ClientView: My adviser saved my pension…and I'll never forget it

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Nicola Brittain
clock • 5 min read

A client explains how his adviser's reservations about one particular provider wound up rescuing his life savings…

John Nixon, a 78-year-old dad-of-two, reveals how his adviser, Ian Williams, saved his pension and how this cemented a long-standing friendship founded on fishing and finance, good beer and fine wine. I have known Ian for more than 20 years. We met in 1990 when I was editor of the Sussex Business Times. Ian wrote a monthly column for us offering advice on pension planning. I chatted with him regularly on the telephone and we first met face-to-face when I popped over to pick up his column. I didn't know at that point that Ian would be responsible for saving my pension. I had never r...

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