People's Pension: Long-term thinking the only way to solve our pension savings problem

Patrick Heath-Lay says the latest Pensions Commission report is a clear signal that further reform is needed

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Heath-Lay: People currently outside of the scope of retirement saving must be brought into it and millions more need to be helped to save more
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Heath-Lay: People currently outside of the scope of retirement saving must be brought into it and millions more need to be helped to save more

At a time of increasing political uncertainty, taking the long-term view about nationally important issues such as pensions may become harder, but it’s no less important.

Pension systems work over a much longer time horizon than the electoral cycle and therefore require a broad-based consensus over how they operate. In the current political and economic climate, the...

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