Blog: When it comes to pensions, this is the land of broken promises

We first saw ‘fairness’ come to light on the back of the Maxwell affair, following the theft by Robert Maxwell of much of the assets of the Mirror newspaper group’s pension scheme. No sooner had we got to grips with that, than we had the effective collapse of Equitable Life and the impact on a more vociferous group of retired people. In both cases the pensioners claimed it was unfair that someone, somewhere was not going to bail them out. Broken promises Whatever your opinion of either case, the basic premise is the same: for decades people paid into schemes they believed would l...