Tech Review: Mark Polson reviews Retiready from Aegon

Our technology expert takes a look at the provider's D2C guided architecture platform...

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Mark Polson reviews Aegon's D2C guided architecture platform Retiready...

This is one of the more timely tech reviews I've written for this column. Aegon's Retiready (pron: reetye:reddy not retty:reddy, stop causing trouble) direct guided architecture platform sits at the nexus of a whole bunch of zeitgeisty issues, and so I'm looking forward to this review. I don't think you can mention Aegon and its direct strategy without talking about the potential to cut across advisers. I'm writing this in July and the news broke recently that Aegon has done what's known as a ‘reverse ferret' in the meejah trade - it has reversed its position on removing advisers as the ...

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