Trustees: Get shipshape or be the pension industry's joke

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A lost tourist asks a local for directions and gets the reply: “Well, if I were you, I wouldn’t start from here.

This gag is supposed to be at the expense of the unhelpful local, but I think the joke is on the tourist. There are clear parallels with the pension fund landscape in the UK today: the trustees of ...

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