SMF paper highlights benefits of pot for life solution

Paper from Michael Johnson and Tom McPhail says pot for life will ‘complement’ consolidation measures

Jasmine Urquhart
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An SMF paper has outlined the benefits and implementation routes for the 'pot for life' solution
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An SMF paper has outlined the benefits and implementation routes for the 'pot for life' solution

A pension ‘pot for life’ will reduce the accumulation of small pots and “complement” existing consolidation measures, a paper from the Social Market Foundation (SMF) has said.

The paper from the thinktank, written by SMF's Michael Johnson and the Lang Cat director of public affairs Tom McPhail, proposed that member choice could be implemented in two stages to address the...

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