Using three major UK pension reforms as natural experiments we investigate the relationship between pension saving and discretionary private savings.

In this paper we use the two waves of the British Retirement Survey (1988/89 and 1994) to quantify the relationship between socio-economic status and health outcomes.

In this paper we describe the household wealth distribution in the US and UK, and compare both wealth inequality and the form in which wealth is held.

This paper presents a detailed analysis of the composition of household portfolios, using both aggregate and micro-data.

This note looks at the kind of information people have on saving and how this effects their decisions to invest in the future. We also ask what policies could be used to provide people with clear information which they trust.

The government published its first plans for stakeholder pensions in December 1998. Since then more flesh has been put on the bones with the publication of six disussion papers each focusing on a different aspects of stakeholder pensions -the minimum standards, the employer access requirement, the clearing arrangements, regulation, advice and information, governance and the tax regime. This note summarises - and critically appraises - the government's proposals