WHO WE ARE?
Our Mission
Pension Starter Guide exists to make UK pensions and retirement planning easier to understand.
Pensions can involve unfamiliar terminology, complicated rules and decisions that may affect your financial future. Our aim is to break these subjects down into clear explanations, practical examples and easy-to-follow scenarios.
We focus on helping people understand the options available to them so they can ask better questions, make more informed decisions and know when professional financial advice may be appropriate.
Meet The Founder
Chinedu Okoronkwo is the Founder and editor of Pension Starter Guide, a UK-focused pension and retirement education platform created to help people understand pensions, retirement planning and long-term financial decisions in clear, practical language.
He holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Northampton and brings a diverse professional background spanning human resources, payroll, consumer insurance, international government liaison and business operations.
His experience in UK payroll and human resources provided an understanding of employment, earnings and workplace-related financial matters, while his work in insurance claims and reclaims at i-smart Consumer Solutions in Northampton involved helping UK consumers pursue refunds relating to mis-sold Payment Protection Insurance (PPI). This experience provided valuable insight into the challenges consumers can face when navigating financial products and the importance of accessible, accurate information.
He also gained international commercial and administrative experience as a Liaison Officer in the Commercial Section of the Embassy of Argentina, working between the Argentine home office and government, as well as operational experience in the oil and gas downstream sector, where he was responsible for coordinating and plotting the bulk supply of refined petroleum products.
He founded Pension Starter Guide to bring together this professional experience, business education and independent research to make the UK pension and retirement system easier to understand. The platform covers topics including workplace pensions, personal pensions, retirement planning, pension options, saving and investing, and preparing for retirement.
Pension Starter Guide uses authoritative UK sources and a human-led editorial process to research and explain pension topics. It also uses fictional AI characters and educational storytelling to make complex retirement concepts easier to understand. The AI characters are presentation and storytelling tools—not financial advisers—and the information published by Pension Starter Guide is intended for general education and information, not personalised financial advice.
WHAT WE COVER
Workplace pensions
Personal pensions
Retirement planning
Pension options
Saving and investing
Preparing for retirement.
OUR APPROACH
Pension Starter Guide combines real-world professional experience, business education, authoritative UK research and human editorial oversight to explain pensions and retirement in straightforward language.
How We Research Pension & Retirement Content
Pension and retirement information can change as legislation, tax rules, government policy and pension regulations evolve. For this reason, Pension Starter Guide uses a source-led research process.
When researching an article, we identify the specific pension or retirement question, consult relevant primary and authoritative UK sources, check applicable dates and rules, compare information where necessary, and then explain the subject in plain English.
Depending on the subject, sources may include GOV.UK, HM Revenue & Customs, the Department for Work and Pensions, The Pensions Regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority, MoneyHelper, legislation.gov.uk, the Office for National Statistics and established pension research organisations.
The final article is reviewed editorially before publication, with updates made when significant rules, legislation, tax treatment or government guidance changes.
About Our AI Visual Characters
Pension Starter Guide uses AI-generated characters and visual storytelling to illustrate pension concepts. The characters are fictional and are not financial advisers. They are used to make complex subjects easier to understand.
The underlying information in each video is researched and editorially reviewed by Chinedu Okoronkwo using authoritative UK sources.
Disclaimer
We are not financial advisors, our role is different. We provide independent educational content only, designed to help readers understand UK pensions and retirement planning, identify the questions they need to ask, and know when regulated financial advice may be appropriate.