
Retail Investors Decoded · 2026-07-16 · 45 min
Why do so many people have pensions, but so few think of themselves as investors? This episode, Carl sits down with Maike Currie, VP of Personal Finance at PensionBee, former Investors' Chronicle journalist and one of the UK's leading voices on pensions and financial education. They explore why Britain's investing problem starts long before someone opens an ISA, and what the industry, employers and government need to do differently. They get into: Why the gender pension gap is twice the size of the gender pay gap How pensions could become Britain's gateway to investing Why financial firms are competing with Netflix, not each other, for attention The role of finfluencers, friction and trust in getting more people invested Talk to Finimize about how we can help you reach modern retail investors: