How to get to grips with pension changes

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Colin Williams, director of corporate, Friends Provident, discusses the dramatic reshaping of the pensions industry.

If pensions A-Day in 2006 marked the industry moving towards simplification and flexibility, you might say we are fast-approaching an increasingly inevitable D-Day. As the noise of reforms, legislation and deregulation steadily builds to a crescendo, it becomes clearer how dramatic the reshaping of the industry will be; uncertainty remains, but the ongoing assault on the status quo is certain to usher in new opportunities over the next 12 months and beyond. Looming largest over the industry’s head is RDR and auto-enrolment. The debates around each of these could warrant a tome to themsel...

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