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How do people think about later life when making workplace pension saving decisions?

September 23, 2020

by Dr Hayley James, Prof Debora Price and Dr Tine Buffel How people save for later life has become a …

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Pensions on divorce: why practice needs to change

December 5, 2019

Debora Price is a Professor of Social Gerontology at the University of Manchester and a member of the Pension Advisory …

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The Pension Advisory Group: developing guidance on pensions on divorce

October 20, 2017

This blog is about an issue very close to my heart.  Indeed, my concern about the treatment of pensions on divorce was what took me from my first career as a barrister at Coram Chambers to my second as a social gerontologist.  I am very pleased to report, therefore, that under the leadership and joint chairmanship of Mr Justice Francis and His Honour Judge Edward Hess, the “Pension Advisory Group” (“PAG”) has been formed.

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Ethnicity and pensions: a continuing disadvantage?

May 18, 2016

Individuals from certain minority ethnic groups in the UK, such as those from a Pakistani and Bangladeshi background, are among …

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One big holiday? questioning travel plans after retirement

June 12, 2015

Were you to read the recent media coverage of UK pension reform, you’d be forgiven for thinking those approaching retirement …

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The Incoherence Now Underlying UK Pensions Policy

March 16, 2015

Originally posted on gerontologyuk:
Pensions policy in the UK has become remarkably incoherent. We are bombarded with pension reforms, but…

Pensions: Advice? Guidance? Does it Matter?

August 4, 2014

Originally posted on gerontologyuk:
I attended the excellent Pensions Play Pen monthly pensions discussion today, the group founded and generally…

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