UK retirement system sticks at world's 17th best as Iceland takes top spot

The UK continues to lag behind its global counterparts for retirement security, ranking 17th out of 44 nations in Natixis Investment Managers’ global retirement index.
While the placing remains the same as in 2018 - and one place higher than in 2017 - declines in health, finances and wellbeing caused its accumulated score to drop marginally from 73% to 72%. In particular,...
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