Torsten Bell: Pensions industry must 'give ground' to what savers trust

Torsten Bell says what the industry is doing is a ‘triumph’, but there must be transparency

Holly Roach
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Bell: People working in the pensions industry need to “be careful” with speculation.
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Bell: People working in the pensions industry need to “be careful” with speculation.

The pensions industry must give ground to what savers trust, pensions minister Torsten Bell says.

Speaking this morning (15 October) at the Pensions UK Annual Conference in Liverpool, Bell said: "If we want people to trust the system, we need to give ground to what they're trusting." "We hav...

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