Retail Investors Decoded
Maike Currie: The gender pension gap, finfluencers and why everyone's an investor
July 16, 2026
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 si...

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

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