(Bloomberg View) -- The headline from the Dutch business newspaper Het Financieele Dagblad caught my eye on Twitter a few weeks ago: 'America is the example of how not to do pensions.'

The quote was from an interview with Angelien Kemna, who stepped down on Nov. 1 from the top finance job at APG Groep NV, which manages the Netherlands’ biggest (and world’s fifth-biggest) pension fund.

After reading it, it struck me that it might be useful to let U.S. readers know what one of the leading figures on the global pension scene thought was wrong with the way this country handles retirement savings.

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