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PensionsEurope warns workplace PEPP could ‘blur the lines’ between pension pillars


By Natalie Tuck

A change in the regulations of Pan-European Personal Pension Products (PEPP) to explicitly allow them to be used for workplace pensions could “blur the lines” between the second and third pension pillars, PensionsEurope has warned.

In its position paper on the PEPP review, which is part of the European Commission’s supplementary pension package to boost uptake of pension saving, Pensions Europe said it was “dissatisfied” with the new legal provisions aimed at ensuring member states do not prevent employer contributions to a PEPP


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