The FT reports on how UK pensions compare with other countries. A recent study comparing 25 international retirement systems placed the UK in ninth position.

UK Pensions comparison Survey

This is an improvement on an previous years results but still a long way behind Denmark, which ranks top and has done so  for a number of years. Click here to read the

The survey, which examined pension systems covering 58 per cent of the world’s population makes very interesting reading and one commentator points out that the new pension freedoms may not result in increasing the adequacy of pension provision when it is most needed with and increasing number of older pensionable population.