By Kira Nickerson Stakeholder pensions are sexist and will leave hundreds of thousands of ret...
By Kira Nickerson Stakeholder pensions are sexist and will leave hundreds of thousands of retiring women disadvantaged compared to their male counterparts, according to former labour MP Oonagh McDonald, a retirement income reform campaigner. McDonald argued that as stakeholder pensions take off in the work place the move towards money purchase schemes is likely to increase. This, she said, will lead to a widening gap between the annuity income women receive as compared to men. She said: "The Retirement Income Reform Campaign has calculated that more than 500,000 working women...
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