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Fidelity's Peter Hicks tells Helen Morrissey about the recently launched Fidelity Retirement Funds

Ensuring clients have saved enough to fund a comfortable retirement is a key concern for advisers. Not only should care be taken in ensuring that the client saves enough money but the adviser is also responsible for exposing the client to the optimum range of assets to match their changing circumstances. Increasing longevity is a major issue and people's retirement funds may have to last them 30 years so sufficient amounts need to be saved to maintain the client throughout this time. The launch of the Fidelity Retirement Funds in April 2007 aims to address these issues. This suite of prod...

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