Automatic for the people?

The Tax Take with Brian Keegan

Short-term thinking means few of us bother with a pension. Maybe it’s time that pension contributions became opt-out

You might think that a looming prospect of penury post retirement would push every private sector worker towards making some arrangement of their own for a pension, but of course it doesn’t. We all know we have to save to provide for a comfortable retirement, but that’s not often top of the priority list.

Conventional ...