Will Wynne: How pensions will get personal in a whole new way

Normalising retirement saving

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Digital financial tools will eventually make pensions as accessible as online banking and saving for the future as compelling as a Fitbit challenge, explains Will Wynne

To any advisers dazzled, like a rabbit in headlights, by the complexity of futuristic pensions technology - or to those who scratch their heads, wondering why it is actually relevant, this article is for you. The truth is the pensions landscape is changing. The traditional pension firms, encumbered by dusty, often patchy data and limping, inadequate systems, insist automation is unnecessary frippery. Well - working this way has always worked, hasn't it, so why change? In reality, of course, auto-enrolment has brought an extra 9.6m people into saving since 2012. Many of these are worke...

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