got this savvy squirrel, which is the kind of thing that in the UK I think investors just think is really silly.

And they therefore don't really take it very seriously.

And I think there must be a kind of better way to communicate these things.

The slight optimism I'd have that maybe it's going to start to shift is,

Retail investing has grown here.

Yeah, no, that's true.

I mean, across Europe, it's a pretty similar picture.

And actually, you know, we do have a really strong financial services sector here.

So there are lots of providers and there is good, you know, decent competition and it is increasing.

I think what may start to help a little bit is there's another really good story that was on the terminal this week about the housing market, you know, that, you know, millennial home buyers, you know, who bought sort of 10 years ago,

The entire dynamic that they bought into, I'm going to buy this house and this is going to help me to build my wealth over the course of my lifetime, has been totally upended.

And if that is the case, because for such a long time, that's how you built wealth in the UK, is you bought a house.

That's absolutely true.

If that stops being the case and doesn't, certainly in the short term, doesn't look like it's going to turn around, then that may well prompt people to start thinking, oh, okay, well, what else can I do?

And there are lots of options to do that.

And if you do start to then see a bit more appetite, that might push, you know, the government or the stock exchange or various different stakeholders to maybe make some slightly more radical moves.

Yeah.

And as you've written about this week as well, this Pensions UK report that came out about what you would, you know, they estimate you would need for this moderate, you know, to comfortable living.

amount of money for retirement.

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