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Having children is one of life’s biggest milestones, but for many employees, it also carries a hidden financial cost. Missed earnings, stalled promotions and paused pension contributions can snowball into a ‘parenthood penalty’ that deepens gender pay and pension gaps for decades. With new pension reforms and a new Pay Transparency Directive rolling out in the EU, now is the time for employers to take action.
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Ruth Handcock is CEO of Octopus Money, a money advice brand for everyone. The new brand – Octopus Group's second mass consumer brand alongside Octopus Energy – offers money coaching and advice to millions of people across the UK, regardless of how much they earn or are able to invest.
For her first 5 years as part of the Octopus Group she was CEO at Octopus Investments, an asset manager with £13bn under management. Prior to this she was a founding employee at Tandem, a new UK challenger bank, and was responsible for achieving their banking licence. She is an independent non-Executive Director of Aldermore Bank and sits on the Octopus Group main Board.
Ruth is passionate about education – in finances and beyond – having spent a year working in the Ministry of Trade in Sierra Leone to attract overseas investment and establishing a primary school in Freetown. Ruth was also Governor at Bolingbroke Academy, a non-selective state secondary for 6 years.