What falling share prices mean for pensions

The contrarians among you will know by now I have a bee in my bonnet about the pensions crisis and, in particular, individuals' (in)ability to properly plan for the long term, combined with the fast-approaching longevity crisis.

In fact a recent column I wrote for the FT is about precisely this, as I don the mantle of the Mr Gradgrind of the investment commentary world. In my mission to scare the living daylights out of private investors I make use of some illuminating number-crunching by pensions consultants at Redington, beautifully deployed in easy-to-understand graphics – I thoroughly recommend these for IFAs and they can be found at http://blog.redington.co.uk. Yet I contend Investment Week readers would probably be more interested in another exercise in number crunching carried out in tandem with Redington...