'If if ain't broke': Why pension-ISAs are better forgotten

Pensions are a long-term investment and require stability

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Alastair Conway thinks the pension-ISA is a step too far. Here he says 'pensions ain't broke, so stop trying to fix them...'

If you hoped to help influence HM Treasury's thinking on pensions tax relief and, in the process, throttle any remaining life out of the abomination that would be the PISA (pensions-ISA), then I sincerely hope you got your submissions to the consultation in on time. For fans of brevity, our submission can be summed up as follows: pensions ain't broke, so stop trying to ‘fix' them. And if we were to expand that ever so slightly it would be to add that pensions are a long-term investment and require stability. The Institute for Public Policy Research's Defining Ambitions - Shaping pe...

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