{"id":45592,"date":"2017-09-15T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T23:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/?p=45592"},"modified":"2021-05-23T18:31:43","modified_gmt":"2021-05-23T17:31:43","slug":"romi-savova-and-jonathan-lister-pensionbee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/romi-savova-and-jonathan-lister-pensionbee\/","title":{"rendered":"Romi Savova and Jonathan Lister: PensionBee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Romi Savova and Jonathan Lister, 32 &amp; 34<br>\nCompany: <\/strong>PensionBee<strong><br>\nWeb: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pensionbee.com\">www.pensionbee.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Twice-featured in the Startups 100 and winner of <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/innovative-business-of-the-year-2016\/\">Innovative Business of the Year<\/a> at the Startups Awards 2016, Pension Bee is the online pension manager that helps its customers combine all their old pensions into one new online plan.<\/p>\n<p>And behind it all are Romi Savova and Jonathan Lister, the entrepreneurs on a mission to make pensions &ldquo;cool&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>Targeting customers in their 30s and early 40s who are put off saving for later by complicated products, PensionBee allows users to manage their pension like a bank account, able to look at their live balance, make contributions online and use a smart calculator to plan their saving.<\/p>\n<p>After choosing a plan that suits their needs, every customer is assigned a dedicated &lsquo;beekeeper&rsquo; and pays an annual management fee of between just 0.5 and 0.7% depending on their plan. This fee covers everything including transfers, underlying fund fees and making contributions, with no exit fees charged.<\/p>\n<p>Whether pensions are now officially cool or not remains to be seen, but with 40,000 sign-ups &ndash; 65% of which are acquired through Facebook and Instagram &ndash; millions of pounds moved to the platform every week and a 9.1 pilot rating on Trustpilot, PensionBee certainly seems to be striking a chord with consumers. And it&rsquo;s not just trendy Londoners either: 80% of its customers are based outside the capital.<\/p>\n<p>PensionBee says: &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve connected with a generation left out in the cold by complacent pension providers. 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