Over a quarter of Britons approaching 50 'have no retirement savings'

The survey of 2,001 people from NFU Mutual found 64% of respondents aged 18 to 24 also had no provision in place to keep them financially afloat in later life. Pension and retirement specialist Steve Meredith said: "People might read these findings and worry - or worse still, bury their head in the sand about their own retirement planning." The study comes in the wake of research from Prudential which found women were twice as likely as men to be unsure what their main source of income in retirement would be. The NFU Mutual survey identified 48 as the age when people truly realise ...