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Behavioural Interventions Series: Paper Three Committed, Disengaged, Suspicious or Falsely Secure - What type of pension saver are you?

2017-02-21T11:34:00Z By Columbia Threadneedle Investments

Saving for retirement is for most a complex and inaccessible topic, which is perhaps why many people switch off rather than engage with it head-on.

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Mind the gap: Overcoming the cognitive barriers to saving for retirement

2016-09-06T13:52:00Z By Columbia Threadneedle Investments

In this paper, Chris Wagstaff considers how reasonably simple behavioural interventions can be used by policymakers, regulators and the pensions community to improve saving decisions.

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[Summary] What constitutes a first class pensions system? Adopting a global perspective of what defines a good retirement outcome

2016-09-06T12:49:00Z By Columbia Threadneedle Investments

In this paper, Chris Wagstaff takes a comprehensive look at pension systems worldwide; identifying those enduring principles with universal application that characterise an ideal pensions system and ultimately contribute to that all-important holy grail: generating a comfortable retirement for savers.

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[Full paper] What constitutes a first class pensions system? Adopting a global perspective of what defines a good retirement outcome

2016-09-06T12:43:00Z By Columbia Threadneedle Investments

In this paper, Chris Wagstaff takes a comprehensive look at pension systems worldwide; identifying those enduring principles with universal application that characterise an ideal pensions system and ultimately contribute to that all-important holy grail: generating a comfortable retirement for savers.