One of the Long Finance questions we frequently pose is, "can a 20-year-old responsibly enter into a financial structure for his or her retirement?” Our friends at the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation (CSFI) are taking a daring, some might say foolhardy, step by actually asking 20 year olds (actually 18 to 25 year olds is the target range) what they think about financial services. While we recognize that not too many of our regulars meet that target demographic, we suspect that many of our readers have some influence over those who do, especially over the seasonal break.

Please do encourage those young people who fall within your sphere of influence to respond to the questionnaire. It is important research and we are very much supporting it. Naturally all responses are confidential but participants and encouragers alike can gain access to the results which will be published in a report and which are bound to be challenging and interesting.

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