Publication: ‘A Path to Post-Growth Pensions’
“If our economies cannot grow forever, and they cannot, we need to start thinking differently about how we plan for retirement.”
Pensions as we know them are not future fit. They are trapped in a system that requires continuous growth of assets on a planet with finite resources and most are vastly underestimating the risks associated with that. By disaster or by design, profound changes are in store for pensions-as-usual, whether they see them coming or not.
This paper lays out the challenges pensions are faced with today, the opportunities for change in line with a transition to an economy that can , and an immediately applicable shift in mindset that could help us realize resilient, growth-independent wellbeing in retirement.