Less than 10pc Kenyans to retire comfortably on pension

Less than a tenth of pension schemes are providing sufficient benefits to comfortably sustain members in retirement, an actuarial consulting firm says, revealing the pain retirees undergo despite making lifetime savings while employed. According to the survey done by Actuarial Services East Africa (Actserv), retirees in defined benefit schemes have it worse than their counterparts in contributory schemes. The firm measured the adequacy of benefits using a ratio of income after retirement to income immediately before retirement, with an...