We don’t always find age differences in attitudes towards financial tech
Wednesday 01 May 2019
When we ask people about what they think of using financial technologies to manage their money, awareness and attitudes towards using devices are often relatively consistent across ages. The world is getting older. Estimates suggest that this year will be the first in which the global population aged above 65 outnumber those under five. And the structure of labour markets in many countries reflect this, with
- Published in Ageing, Diversity, Fintech, Future trends, Innovation
The Future is Aging: Fintech Solutions for a Forgotten Generation
Wednesday 10 April 2019
In the coming years, $30 trillion of wealth will be transferred from the baby boomers to Gen Xers in the United States; the greatest transfer of wealth in our history. However, baby boomers are also spending more than their predecessors during retirement and control about 70 percent of all disposable income in the US. As retirees
- Published in Ageing, Blog, Featured, Fintech, Future trends, Innovation, Uncategorized
A plea to entrepreneurs. Pensions need you.
Wednesday 20 March 2019
Huge market The first thing to note about the UK long-term savings market is its size. The UK asset management industry manages nearly £8tn of assets, 2/3rds of which are the longterm savings of UK citizens. This already large market is also sub-scale. Basically, lots of people don’t have any longterm or even short-term savings
- Published in Ageing, AI, Blockchain, Diversity, Featured, Fintech, Future trends, Innovation, Machine learning
Distrupting Retirement
Thursday 17 January 2019
Financial services aimed at the over 55 market is often ‘grey, big, ugly and uninspiring’. Considering that those who are 55 years of age and older, control the vast majority of the world’s wealth and investible assets, they are a market that it would be foolish to ignore. Many in the over 55 demographic are
- Published in Ageing, Future, Innovation, Regulations
The future of aging should not be a story of survival – but one of living
Thursday 13 December 2018
We start getting older the day we were born. In the U.S., ten thousand people turn 65 on a daily basis. More than twenty-eight percent of Japan’s population will be 65-plus by 2030. Globally, the number of people age 60 and over is projected to double to more than two billion by 2050 according to