Saving for the future

Another week, another survey about how people are not saving enough for their retirement. This time it's the turn of the young (under 34-year-olds) to come under the spotlight in a Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) survey. Apparently, young people today are expecting to be able to afford a retirement jam-packed full of satellite TVs, gym membership and foreign holidays. However, they are not actually saving anything - or very little - for this idyll. Encouraging people to save is a thankless task. They might appreciate why they have to do it, but retirement can seem a long way off, a...