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Pension liberalisation

Open-access content Wednesday 24th September 2014 — updated 4.50pm, Tuesday 14th April 2020
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Danny Quant's letter, 'Reputation damage' (The Actuary, August 2014), gave a cogent warning of the dangers of George Osborne's pensions 'liberalisation' plans. There are echoes of the 1980s when so many members of good final salary schemes were persuaded to transfer to inferior personal pensions.

This article appeared in our October 2014 issue of The Actuary .
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