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AMNTco-chairman Barry Parr on collective DC

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At a recent defined contribution seminar, the pensions manager of a well-known football club said: "We all know that we have a problem building that is going to hit in 20 years time when defined contribution members retire and find they have totally inadequate pensions."

A few days later there was yet another report highlighting how members are getting poorer outcomes for their contributions than they did ten years ago after a decade of poor equity returns and weak...

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