Inflation to hit savers as well as cut deficits

Jenna Towler
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Global inflation will erode defined benefit deficits substantially but savers will have to accept they will be far worse off, Lindsay Tomlinson warns.

The National Association of Pension Funds chairman said the threat of inflation was currently being kept under control by global government policy but it would definitely grow in coming years. S...

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