Smart Pension sets out recommendations to 'transform' sector

Smart UK and Ireland CEO Jamie Fiveash says pensions system ‘works against’ savers in many ways

Holly Roach
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Fiveash: 'Today’s savers have no role models, they are not saving enough, and the system works against them in many ways'
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Fiveash: 'Today’s savers have no role models, they are not saving enough, and the system works against them in many ways'

Smart Pension has made a series of recommendations it believes will help “transform” the pensions system by 2030.

Recommendations in the firm's report include delivering "urgent 'no regret' changes" to the system, including phasing in the removal of the lower earnings limit and change the qualifying age for au...

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