The personal pensions stampede

Disney, Richard and Whitehouse, Edward (1992): The personal pensions stampede. Published in: (May 1992)

Abstract

While personal-pension mis-selling dominated the headlines, just as costly was the over-compensation offered to younger workers to contract out of the state scheme into personal pensions. The proposal for age-related rebates outlined in this book was later taken up by the government.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: pension; personal pensions; retirement
• Subjects: H - Public Economics > H5 - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies > H55 - Social Security and Public Pensions; G - Financial Economics > G2 - Financial Institutions and Services > G23 - Non-bank Financial Institutions ; Financial Instruments ; Institutional Investors

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