Personal accounts will not protect against poverty in retirement

Jonathan Stapleton
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The government will fail to protect millions of Britons from poverty in old age unless it makes vital changes to the way in which it plans to introduce personal accounts, a Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce report says.

The educational society's report - Pensions for the people: addressing the investment crisis in Britain - concluded that, although the government's policy of auto-enrolment and personal accounts re...

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