Mercer Pensions Survey

Recorded: 3 June 2010

Mercer Ireland recently commissioned Millward Brown Lansdowne, an independent research company based in Dublin to research the attitudes of Irish people towards retirement and pensions. In the following interview Anne Downey speaks with Aisling Kennedy, a Senior Retirement Consultant with Mercer about the key findings of the research. 

The questions posed to Aisling during this recording are as follows:
 

• Can you briefly explain why Mercer wanted this research carried out?
   
• Can you give us an overview of some of the key findings from the results of this research?
   
• What did you find out about attitudes to tax relief and investments?
   
• What implications do the research results have for the recently released National Pensions Framework?
   
• Did any of the of the research surprise you in any way?