PP Show 2010 - Auto-enrolment take-up rate 'over-optimistic', say expert

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Predictions auto-enrolment will boost scheme take-up rates among low earners are ‘over-optimistic', Standard Life warns.

Head of pensions policy John Lawson told delegates take-up rates among lower paid people are likely to be between 5% and 10% and are unlikely to ever exceed 25%. In the past, schemes with 20,00...

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