Employers and workers should agree on triggers for auto-escalation

Kristian Brunt-Seymour
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Aegon has called for the introduction of triggers for automatically increasing pension savings to tackle the issue of people not contributing enough.

Its 2016 Retirement Readiness Survey said increases could be made automatically at pre-determined times and on certain conditions such as pay raises, or upon attaining a certain age. Savings in...

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