Andrew Tully: A long-term policy framework can fix the UK's retirement undersaving problem

'Important moment for long-term retirement policy in the UK'

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Andrew Tully reviews the latest Pensions Commission report, which he says underscores the reality that retirement undersaving is a problem that is not going away...

The recently published Pensions Commission Interim Report is essentially a 190-page problem statement that tells us exactly what we already knew: people in the UK are not saving enough for retirement. Nevertheless, it's another valuable piece of work to underscore the reality that a lack of retirement saving is a problem that simply will not go away. The findings from the report, released on 19 May, strongly reinforce many of the themes we found in our own research. Our last Retirement Confidence Index (RCI) study, published in November 2025, found just over a quarter (26%) of UK adul...

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