Report highlights disconnect between AE and Budget freedoms

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There are inconsistencies behind the behavioural assumptions underpinning auto-enrolment (AE) and the Budget flexibilities, according to a report.

Published today, the Barclays whitepaper said the Coalition's approach to addressing inertia and the shortfall in defined contribution (DC) pensions was to "legislate rather than educate". Exami...

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