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Allow pension access through cash machines, says Friends
Around a third of consumers want to be able to contribute to their pensions via automatic teller machines (ATMs), Friends Life has said.
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Calls for pension top-ups by ATM
Millions of savers want to be able to pay into their pensions when they use a cashpoint.
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Friends Life research: One-third of respondents would use ATMs to save into pensions
One-third (32%) of employees would be interested in depositing cash or cheques into their pension scheme at an ATM, according to research by Friends Life.
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Would you tune in to Retirement TV?
Put your hand up if you’ve ever used a cash machine, own a smartphone or used the red button on your TV remote control.
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Could pensions through cash points work?
Depositing to a pension through an ATM is one of a number of ideas that have been put forward as a means of helping people to save. Read what else was suggested here.
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Britons ready for ‘pensions through ATMs’
Millions of Britons want to be able to pay into their pensions in the same way they withdraw money from 'holes in the wall'.
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ATMs, smartphones and TVs could unlock pension top-up potential
The UK’s pensions providers need to find new ways for people to top up and manage their pension payments, according to research from Friends Life.
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Demand for ATM pension top up facility
Millions of Britons want to be able to pay into their pensions using an ATM, according to research for Friends Life.
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Friends Life study reveals demand for 'pensions through ATMs
Millions of Britons want to be able to pay into their pensions as well as withdraw cash at a hole in the wall, according to independent research for Friends Life.
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'Red button' tech may help pensions
The solution to Britain's pensions crisis could be as simple as a button on a TV remote control, a think-tank says.
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How your TV remote control could boost Britain’s pension pot
The solution to Britain’s pensions crisis could be at the touch of a button of a television remote control, a think-tank has suggested.
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Pension compromise simply postpones the inevitable pain
The Institute of Fiscal Studies was busy last week. First, the IFS calculated that the Government's public-sector pension reforms will not save the Exchequer any money.
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Presenting the 'biz-res'
Granny flat of the future will be part workplace, part home as pensioners struggle to make ends meet, says think tank
They say an Englishman's home is his castle - but tha… -
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'Silver entrepreneurs' set to rise
A rise in “silver entrepreneurs” will emerge by 2020 as enterprising pensioners find new money-making schemes to help them cope with the looming pensions crisis, a think-…
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Jeff Salway on 'Biz-Res'
Ever heard of the “biz-res”? Me neither, at least not until Friends Life told me about the new hybrid home it anticipates becoming more commonplace in the years ahea…
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New tricks for old heads
The picture some pensions providers and experts are painting is one where more elderly people will be running a business via e-commerce sites, or selling items on them, in their late…
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What will the new pension reform mean to you?
Pensions reform is imminent. From October 2012 the government will be introducing auto-enrolment, phased in over the next few years.
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Pensioners 'will work into 70s'
Many of tomorrow's pensioners will become self-employed consultants, online traders or run odd-job businesses to make ends meet in retirement, according to research.
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New year's resolutions
There’s something cathartic about the start of a new year, don’t you think? Throw the horrors of the past 12 months over your shoulder and stride forward with renewed hop…
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“Wearies” to emerge from UK pensions crisis
The UK’s impending pensions crisis will result in a generation of “Wearies”, according to Friends Life, with many of tomorrow’s pensioners becoming self-emplo…
