UK pension system improves but falls in global ranking
The UK pension system's score in the annual Melbourne Mercer Global Pension Index has improved but dropped two places in ranking to ninth as other countries overtook it.
The consultant's fifth annual index, carried out in conjunction with the Australia Centre for Financial Studies, ranks both publically funded and private components of pension systems around the world....
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