{"id":383,"date":"2023-07-11T13:22:06","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T13:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wealthatwork.co.uk\/bt\/2023\/07\/11\/why-the-demand-for-financial-education-at-work-is-rising\/"},"modified":"2023-07-11T13:53:11","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T13:53:11","slug":"why-the-demand-for-financial-education-at-work-is-rising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.wealthatwork.co.uk\/bt\/2023\/07\/11\/why-the-demand-for-financial-education-at-work-is-rising\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the demand for financial education at work is rising."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=&#8221;384&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<strong>Jonathan Watts-Lay, Director, WEALTH at work<\/strong>, discusses why the demand for financial education at work is rising, commenting in Raconteur that \u201cthe financial wellbeing agenda has been gathering momentum for a while.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He adds; \u201cIt started during the 2008-09 financial crisis, when employers couldn\u2019t afford to give pay rises but wanted to educate their staff about the value of their employee benefits. The 2015 \u2018freedom and choice\u2019 pension policy [which allowed savers to access their pensions flexibly, rather than being forced to buy an annuity] was another catalyst, as employers called in experts to explain the retirement choices to their staff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watts-Lay comments; \u201cThere are lots of providers selling all sorts of products in the workplace, but employees need to understand them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To read the full article in Raconteur, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raconteur.net\/finance\/wealth-managers-financial-wellbeing-work\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>please click here<\/strong><\/a>.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n  <\/div> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Watts-Lay, Director, WEALTH at work, discusses why the demand for financial education at work is rising.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":384,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,10,3,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.wealthatwork.co.uk\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.wealthatwork.co.uk\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.wealthatwork.co.uk\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.wealthatwork.co.uk\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.wealthatwork.co.uk\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www2.wealthatwork.co.uk\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":385,"href":"https:\/\/www2.wealthatwork.co.uk\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions\/385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.wealthatwork.co.uk\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.wealthatwork.co.uk\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.wealthatwork.co.uk\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.wealthatwork.co.uk\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}