PLSA's Butcher: We all have a responsibility to fix the trust deficit in pensions

Stephanie Baxter
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The industry is at a "brink point" where there is an opportunity to gain savers' trust in the financial system or risk losing them, according to Richard Butcher.

Opening the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association's (PLSA) Investment Conference today (6 March) in Edinburgh, the body's chairman warned there is a trust deficit between savers and pension sch...

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