'Workplace' Isa vs Pensions: how best to encourage saving?

New pensions minister seems to have supported merging of Isas and pensions before taking government job

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Could the two principal savings schemes in the UK, the Isa and pensions, soon be merged?

The idea sounds far-fetched, but an article written by new pensions minister Baroness Ros Altmann suggests that combining the two could soon be supported by the government. In a piece for the trade magazine Employee Benefits, written before her appointment, Baroness Altmann stated that savers should be offered "other forms of saving alongside pensions" in order to encourage people to put more money aside.

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