It's the members, stupid!

Rory Murphy asks if we are at risk of breaking the core relationship between workers and the governance of their own retirement funds

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During his first successful US presidential bid in 1992, Bill Clinton delivered the pithiest of slogans (“It’s the economy, stupid”) to encapsulate the central issue on which his campaign should focus.

Not only was Clinton proved astutely accurate in his assessment, but his four-word epithet has stood the test of time as an example of getting straight to the point, and, I would argue, is well wor...

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