Comment: It's been emotional

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My column last week ended with a defence of public sector defined benefit pension schemes and the hope that from this last bastion of shared risk, a future model for retirement savings might one day emerge.

Clearly this was always likely to stir up emotions as the number of private sector DB schemes continues to evaporate and the issue of the so-called "pensions apartheid" generates ever more polarise...

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