Pensions scaremongering is 'irresponsible and mistaken'

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Sending out the message that decent pensions will become unaffordable in the UK as society ages is "irresponsible and almost certainly mistaken", says Barclays European chief investment officer Kevin Gardiner.

He told delegates at the PP Risk Reduction Forum that economists were "scaring people witless" by over-egging the impacts of demographic changes. Gardiner (pictured) said the demographic factor ...

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