Osborne may emulate Maxwell as pensions 'destroyer' - McPhail

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Chancellor George Osborne is in danger of emulating Robert Maxwell "as a destroyer of pension savings" with plans for a retirement 'guidance guarantee', Tom McPhail has warned.

Providers are suggesting they can not deliver the guidance impartially, and that it should therefore be the job of the likes of The Pensions Advisory Service (TPAS), because that would work in thei...

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