CPS Research Fellow Michael Johnson was interviewed on the current state of pensions in CityWire on Friday 22nd February 2013.
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“Forget pensions, adopt the ‘negadebt’ school of saving and keep topping up your ISA (individual savings account) if you want to have a decent retirement. These are the recommendations of pensions expert Michael Johnson, who believes ‘pensions are finished’.
Johnson practices what he preaches. Although he has a ‘very small’ self-invested personal pension (Sipp) he said ‘all of my wealth, apart from my house, is in ISAs’.
However, he is also entitled to a generous defined benefit (DB) pension from his previous life in investment banking. He is now a research fellow at the Centre for Policy Studies, the right wing think tank co-founded by Margaret Thatcher in the 1970s before she became prime minister.
This penchant for ISA saving has led for Johnson (pictured) to call for a combined pension and ISA allowance of between £30,000 and £40,000 a year. Each year savers could decide where to save and which tax break to receive.”
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Date Added: Friday 22nd February 2013
