Pension reform fuels hopes of savings boom

The recommendations in the European Commission's 2012 White Paper that aims to boost pension saving could lead to a vast increase in assets invested to cover future outgoings to retirees. But how big the bonanza could be is, so far, anyone’s guess.

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