Guidance guarantee: How should it be delivered?

Helen Morrissey
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The guidance guarantee was a key part of this year's Budget. In this month's Inquiry Helen Morrissey asks Retirement Planner readers about the role of advisers in this service.

The guidance guarantee has been one of the more controversial outcomes of the recent Budget. The Chancellor's promise of free face-to-face advice at the point of retirement has got the industry in a spin. What does the guidance guarantee look like? Who will deliver it and who pays for it? In this month's Retirement Planner Inquiry, we asked our readers how these questions should be addressed. As with previous Retirement Planner Inquiry projects, we circulated the questions to our readership via email and we received 45 responses in total.  The first question we asked was whether th...

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