Josephine Cumbo

About

Josephine is an award winning financial journalist who has covered company news, business and personal finance for the Financial Times, FT.com and FT Money.Josephine specialises in writing about pensions but also covers savings, investments, tax and other issues of interest to high-net individuals.She has extensive broadcast experience and is currently a weekly commentator on the FT Money Podcast, which has more than 20,000 subscribers. She is a resident pensions expert on the BBC's "Right on the Money" programme wherefamilies are given tips on how to manage their money. She is a media commentator on pensions and has discussed policy on popular programmes including the BBC's Newsnight, Radio 4's Woman's Hour, BBC 5 Live and Sky News. She has acted as a conference chair, speaker and panelist at numerous high profile industry events. She has spoken at political party conferences about how savers are affected by pension policy.Josephine is also an Advisory Board member for the Thatcher's Pension Reforms project, a Bristol University initiative examining historical pension reforms.She represents staff on the FT pension scheme's governance committee.In 2012, she was a Torchbearer for the London Olympics.