Stop patronising Generation Y on saving

Hannah Brenton says young people's aversion to saving is not down to apathy

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Generation Y isn't engaged. Generation X is too busy playing video games. Young people must start saving for their retirement but are too distracted with student debt.

So goes the usual doom and gloom from the pensions industry about anyone below the age of 30. The argument is that young people, already laden with debt, will find it impossible to save through tra...

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