Open-minded on women's pensions problem

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Adair Turner discusses meeting the pension needs of women, raising the state pension age, and asks if the current tax system is too weighted towards the wealthy

Adair Turner may be closely guarding the contents of his long-awaited second report on the UK pensions arena but the chairman of the Pensions Commission has not been shy in voicing his opinions about the existing system. In the first part of his interview with Investment Week, which appeared in the 4 July issue, Turner, one of three Government-appointed pensions commissioners, serving alongside trade unionist Jeannie Drake and academic John Hills, dismissed the Sandler suite of low-cost products and said a full consensus on resolving the pensions gap is not possible. In part two he tackle...

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