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In order to prevent future pension crises, under-pensioned and precarious workers in the modern economy need a long term and sustainable vehicle for retirement saving, but the Taylor Review missed an opportunity to address this Precarious workers – those in low paid and insecure work, some self-employed, temporary contracts, agency work and zero hours contracts (ZHCs)– have rapidly increased in … Continue reading →
5 December 2017 by Jo Grady
Categories: SPERI Comment
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Tags: automatic enrolment, Jo Grady, pensions, Taylor Review, under-pensioned
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The Conservative government’s promotion of financialisation is transforming citizenship in the UK While the New Labour-ish language of ‘financial inclusion’ and ‘asset-based welfare’ has been quietly eschewed, since 2010 the Conservative Party has continued its predecessor’s agenda around promoting more extensive and intensive participation in the financial system, through asset ownership, in order to enable individuals to play an enhanced … Continue reading →
28 August 2015 by Craig Berry
Categories: British growth crisis, Economics, Finance, Housing, SPERI Comment
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Tags: 'Help to Buy', automatic enrolment, british politics, Citizenship, finance, financialisation, George Osborne, New Labour, pensions, right to buy
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The government has a covert strategy to use pensions saving to improve Britain’s economic performance, but it may jeopardise the long-term interests of members Between 2012 and 2017 around 10 million employees will be automatically enrolled into a workplace pension scheme – most of them for the first time. We are frequently told that this is to address the UK’s … Continue reading →
7 November 2013 by Craig Berry
Categories: British growth crisis, Economics, Finance, Politics and policy, SPERI Comment
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Tags: ageing society, automatic enrolment, British investment strike, consumption, house prices, infrastructure, investment, pension scheme governance, pensions, pensions charge cap, saving
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The Taylor Review and pensions: bad news for precarious workers
In order to prevent future pension crises, under-pensioned and precarious workers in the modern economy need a long term and sustainable vehicle for retirement saving, but the Taylor Review missed an opportunity to address this Precarious workers – those in low paid and insecure work, some self-employed, temporary contracts, agency work and zero hours contracts (ZHCs)– have rapidly increased in … Continue reading →
5 December 2017 by Jo Grady
Categories: SPERI Comment | Tags: automatic enrolment, Jo Grady, pensions, Taylor Review, under-pensioned | Leave a comment