Essex's booming £125,000 pension pot - we're even better than leafy Surrey
BOOMING Essex has the largest average pension pot of any county, beating wealthy Surrey into second place.
A survey by the financial advisers Retirement Partnerships says Essex residents hold an average individual retirement fund of £125,478. Surrey residents, by contrast, have £123,788.
Andrew Megson, managing director of Retirement, Partnership said: “The figures reveal that the fullest pension pots are fairly concentrated in an area of southern England – Essex, Surrey, Hertfordshire and East Sussex – with Essex comfortably leading the field.
Bottom of the list was Shropshire, with an average pension pot of just £44,336. The mean average stands at £90,000, with Tyne and
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