Pensions fairness to next generation demands that we adapt to new realities

People living longer raises alarming cost implications for pensions. We can’t keep ducking a serious conversation about it

The fastest way to stop people reading an article is to type the word “pensions”. But I’m going to persist today in the hope that it may help prevent you making the familiar mistake that many others made, including me, in taking little or no interest until long after we should have done.

I know, I know, it may all seem unaffordable and a long way off, even longer as successive governments push back the retirement age for drawing the state pension to reflect rising longevity and therefore rising costs. The former CBI chief John Cridland (born 1961) was appointed on Tuesday to stage another review focused on fairness in future reforms.

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