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The pensions crisis resolved
 — a note on a Round Table held on 24 February 2005
Corporate AuthorCityForum; Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation (CSFI)
PublisherCityForum, Norton St Philip, Bath, 2005
Pages12 pp
SourceCityForum Ltd., Ringwell Lane, Norton St Philip, Bath BA2 7NZ. enquiries@cityforum.biz
KeywordsPensions ; Conference proceedings.
AnnotationThe most important area of agreement at this Round Table was that the Pensions Commission chair, Adair Turner "was asked the wrong question". Rather, the key issue on tackling the UK pensions problem is not how to encourage private savings, it is how to salvage the state system, which speakers variously described as "broken beyond repair, grossly inadequate, and hideously complex". There was also general agreement that means testing had to go, and on the attractiveness of a citizens' pension, if not on its funding. Two further session examined state pension reform proposals and an estimation of what a good basic pension platform would make possible in private provision; and what the private sector could do in the light of pensions reform. (RH).
Accession NumberCPA-050421207 B
ClassmarkJJ: 6M

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