UK employees place greater emphasis on workplace pensions than other countries

Victoria Tichá
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Workers in the UK expect more than a third of their retirement income to come from workplace pensions, second only to the Netherlands at 37%, according to research by Aegon.

Globally, people expect workplace retirement plans to fund 24% of their overall retirement income. When broken down nationally, Canada came in at 27% and Australia 26%. The state pension was als...

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