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One More Year: are people ready for a State Pension age of 67?
How do people in their 60s feel about the rising State Pension age – and what does it mean for their finances, work, and retirement plans? We surveyed over 3,000 people and interviewed individuals directly impacted to find out.
Standard Life Centre for the Future of RetirementRead moreMarch 31, 2026
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Are Generation X in for a pension shock?
As a think tank focused on the future of retirement, we want to see more people have financial security and a decent standard of living in their later lives.
However, many people in Generation X (born between 1965 and 1980) are at risk of retiring with too little income and facing financial challenges in retirement. Many will have fallen between two pension systems, too late for widespread Defined Benefit (DB) and final salary schemes, but only having benefited from being automatically enrolled into Defined Contribution (DC) schemes for the latter part of their working lives.
Standard Life Centre for the Future of RetirementRead moreMarch 17, 2026
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Defying inertia: Employers’ role in boosting pension saving beyond the auto-enrolment default
Automatic enrolment (AE) has helped millions more savers into workplace pensions – but many are saving at the minimum rate, which we know may be insufficient for the retirement people want.
Standard Life Centre for the Future of RetirementRead moreFebruary 25, 2026
