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Simon O'Connor talks to Helen Morrissey about how the at-retirement market is developing

How have you seen the at-retirement marketplace evolve? What are the main challenges that you think it faces? Increasing longevity will have a huge impact on the at-retirement market and the challenge we face is to find new solutions to meet the changing needs of retired people. Over recent years we have seen both the State pension and company schemes pay lower levels of benefits while individuals are told they have to save more and carry the investment risk. Couple this with the fact that we can generally expect to be retired for longer and the challenge is to ensure that we have susta...

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