Nick Sherry: Mounting pension costs means governments 'will never stop meddling'

Michael Klimes
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Western governments will never stop interfering in pensions due to affordability challenges arising from ageing populations, the former Australian pensions minister has warned.

In a speech at a quarterly meeting of the Association of Member Nominated Trustees (AMNT) on 22 February, Sherry who was minister from 2007 to 2009, gave a stark assessment of the burden facing dev...

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