PENSIONS
‘I had a baby, a new job, a house — there was never time for a pension’
The Times Radio presenter Aasmah Mir has no retirement savings and there are millions like her, writes Lily Russell-Jones
Aasmah Mir bought her first home at 23
SANE SEVEN FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES
The Sunday Times
Aasmah Mir is a successful journalist. She is a Sunday Times columnist and Times Radio presenter, a high-earner who owns a three-bedroom house in London where she lives with her eight-year-old daughter. But there is one thing she doesn’t have — a pension.
“When you are 30, retirement feels very remote. I was earning quite good money and was more worried about navigating things like savings and my mortgage. I just did not have the bandwidth for it,” she said.
Now she admits that worries about how she will fund her retirement are keeping her awake at night.
“I quite often get out my calculator and work out how much money I could have saved if I had started 20 years ago. I really do
