Tag Archives: Pension Poverty

A massive failure of nerve – the sad state of our DC pensions

Last year 460,000 people bought annuities from their DC pensions, Two thirds of these people did not bother to get the best rate for their accumulated funds and as a result suffered on average a 10% lower pension than those who did. Continue reading

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Paying for a Citizen’s Pension

When we have digested auto-enrolment and introduced NEST then we can look again at the Citizen’s Pension. Continue reading

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What’s my “NEST” egg going to be worth?

While we continue to debate what a national savings scheme should be called, pensioners continue to shiver and the nation is no closer to a pensions solution for lower earners than when stakeholder pensions were first mooted 14 years ago. Continue reading

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